IKEA (the world’s largest furniture retailer) has revealed that 70% of the materials used to make its products during 2018 were either renewable or recycled, as it strives to reach the 100% mark by 20

IKEA, which owns the brand ownership of the Swedish furniture giant IKEA, updated its sustainability strategy report, People & Planet Positive, launched in 2012, announcing the company’s sustainable development by 2030. The latest commitment includes the following main contents:

2020, restaurants in IKEA stores worldwide stoped using disposable plastic products.

Use new environmentally friendly methods to make all IKEA products, and use only renewable and recycled materials in the process to

provide The service of customers moving products home more conveniently

increases the proportion of vegetarian food in IKEA restaurants.

reduce the average carbon footprint of each product through cooperation with household product suppliers. 70%

by 2025 will achieve zero emissions during door-to-door delivery

to 2025, extending the coverage of home solar energy solutions from the current 5 markets to 29 markets.

IKEA’s greenhouse gas emissions are mainly derived from raw materials. An Inter IKEA spokesperson revealed that 60% of IKEA’s products are currently based on renewable materials, and 10% of products contain recycled materials.

Inter IKEA CEO Torbjorn Loof said, “With our scale and influence, we have the potential to inspire more than 1 billion people to stay together for sustainable development and use a limited resource to live a better life. We are committed to taking the lead in working with everyone, Including our raw material suppliers, customers and partners. “

Inter IKEA This latest initiative is the first to target all IKEA stores worldwide. Currently, IKEA has a total of 418 stores in 49 markets around the world, most of which are owned by the IKEA Group (IKEA Group), a small part of which is operated by other franchisees and supply chain partners.

The IKEA Group is owned by a foundation based in the Netherlands, while Inter IKEA is owned by a foundation based in Liechtenstein. The IKEA Group announced in 2016 the sale of its main subsidiary to Inter IKEA for € 5.2 billion as part of a major change within IKEA. (For details, see the historical report of Hualizhi: Swedish home giant IKEA’s internal organizational structure

has undergone a major change. The main subsidiary responsible for product development and supply chain changed hands with 5.2 billion euros.) Inter IKEA also set a scientific goal for the IKEA Group- Compared with 2016, the impact of stores and other businesses on the climate will be reduced by 80% in absolute terms by 2030.

At the annual Democratic Design Day event on June 7, IKEA also showcased a series of new solutions to help people save water and clean air, as well as innovative products made from recycled materials. These include faucets that save more than 90% of water, and textiles that help purify the air in your home.

Lena Pripp-Kovac, Sustainability Manager at Inter IKEA, said: “To achieve true recycling means meeting people’s changing lifestyles, extending product life, and using resources in a smarter way.”

According to a report released last October A Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk white paper shows that the world ’s top 250 listed companies emit one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions, but few of them set specific targets to Slowing the greenhouse effect.

IKEA has been actively exploring environmental protection and sustainable development strategies recently. In February this year, IKEA also launched furniture rental and repurchase services to test various environmental protection and sustainable development strategies. Last January, IKEA also announced the opening of a new environmentally sustainable community-based store in London.

In addition to IKEA, brands such as H & M, Coca-Cola and Sony are also working to improve the global climate by helping to achieve the goal set in the 2015 Paris Agreement to control the increase in global average temperature to within 2 degrees Celsius.

In the past May, brands such as Nike, H & M, Burberry and Gap have also announced their participation in the Make Fashion Circular program initiated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which aims to reduce waste in the global fashion industry by recycling raw materials and products.

IKEA enters sustainable urban planning to start selling solar panels in the UK

As a giant in furniture flat packaging, IKEA is well known for its cheap prices. When IKEA announced its long-term strategy for sustainable urban planning, there were skeptics that IKEA could not escape the brand of its “useable and discardable” brand story-hence wastelessness. But if the recent news has some hint, it can be believed that IKEA is discussing the motion quite seriously.

Recently IKEA is proud to announce that it will begin shipping packaged solar panels for sale at 17 sales locations in the UK. Although price positioning is high-end (starting at $ 9,200), this plan demonstrates IKEA’s commitment to making solar panels a viable and serious part of their overall business, not just confined to the UK home market.

This is a major step for this Swedish home retailer, but it is not entirely unexpected. They recently worked with UNHCR to jointly develop a low-cost DIY house with a solar panel roof. It will only be a matter of time before these solar panels are sold on the merchandise display.

If IKEA can persuade customers to invest in this type of environmentally friendly products, the price of the product will naturally drop, making the affordable solar home from possible to reality.

Rent furniture from IKEA? Selling old furniture back to IKEA? IKEA launches testing activities to explore environmental protection and sustainable development strategies

At the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, Swedish furniture giant IKEA revealed that they are testing various environmental and sustainable development strategies, including furniture rental and repurchase services.

IKEA CEO Jesper Brodin said that many people now don’t feel the need to buy everything and are concerned about the environmental impact of waste furniture. “So we are testing a few different options, including renting furniture,” he said. For

example, in Japan, IKEA is testing repurchasing sofas from consumers and recycling them into manufacturing materials. Brodin said: “Consumers in different cities have different interests in this area. For example, in London, many people live far away from work and do not want to buy a house, so renting a house is very common, so they are Interest in furniture is also high. “

Brodin emphasized that many consumers now want the company to adopt a more environmentally friendly business model, and IKEA wants to meet their needs. Brodin also revealed that IKEA is currently developing a fiber fabric that can be used to make more environmentally friendly and more suitable furniture for recycling.

A spokesperson for IKEA UK said: “Our current focus is to get feedback from consumers and use this as a starting point to study their specific needs in areas such as environmental protection and to formulate our sustainable development accordingly. Strategy. “

Feike Sybesma, CEO of DSM, a Dutch technology group, said they are also developing technologies for environmentally friendly furniture, such as a recycled polyester carpet. Feike Sybesma says that they can completely recycle this material and make it into a brand new carpet, so ideally, consumers do n’t even need to buy a new carpet for a lifetime, they only need to rent one.

At this World Economic Forum, IKEA also won the “circular economy award”. Patrik Antoni of IKEA India, which received the award on behalf of the company, said: “We are very honored that we will integrate sustainability into every part of our business model.”