The Body Shop: Workshopping the circular economy's 'tipping point'

Stuart Stone
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Credit: The Body Shop

The Body Shop's global sustainability and activism director Chris Davis talks to BusinessGreen about how the almost 50-year-old cosmetics retailer is putting circularity squarely in its revamped shop window

Since its 1976 launch by Dame Anita Roddick The Body Shop has exploded from a single Brighton branch to global retail giant via just about every high street and environmentally-minded household in Britain....

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