Our environment

We care about the environment. We make every effort to reduce our impact on the environment and to promote good environmental practice.
Cows grazing on the Leckford Estate
Waitrose champions sustainable farming on the Leckford Estate in Hampshire

With Waitrose's acquisitions and new developments, and John Lewis's ambitious retail development plan, our business expansion presents an environmental challenge. We aim to minimise the environmental impact of our buildings, by ensuring they are all built responsibly and operate sustainably.

Our approach involves:

We regularly review our business practices, for example, to identify additional ways to be more energy efficient, for which our efforts have helped us to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard.

'The Carbon Trust Standard gives us third-party recognition that we're doing well at reducing our energy consumption and the associated carbon emissions. It externally validates all the good work we've done.'

Toby Marlow, Engineering Manager, Waitrose

Related

  • Key performance data
    Measuring and reporting our CSR progress and performance.

  • CSR reports
    Our CSR performance is publicly reported. Read our current and past reports.

  • What you can do
    Reduce your impact on the natural environment by adopting good environmental practices both at work and at home.