MAKING A
difference
Top tips to make your store eco-friendly and sustainable by Nina Buckley, principal director at Can’t Find It?.
T
he concept is simple enough–
plastic waste has accumulated in our oceans, the
reduce, reuse, recycle. But where
best guess in 2015 was estimated to be around
do you start? There is a lot of
150 million metric tons.
information (and misinformation) out
If all else stays the same this accumulation
there and with almost every brand scrambling to
will become 600 million tons by 2040. The
make themselves ‘green’, it can often be difficult
effect on our health and our food supply will
to know what to believe and where to begin.
be devastating, not to mention the effect on
Let’s look at some key areas where you can make a really big difference. The single most important thing you can do
that of the world’s wildlife, ocean life and the environment. Almost every state and territory in Australia has
today is to start reducing the packaging and
now signed up to not use single use plastic bags
plastic waste your store creates and/or sends to
for your customers’ purchases, which is fantastic,
landfill. While no one knows exactly how much
but what do you do with all the plastic that the
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