Clothes recycling & green energy
Our Impact
Learn more about our actions that are helping toward protecting our planet.
Recycle Your Fashion
Our ambitious sustainability programme, EVOLVE, is made up of six focus areas to ensure dedicated, real change. As part of the Conscious Consumption sector (where we’re committed to water management, waste stream reduction and facilitating clothes recycling and reuse, we’ve introduced a new global scheme called Recycle Your Fashion.
The activity is part of Our Impact sustainability pillar, designed to help protect the planet and our environment as we strive to create an extraordinary world for us to live in now and for future generations.
The Recycle Your Fashion initiative launches at all Outlets because we have a responsibility, as a luxury retail business, to help fashion lovers reuse and recycle apparel. Now, our guests have a facility to dispose of pre-loved items responsibly, knowing they will be reused or recycled. Many of us have unworn items going to waste at the back of our wardrobes, and now they can be cleared out and brought to McArthurGlen.
There are designated collection boxes at each of our centres. And visitors receive a 10% off participation voucher as a “thank you” for getting involved
Working in collaboration with local partners, the donated clothes and shoes will be inspected and sorted – and then reused or recycled to ensure the continuation of the life of the apparel and promote a more circular economy.
100% Green Energy
Another scheme under Our Impact pillar, within the Climate Action focus area, is our portfolio-wide commitment to sourcing 100% green electricity – where McArthurGlen directly procures the electricity.
Our principles in the Climate Action sector include our target of Net Zero by 2040, reducing energy demand, increasing on-site renewables and increasing biodiversity. Each commitment requires dedicated actions to make them a reality and so protect our natural world. Specifically, as we are striving to reduce our carbon emissions in support of the 2040 Net Zero ambitions.
Our 100% green electricity commitment means that the electricity is generated from renewable sources including solar or wind. As well as sourcing this more sustainable energy, McArthurGlen is building the infrastructure to actually produce electricity on-site at our Outlets too. Already, many of our destinations have installed solar panels and we continue to expand this to generate as much electricity as we can on-site.
Ultimately, we strive for self-sufficiency in electricity demand across all of our centres. Self-sufficiency will ensure that we reduce our electricity demand on the grid, which reduces the pollution that is emitted from non-renewable sources of energy.
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