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Tesco Lotus strengthens its ecological approach
Thailand
Tuesday 19 April 2011
MD
Tesco Lotus will open the first zero-carbon retail store in Thaïland.
Tesco Lotus will open its first zero-carbon retail store in Southeast Asia in November.
The store is scheduled to open in Bang Phra, Chon Buri. It is expected to cost about one billion baht, compared with between 200 million and 300 million for a conventional Talad Lotus.
Features of the new outlet will include a solar farm on the roof to produce energy to offset the carbon emissions generated by the store. Other projects would produce energy equivalent to the total carbon emissions from the store.
Apart from installing technology to reduce energy, the company is negotiating with suppliers and tenants to sell more green products at the store and in shops in the plaza.
The company plans to increase the number of green products available at its stores to 300 items this year, up from 197 last year. As well, it will ask for cooperation from suppliers to implement greener transport and delivery systems.
Tesco plans a cumulative reduction of carbon emissions by 50% by 2020.
source : bangkok post, india times
