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EXCLUSIVE: Travel Retail Sustainability Forum issues industry clarion call
TRBusiness in association with Duty Free Innovation (DFI) is rallying DF&TR stakeholders to join a long-overdue ‘green movement’ aimed at sparking new ideas and approaches to sustainability, notably the reduction of single-use plastic waste. Luke Barras-Hill reports.
T
oday’s consumers are compelling businesses – from start-ups to corporates – to
exercise their ‘green’ credentials; gone are the days when so-called ‘greenwashing’ rhetoric lulled shoppers into a comfy illusion that their purchases were cushioned at every turn by socially responsible and ecologically aware practices and decisions. Increased education surrounding
climate change, the need for carbon- offsetting and safeguarding a rapidly ailing environmental ecosystem has taken a new twist of momentum of late. At the nucleus of the global tourism trade, the duty free and travel retail industry has a critical part to play in that mission. Last year, Duty Free Innovation
(DFI) and TRBusiness launched two pioneering initiatives aimed at galvanising a more collective response to help the industry combat its impacts on the environment, with a particular concentration on reducing single-use plastic wastage. According to the Plastic Pollution
Coalition, by 2050 the world’s oceans will contain more plastic than fish by weight. Addressing a seismic problem starts, as it often does, at home and the DF&TR industry requires some much-needed housekeeping. It is estimated that the DF&TR
industry gives away up to 10 billion single-use plastic bags and Security Tamper Evident Bags (STEBS) and sells three billion plastic bottles in its shops every year. With that firmly front of mind,
MARCH 2020 What are you doing to address the single-use plastic problem in travel retail environments?
TRBusiness and DFI are pushing the industry to sign up to the TR Plastic Pledge and join the Travel Retail Sustainability Forum (TRSF), a coalition designed to spark a well- overdue ‘green movement’ that challenges every stakeholder to ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’ plastic.
New location, fresh impetus Shortly before TRBusiness went
to
press, news surfaced that the Duty Free & Travel Retail Summit of the Americas in Orlando had been cancelled, putting on hold – at least for the time being – the first iteration of the TRSF. This was originally due to take
place on 30 March at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Orlando, Florida. Eager attendees will no doubt have been disappointed by the decision to cancel the show – and as a result, the 90-minute session – which aimed to address a wide spectrum of challenges facing the travel retail sector on single-use plastic waste.
TRBusiness has reacted swiftly and purposefully to meet the critical demands of its loyal readers and viewers by establishing a new, dynamic and exciting plan for the Travel Retail Sustainability Forum.
TRBusiness
However, TRBusiness has reacted swiftly and purposefully to meet the critical demands of its loyal readers by establishing a new, dynamic and exciting plan. As reported on
TRBusiness.com,
the TFWA Asia Pacific Exhibition & Conference (10-14 May) was also cancelled a matter of days after the
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