Tag: Marks & Spencer

Making it easier to recycle ‘empties’ M&S introduces Beauty Takeback Scheme

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer has recently announced its partnership with beauty recycling experts, HANDLE, to launch a Beauty Takeback Scheme in over 40 stores across the UK. The scheme will enable hard to recycle beauty packaging materials and components that commonly end up in landfill to be recycled and turned into new packaging and products. Packaging is one of the biggest sustainability challenges facing the beauty industry; 120 billion units of packaging are produced globally every year*, however, recycling rate estimates range from 9-50%** in the UK due to certain packaging…

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M&S removes use by dates on ‘too good to waste’ RSPCA Assured fresh milk

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer has removed ‘Use By’ dates across its RSPCA Assured Select Farms British and organic fresh milk as part of its commitment to halving food waste by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2040. The change, which is being rolled out across all M&S UK stores from this week, will see ‘Use By’ dates on fresh milk replaced with ‘Best Before’ dates. M&S is the first retailer to offer ‘Best Before’ labelling on fully recyclable milk bottles, following the removal of coloured plastic caps on milk earlier this…

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M&S Expands Food Waste Scheme Turning Surplus Loaves Into Frozen Garlic Bread To 125 More Stores

Stuart Mitchell

M&S is expanding its frozen garlic bread food waste initiative to an additional 125 stores this April. At the end of each day, unsold baguettes and boules – baked in-store daily – are prepared and filled with garlic butter, and then sold as frozen garlic bread from £1, with an extended shelf life of 30 days. The scheme is currently live in 253 stores and launched in 2020 following a successful trial. Since then, M&S has sold 2.1m of the re-purposed loaves with the best-selling store M&S Nottingham Giltbrook. Due…

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M&S is the first major retailer to roll out reduced packaging initiative for click & collect orders following successful customer trial

Stuart Mitchell

M&S has stepped-up its commitment to reduce its use of plastic packaging with the announcement that it is rolling out a new ‘BYOB’ – Bring Your Own Bag – click & connect initiative to 251 of its stores. The initiative takes away the need for the traditional plastic carrier across online orders that are picked and packed at the collection store by asking customers to bring their own bag. M&S is the first large retailer to adopt this approach which will save 10 million units of plastic annually.  The roll-out…

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M&S teams up with Breast Cancer Now to raise vital awareness of signs and symptoms of breast cancer in its fitting rooms

Stuart Mitchell

In February, M&S rolled out signage to more than 1,500 fitting rooms with guidance on the signs and symptoms of breast cancer to raise awareness among its 22 million Clothing & Home customers. As the UK’s biggest bra retailer – last year M&S sold 21 million bras – the signage will be seen by millions of people every year and situated in every cubicle in the women’s and lingerie fitting rooms at 110 stores across the UK. Each week M&S’ 2,000 trained Bra Fitters fit more than 17,000 customers –…

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