COMMITMENTS AND PROGRESS
Our key initiatives under the environmental pillar of our programme include organic and free-range products, healthy eating choices, protection of biodiversity, animal welfare, water management, waste management and the reduction of packaging. We continue to promote environmentally sound farming methods, thereby ensuring that our conventional produce farmers migrate to environmentally sensitive farming methods and organic production.
| Commitment | 2010 | 2009 | By 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Relative water reduction stores | 27.3% | 12% | 30% relative reduction |
| Water reduction head office complex | 24% | 20% (restated) | 30% reduction |
| Organic food sales (excluding farming for the future) | R631m | R500m | R1 billion |
| Organic and sustainable fibre clothing sales | R608m | R400m | R1 billion |
| Farming for the future compliance levels | 68.4% | Benchmark year | 85% |
| Woolworths wine supplier's membership of Biodiversity and Wine Initiative (BWI) | 70% | 55% | 100% |
| Foods packaging reduction | 660 tons | 320 tons | 2 000 (20% reduction) |
| Recyclability of foods packaging | 66% | 50% | 90% |
| Recycled content in foods packaging | 24% | 23% | 25% |
| Recycling symbols on foods packaging | 83% | 79% | 90% |
| Reusable bag sales (no. of bags) | 920000 | 900 000 | 1 000 000 |
| Reduction in plastic bag sales per transaction (benchmark 1.33) | .995 | 1.17 | 1 |
| Woolworths recycling facilities | 8 | 0 (except for CFL recycling in store) | 50 |
| % waste-to-landfill from distribution operations | 16% | 33% | 0 |