One of London Drugs’ main green objectives is to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. This is no small task. (If you have taken on the challenge of recycling in your own home, imagine doing it for an entire retail store!) Fortunately, our employees are up to the challenge, and all of our stores are now diverting a significant amount of waste from landfills. Two of our BC stores, Coquitlam and Delta, have set the bar quite high indeed, each diverting an impressive 88% of their waste to recycling programs.
“It is truly a team effort to ensure that we recycle and re-use.” Says one Coquitlam employee. “We have several “green champions” within the store, who assist in separation of waste and recycled materials before shipping to ensure that nothing “gets through”. In particular, our receivers are highly educated in this process and have taken personal ownership of our recycling system.”
But this recycling achievement is more than just a feel-good story. According to calculations from our waste hauling partner, each store has conserved the equivalent of over 600 mature trees, saved over 200,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by over 88 metric tonnes.
That’s a pretty good grade.
