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• Carbon
• Energy
• Renewables
• Water
• Waste
• Travel
• Exhibition
• Biodiversity
• Data

In 2007 we worked with Business in the Community and our local property management teams to launch a Sustainability Exhibition as part of our drive to reduce water, waste and energy use. The exhibition aims to provide practical information that will help everyone to reduce their carbon footprint and make good environmental choices.

The exhibition has already toured 13 of our properties, giving over five million people the opportunity to see the environmental messages. Properties visited in 2007/08 included our Head Office, York House, as well as:

• Our office estates at Broadgate and Regent’s Place in London
• Our shopping parks at Birstall near Leeds, Broughton near Chester, Fort Kinnaird near Edinburgh, Glasgow Fort, New Mersey near Liverpool, Parkgate near Rotherham and Teesside in Stockton-on-Tees
• Our shopping centres at Eastgate in Basildon, Meadowhall near Sheffield and the Peacocks in Woking
• Our joint venture shopping centre with Tesco at Kingston in Milton Keynes.

The exhibition will continue to tour properties in 2008/09, including Beaumont Leys Shopping Centre in Leicester, Serpentine Green Shopping Centre in Peterborough and St Stephen’s Shopping Centre in Kingston-upon-Hull.

Surveys carried out at each venue show that 96% of people rated reducing environmental impact as very important, or important for companies to do, and that reducing energy use and increasing recycling are considered the two most important environmental initiatives.

As a result of viewing the exhibition, over 1,650 shoppers and visitors have undertaken to improve their own environmental impacts:

• 37% plan to install water saving devices which could save more than 1.2 million litres annually - enough for almost 50,000 dishwasher cycles (based on each person installing a ‘save-a-flush’ device in their home cistern).
• 19% pledged to start using public transport more which could reduce carbon emissions by over 100 tonnes a year (based on each person travelling 50km by bus rather than medium-sized car per week over the course of a year).
• 22% intend to lower their thermostat which could save 110 tonnes of carbon emissions a year, equivalent to nearly 10,000 return train journeys from London to Paris (based on a 300 kilogram carbon saving per annum per household).

This exhibition has been a fantastic opportunity to bring shoppers’ attention to the initiatives in our recently launched Plan A. Having Stuart Rose in our store was a great boost to morale.

Nichola Passfield, Store Manager, M&S Meadowhall

 

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