d34 SUSTAINABILITY / THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY BECOMING PLANET POSITIVE
In June last year, IKEA announced new commitments to becoming a fully circular business. “Our ambition is to become people and planet positive by 2030 while growing the IKEA business,” said Inter IKEA Group CEO, Torbjörn Lööf. “Through our size and reach we have the opportunity to inspire and enable more than one billion people to live better lives, within the limits of the planet.”
There are a number of firm commitments that IKEA has made in order to reach this goal. For example, all IKEA products will be designed according to new circular principles, with the goal to only use renewable and recycled materials. The intention is to become climate positive and reduce the total IKEA climate footprint by an average of 70% per product as well as achieving zero emissions home deliveries by 2025. “Transforming IKEA into a
‘circular’ business is one of our biggest ambitions and challenges for the future. It’s about smarter use of resources and from the very beginning, designing products so they can be repurposed, repaired, reused, resold or recycled in any other way. It requires an innovative mind-set, working together with many stakeholders”, says Peter van der Poel, Managing Director, Range & Supply, Inter IKEA Group.
There are a number of examples of what IKEA is already doing to reach its goal. There are recovery teams in every store repairing and re-packaging products that have been damaged in transit, so that they can be sold and not go to waste. In 2018, IKEA handled over one million orders of spare parts to help repair products for a longer life. There are also second life return options where customers can return a wide
variety of products, including furniture, to many IKEA stores for resale or donation to charity. Last year, in the UK, 12,240 sofas, beds and appliances were recovered for reuse and recycling through this service.
The company is also re- evaluating its value chain, using materials that are renewable, recycled and from more sustainable sources, in order to make more from less. “We need to find alternatives for a circular system,” says Anna Granath, Product Developer at IKEA. “What we do has a big impact on the environment because IKEA works with large quantities. With the new material, we can avoid using an oil- based plastic and produce more sustainably, without having to compromise quality, form or price.”
Above: Anna Granath, Product Developer at
IKEA.Below: Torbjîrn Lîîf CEO Inter IKEA Group
IKEA’s Kungsbacka kitchen fronts are made entirely from recycled FSC-certified wood and PET bottles
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IT’S ABOUT SMARTER USE OF RESOURCES AND FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, DESIGNING PRODUCTS SO THEY CAN BE REPURPOSED, REPAIRED, REUSED, RESOLD OR RECYCLED IN ANY OTHER WAY
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