Boots

MYGroup and British Beauty Council give beauty industry's waste strategy a makeover

Recycling

MYGroup and British Beauty Council give beauty industry's waste strategy a makeover

Partners join forces to tackle beauty industry's hard-to-recycle waste for Great British Beauty Clean Up 2026

clock 12 December 2025 • 3 min read
Boots and No7 Beauty launch partnership to slash supply chain emissions

Supplier

Boots and No7 Beauty launch partnership to slash supply chain emissions

High street retailer and cosmetics brand joins forces with Manufacture 2030 initiative to offer suppliers decarbonisation tools, knowledge, and funding opportunities

clock 31 May 2024 • 2 min read
Boots to reward customers for recycling vitamin and medicine blister packs

Recycling

Boots to reward customers for recycling vitamin and medicine blister packs

Advantage Card holders will receive 150 points when they recycle 15 empty blister packs and spend £10 in one of 100 selected stores across London and South East

clock 20 February 2024 • 3 min read
Boots joins push to end sale of plastic-based wet wipes

Recycling

Boots joins push to end sale of plastic-based wet wipes

The retailer sold 800 million wet wipes last year, but plans to end the sale of such products containing plastic by the end of 2022

clock 19 April 2022 • 3 min read

Waste

Doctor's orders: Boots prescribes compostable pharmacy bags

Boots to start offering customers their medicines in 100 per cent compostable bags made using potato starch

clock 25 November 2019 • 1 min read

Waste

Boots aims to turn over a clean sheet with biodegradable baby wipes

Switch to sustainable viscose material could save 200 tonnes of plastic each year, according to retailer

clock 03 October 2019 • 1 min read

Automotive

Boots plots zero emission prescription deliveries with electric van trial

Pharmacy retailer adds five EVs to its Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire home delivery fleet as part of pilot it hopes to expand across the UK

clock 30 August 2019 • 2 min read

Waste

Boots begins nationwide rollout of unbleached paper bags

The switch - due to be completed by early 2020 - will avoid more than 900 tonnes of plastic waste a year, the firm said

clock 24 June 2019 • 1 min read

Supply chain

Walgreens Boots Alliance cuts CO2, energy use, and waste across global stores

Pharmaceuticals retailer slashed CO2, energy use, and waste to landfill in 2018, according to latest sustainability report

clock 13 February 2019 • 2 min read

Carbon Accounting

Boots beats green target three years early with help from LEDs

Boots UK smashes carbon emissions target three years early

clock 09 January 2018 • 1 min read