Boots launches new sustainability scheme where customers can recycle their empties and get rewarded for it

Boots champions reducing plastic waste in all areas of the business and is taking further steps to becoming more sustainable by launching a new recycling scheme. The scheme encourages customers to bring back empty hard-to-recycle products (even from brands not stocked at Boots) and get rewarded for it. In partnership with No7, the new scheme will be available in 50 Boots UK stores across the country from 24 September and is the first on the market to use Scan2Recycle technology. Customers can simply access the technology via a dedicated Boots…

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Boots UK partners with FareShare to tackle period poverty in Scotland

Boots UK has announced a new partnership with FareShare to support a Scottish project that offers sanitary products for women and girls on low incomes. Period poverty is a real issue in the UK. A 2018 survey by Young Scot and Scottish Government found that in the last year around one in four (26%) survey respondents at school, college or university had struggled to access sanitary products. Of those, 60% couldn’t access the product they needed, and nearly three quarters (71%) had to ask someone else for a tampon or…

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