Sustainable Products & services

You can be confident in Banner as a responsible supplier

At Banner, we help make sustainable shopping easier for our customers.

Our Green Choice symbol featured in our catalogues and online shop, helps our customers to quickly identify and purchase products that are less harmful to the worlds resources.

What’s more, our B Green catalogue brings all our sustainable products together in one location. 

Experienced
& expert team

The environment and sustainability are key priorities of our CSR & procurement functions. We carefully consider the impacts of manufacture, distribution, product use and disposal and take steps to minimise this.

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Our Evolution
CSR strategy

We operate across four key pillars, Our Natural Environment, Our Supply Chain, Our Communities and Our People. These help us to deliver social value and impact for our customers, community, suppliers and employees.

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Helping our local
communities

To support those less fortunate than ourselves, we donate employee time, alongside products and finance via fundraising. We also provide employment and apprenticeship opportunities.

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Sustainability case studies

Harrods Sustainability Solution

In collaboration with Kimberly-Clark Professional: UK and Ireland, we provided a total paper hand towel sustainability solution by introducing the Kimberly Clark’s RightCycle™ service, along with replacing its hand towel product with a new sustainable alternative.

Banner Reduces Environmental Impact

As part of a wider review of its service offering, Banner presented a proposal to a leading Facilities Management provider to show how, by making changes to the way it purchased workplace supplies, several environmental and sustainable benefits could be achieved.

Introducing Smaller Cardboard Packaging

Hybrid home working, along with lead-time issues and product shortages has meant an increase in small order volumes, creating a host of inefficiencies within operations. The simple change of introducing a smaller sized cardboard box has resulted in a variety of wins.

 

Sustainability case studies

Sustainability news from the Banner blog

Supporting the Trees for Schools Initiative

The sun came out for us at the 2022 tree planting ceremony organised by Tree Appeal and Edding UK. As Edding UK’s partner, Banner staff got their hands dirty as part of the tree-planting team at Ryecroft Academy in Leeds.

Taking a step towards fleet decarbonisation

We’re committed to reducing our carbon footprint, and the latest arrival of Truline’s four all-electric vans is another step in our decarbonisation journey towards our target of a Net Zero delivery fleet by 2027.

Banner are aiming to be net zero by 2030

This aggressive and challenging target is supported by detailed opportunity planning and a huge collaborative effort across our estate of operations. Forming part of the Banner Evolution CSR Strategies Net Zero Target.

We’re pleased to have a robust CSR strategy in place. This operates across four key pillars, Our Natural Environment, Our Supply Chain, Our Communities and Our People. These help us to deliver social value and impact for our customers, community, suppliers and employees. Click below to see the latest examples of our achievements in each area. 

Our Environment

Our People

Our Community

Our Supply Chain