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Ben Sillitoe

England

Freelance Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Founder and Editor at Green Retail World

Freelance business editor/journo/copywriter (retail, tech, eco). Founding ed @EssRetail, @retailgazette, @GreenerRetail. Tweets: retail/tech/eco/travel/LFC/

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  • Finisterre launches first product made from old wetsuits

    3 days ago | greenretail.world | Ben Sillitoe

    Outdoor apparel retailer Finisterre has unveiled its first product made from old wetsuits, thanks to partnership with Circular Flow. The ‘From Wetsuits’ changing mat has been designed to carry wet gear (see image, below) and double as a durable changing mat, and Finisterre said its development marks a major step forward in tackling one of the surf industry’s biggest sustainability challenges: what to do with hard-to-recycle wetsuits at the end of their lives.

  • New Look sustainability boss: Consumers expect us to be responsible

    1 week ago | greenretail.world | Ben Sillitoe

    There’s much more retailers and charities can do to strengthen their relationships and help reduce waste, while consumers simply expect retailers to be responsible organisations. They were two key takeaways from a panel session at Retail Technology Show 2025, at the beginning of April, as fashion retailer New Look and disabled children’s charity Newlife were represented on stage.

  • Circular promotion: Decathlon buyback scheme provides Easter bonus

    1 week ago | greenretail.world | Ben Sillitoe

    The Decathlon buyback scheme has been given an Easter weekend boost, with the sports retailer’s loyalty members able to access more value from donating their old and unwanted products.

  • Waitrose joins Polytag's plastic recycling Ecotrace Programme

    2 weeks ago | greenretail.world | Ben Sillitoe

    Upmarket grocer Waitrose has joined tech company Polytag’s plastic recycling Ecotrace Programme, a UK initiative aimed at transforming the tracking and recycling of packaging in the UK. As an Ecotrace member, Waitrose now gains access to the Polytag dashboard – an online hub which displays live barcode-level lifecycle data on plastic packaging materials as they enter the recycling stream.

  • Tesco trialling packaging QR codes to improve inventory knowledge

    2 weeks ago | greenretail.world | Ben Sillitoe

    Tesco is placing packaging QR codes on its products as it looks to find ways to improve inventory knowledge, ensure out of date stock doesn’t leave the store, help reduce waste – and achieve a whole lot more in terms of customer experience (CX). The UK’s largest retailer started a trial at the end of March, working alongside standards organisation GS1 UK which powers the new QR codes and which is talking about the “second barcode revolution” having originally launched the tech in the 1970s.

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8 Mar 25

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20 Dec 24

‘Supporting green jobs and economic growth’: Circular Economy Taskforce membership unveiled https://t.co/FmMMtSh6Yf @Unpackaged @ellenmacarthur @WRAP_NGO

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19 Dec 24

Net Zero Council is relaunched and Co-op chief remains as co-chair https://t.co/JNHL6YtrWN @skhouryhaq @coopuk @Ed_Miliband @energygovuk