Reducing Plastic: Sustainable Business Practices of Sainsbury's

Managing
Sustainability

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Part B...............................................................................................................................................3
background of sustainable business operations......................................................................3
Part C...............................................................................................................................................5
Outline the particular areas of concern related to Sainsbury’s...............................................5
Part D...............................................................................................................................................6
alternative business practice...................................................................................................6
Part E................................................................................................................................................7
Recommendations..................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The report aims to analyse the sustainable business practices in an organisation within the area of
reducing plastic. A business is required to work on maintain a brand name into market. It
includes corporate social responsibility, welfare of environment and managing society (Hong and
et.al., 2019). It is all about being responsible and ethical towards the society and look for
protecting the environment, The business should not only focus on their profits but also concern
about future stability (Axon, and Darton, 2021). This report is going top work on the functions
of Sainsbury's regarding their sustainable performance. There will be discussion about how
reducing waste can be an issue and how it could impact on the company profitability. Also, there
will be some alternative practices an recommendation provided to cope up with the challenge.
MAIN BODY
Part B
background of sustainable business operations
The sustainable business operations is termed as vital element for business success into
market. Sustainability refers to making those business practices which are suitable and beneficial
for the environment and society. Due to having large business practices, business indulge in
using heavy machineries, plastic consumption, water usage, transportation and pollution.
Therefore, a business could only sustain for long time in the market by reducing carbon
footprints and give rise to sustainable development. Sustainable business operations leads to
impact on the key behaviour and responsibility of the organisation (Alikhani, Torabi, and Altay,
2019). It is also regarded as how a business is able to maintain business practices which will not
creates any future risk. This shows that, the organisation must use the resources effectively so
that it might not scare in the future. They are responsible for the future development of society in
both positive and negative ways. Sainsbury's is leading supermarket of UK which sells varieties
of goods in foods, clothings and accessorial. The company comes under the largest store of
England that has its operations across all over UK. Sainsburuy's has its mission to provide tasty
and healthy food products for every class of customer to experience the best taste. The company
is responsible towards their planet by serving quality goods which drive last long and each
individual gets healthy living.