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Regulars
3 Foreword Taking
responsibility
7 Column Caroline Spelman: Reindustrialising the throwaway society
8 News 16 EU News
66 Letters to the editor
INTERVIEW 18 Perfect circles: Cradle to Cradle author Michael Braungart on designing circular economies
SPOTLIGHT 22 Fare game: Charlotte Owen visits UK food charity FareShare
COVER STORY 28 Keeping track: Retail Environment explores how an advent of new supply chain technologies is helping retailers secure both reputation and profit
ENERGY 32 Switching on to energy savings: Amy North explores how the retail sector is cranking up energy efficiency measures
36 Fuelling opinion: Retailers’ relationship with opinion-splitting biofuels
RESOURCES 40 Putting a price on nature: Richard Hands, CEO of ACE UK explains how the retail sector is getting to grips with the term natural capital 45 Progress on packaging: Retailers’ achievements with the market based mechanism known as the packaging waste recovery note system (PRNs)
DESIGN 48 Mark of success: Amy North examines the power of labelling 52 Stepping out: from phasing out chemicals to using
sustainable timber, flooring is transforming
LOGISTICS 56 Signed, sealed and delivered: Amy North on online retailers’ environmental impact 60 Next generation warehouses: How the hubs of the retail sector are mitigating their environmental impacts
POLICY 63 A roundup of the latest policies to affect the retail sector
NEW TECHNOLOGY 64 The latest green technology on the market and in development
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