Our Environment

Banner has environmental sustainability at the heart of our decision making. The planet needs urgent care and recognition of this fact has never been higher on the agenda. To achieve long-lasting change, we are working collaboratively across operations, employees, supply chain and customers, challenging everyone to make a stand to protect our natural environment for the security of future generations.

Our Themes

Carbon Neutral by 2035

Procured Plastic Free

Protect the Natural Environment

Our environment

Preserve & protect: What we’re doing

The environmental footprint of our business is large. Our action to mitigate this is quite simple: to scope out changes that can be made and work out how to implement them. Each of our environmental themes is supported by a number of targets, applicable in different ways across our business – some require longer term investigation and business cases whilst others are policy led and can be implemented with the assistance of our customers, suppliers or employees. We look forward to bringing you regular news of our success and challenges here.

Our B Green catalogue makes sustainable procurement simpler for customers. It includes a vast range of sustainable alternative products in categories from cleaning and catering to office supplies and printers.

The Catalogue also features a guide to understanding all the different product sustainability accreditations and covers what to look for to determine if products that don’t have any accreditations are still green and worth looking into

Procured Plastic Free

Plastic has received significant bad press and there is a raft of new legislation around it, but not all plastics are bad. Plastic serves many purposes and when designed for reuse or recycling, provides excellent materials for the circular economy, but currently too much of it ends up in incineration waste streams, especially from businesses. This is why at Banner, we are taking a stance to remove ‘added’ plastics within our operations. We are scoping suitable alternatives wherever possible and of course working with our suppliers to eliminate unnecessary plastic from packaging around their products.

Void Fill

As part of our aim to reduce single-use plastics by 30% before 2020, Banner has introduced eco-friendly packages throughout its warehouses. The new packaging fill of recycled cardboard is used for small pick parcels, of which we deliver 6,000 a week.