ISO 14001: 2015 - Environmental Management at Tesco

Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AT TESCO
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AT TESCO
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AT TESCO1
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................6

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AT TESCO2
Introduction
ISO 14001: 2015 is the INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR
STANDARDIZATION that discusses about all the requirements of framework for the purpose of
establishing an Environment management system that is effective. It is necessary to implement
and comply with the requirements of ISO 14001: 2015 in order to reduce the environmental
impacts of the organizations (Da Fonseca 2015). The company selected for the purpose of this
study is TESCO that is a retailer of general merchandise and groceries. TESCO foods comply
with the standards of ISO 14001: 2015 in order to carry out its activities in an environmental
friendly way (Tesco.com 2019). Self-reflection refer to the ability of an individual to learn from
their past experience for the purpose of making application of the same in future. The main aim
of the paper is to show the way TESCO complied managed to implement ISO 14001: 2015 into
its business and also reflection upon these figures and data in order to understand the benefits of
applying a sustainable business approach.
Discussion
TESCO is presently complying with the standards of ISO 14001: 2015, in its food and
non-food site and moreover it also has the “ENVIRONMENT, WATER AND WASTE
MANAGEMENT” in case the site fails to comply with the standards. Environmental policies are
given in the “ENVIRONMENT, WATER AND WASTE MANAGEMENT”. Moreover TESCO
has made an announcement about removing all plastic material from its products by the end of
2020. The same has been announced in the TESCO stores in UK in order to comply with the ISO
14001: 2015 (Fonsec and Domingues 2018). The same plan has been announced as a prat of the
present 4 R strategy of TESCO. According to the 4 R strategy of TESCO that includes- reduce,