OUR ZERO WASTE PROJECT WILL TURN LEROY MERLIN STORE WASTE INTO EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL AND FURNITURE
Our new Zero Waste project once again demonstrates the commitment of Shop&Roll Group to the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda with an innovative initiative: making the most of the renewal of display profiles at home improvement leader Leroy Merlin to give them a second life as tools for environmental workshops in schools and as benches for resting.
More than 800 kilos of PVC have been recovered to manufacture 2,400 keyrings for the participants in Leroy Merlin’s Hazlo Verde educational programme and two benches for Shop&Roll’s sites, in Madrid and Zaragoza. This Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative entails an estimated saving of 85-90% in greenhouse gas emissions in the production of material.
At Shop&Roll we offer the most complete and flexible range of holders for placing and communicating the electronic shelf label, and we have been the supplier chosen by Leroy Merlin to roll it out across all of its stores. Taking advantage of this change, the two companies have set up this circular economy collaboration.
From Shop&Roll we have sent approximately 800 kilos of the PVC profiles removed from the stores in Gandía and Xàtiva (Valencia) to the nearby recycling centre CM Plastik, guaranteeing a minimum impact on transport and a traceability certificate. There they have been turned into keyrings to be handed out at the ninth edition of Leroy Merlin’s Hazlo Verde educational action programme, which offers workshops for Primary, Secondary and Basic Vocational Training students to develop sustainable and respectful behaviours.
We have also produced two benches that will be installed at the Shop&Roll sites, in Villanueva de Gállego (Zaragoza) and Rivas-Vaciamadrid (Madrid), with the inscription “The best waste is the one that is not generated. Bench made from recovered profiles”. In this way, at Shop&Roll we remind all our workers and visitors of our message on sustainability.
We continue to move forward with the goal of extending sustainability to all of our daily work and helping our customers and consumers to also be more sustainable.
