Sustainability

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Sustainability

Environmental sustainability
• Evironmental sustainability can be determined to be the rates of
renewable resource harvest, non renewable, harvest and pollution
creation depletion that it can be continued indefinitely.
• Triple Bottom Line framework states that activities and initiatives
that are taken in order to satisfy economical, social and
environmental responsibilities are called sustainability.

Woolworths
• Turn over: AUD $ 59 billion (2016)
• Products: Sells groceries like packed
foods, meat, fruits, etc. Health and
beauty, dairy, egg and fridge.
• Geographical location: Multinational
• Industry: Retail
• Employees: 175,000

Challenges faced by company.
• The organization is offering green products
• To maintain freshness of products along with maintaining
sustainability of environment they are considering various steps
Challenges
• Infrastructural changes
• Climatic changes
• Controlling carbon footprints

Environmental sustainability initiative of
Woolworth
• Use waste material for land filling: Through land filling company
controlls pollution at great extend.
• Implements recycle for packing process: It helps in reducing
consumption of raw material and maintains ecological balance.

Environmental sustainability initiative of
Woolworth
• Reduced carbon production at the rate of 10% per year:
Woolworth have opened outlet at per square meter, due to which
transportation process get reduced.
• Reduced nitrogen production by 15% through innovative
strategies: In this process all the electrical products are replaced by
the renewable energy sources.

Woolworths’ Environmental
Sustainability Report Card
• ALDI GmbH & Co.KG Essen is the biggest competitor of
Woolworth.
• They are considering photovoltaic system as energy sources.
• They are offering recycled and reusable carrier bags.

REFERENCES
Fang, K. and et.al., 2015. Understanding the complementary linkages
between environmental footprints and planetary boundaries in a
footprint–boundary environmental sustainability assessment
framework. Ecological Economics. 114. pp.218-226.
Environment and sustainability. 2017. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.woolworthsgroup.com.au/page/community-and-
responsibility/group-responsibility/environment>. [Accessed on
28th September 2017].