Communicating best practice to tenants
- To overcome any barriers experienced with your tenants, increase the level of awareness about the waste minimisation programme. Provide guidance to help tenants assess their potential to achieve cost savings, by telling tenants about the free help available from Envirowise and giving all tenants a copy of Profiting from Waste Reduction in Retail Stores GG325.
- Add environmental best practice to the tenant handbook.
- Increase awareness of environmental issues.
Campaigns to raise awareness could include:
- Quarterly newsletters for tenants with a regular feature on waste minimisation initiatives and the benefits achieved.
- Having waste minimisation on the agenda for management meetings with tenant representatives.
- Make the free help from Envirowise known to your tenants.
Provide incentives
A key cost driver for tenants is the service charge paid to the facilities management company or property owner.
Incentives could include:
- Reducing service charges to reflect the reduction in the shopping centre's overall waste management costs.
- Offering tenants increased expenditure on promoting the shopping centre.
Retail's main waste stream: packaging and solids