The Mercedes-Benz trucks have been modified by Nottingham-based Hardstaff Group and run using Compressed Natural Gas and regular diesel which reduces emissions while maintaining diesel-engine levels of performance. They are being used on delivery routes in to stores in the North West and are based at the M&S distribution centre in Crewe.
M&S is installing Water Saving Technology in over 300 stores in the next twelve months. Measures include sensor taps, flush valves and urinal controls which will significantly reduce water usage and bills. The current seven store trial of waterless urinals will also be increased by a further 20 stores following encouraging early results.
Highlights from the past six months from each of the Plan A areas
Involving our customers in Plan A The past six months has seen the launch of two new, major Plan A customer initiatives; the third, and most successful, One Day Wardrobe Clearout; and 34,000 M&S customers getting involved in the Big Butterfly Count 2011.
In June M&S launched Forever Fish – a major campaign to help customers and their children learn more about fish, clean our British beaches and protect marine life.
Funded by the profits from the 5p carrier bag charge at M&S Food halls, over the next three years M&S will: set-up and run School of Fish; encourage as many of M&S' 21 million customers and 78,000 employees as possible to help the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) clean British beaches; invest over £1 million in WWF projects that help better manage UK fish stocks and protect the world's oceans; and help customers make healthy and more sustainable choices by promoting more high quality, sustainably-sourced fish and introducing lesser known and more plentiful species such as Dab and Flounder.
In July M&S announced a new partnership with UNICEF to transform the lives of the world's poorest children. M&S is asking customers not to take a hanger home when they buy clothes and will instead donate 50p for every £1 saved from hanger recycling to UNICEF, the world's leading children's organisation.
The aim is to raise at least £1.9million over the next three years to fund a critical new project in two locations within the Mymensingh and Dhaka regions of Bangladesh, providing all the basics children need for a better future, such as clean water, education and healthcare.
On Thursday 8th September, M&S customers donated over 400,000 used and unwanted items of clothing to Oxfam at M&S stores up and down the country for the third One Day Wardrobe Clearout. It took the total of items of clothing donated to the M&S Oxfam Clothes Exchange to over 10 million, which is worth an estimated £8 million to Oxfam, helping the charity fund vital work in the UK and abroad and encouraging customers into our stores.
34,000 customers took part in this year's Big Butterfly Count which tracks UK butterfly numbers and helps raise awareness abouthow important butterflies are to the environment. The count is organised by Butterfly Conservation and sponsored by M&S. This year was a record in terms of participation (twice as many as last year) and over 322,000 butterflies were recorded.
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