Revend Recycling has launched an innovative reverse vending recycling machine for the collection and recycling of domestic light bulbs and domestic batteries.

The Mall, The Venue and The Retail Park at Cribbs Causeway have embarked on a new initiative to encourage sustainable travel amongst their employees by offering a bespoke Travel Card scheme.

Church Square shopping centre in St Helens teamed up with local primary school Holy Cross C of E to design Church Square’s new mascot, designed to represent the centre’s green credentials.

It is crucial that retailers and landlords work together to ensure that shopping centres play their part in hitting the UK’s legally binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, according to a new report commissioned by BCSC.

Rentokil was recently appointed by the White Rose Centre in Rhyl, Denbighshire, to help it manage a rapidly escalating seagull problem in its
car park.

With the government’s CRC targets fast approaching, sustainability initiatives are high on the agenda for retail property owners

The Percy Hedley Foundation is working with Metrocentre on a pilot to help employers develop a bespoke, accessible recruitment process for people with learning disabilities

Guide aims to help retail and leisure tenants understand the environmental impact of property

When Shopping Centre launched 20 years ago sustainability was barely on the agenda. But it has come to dominate management practices, finds Sean Kelly

The Events Venue, the unique 5,200 sq m events and exhibition space due to open at Bluewater later this year, has created one of the largest green roofs in the UK, covering an area of over 3 sq km.

When One New Change opened on October 28, it broke barriers in a number of ways. As well as being one of the few retail destinations to open in 2010 and a first for the City of London, it’s also paving the way for the possibilities of public realm with the opening of its roof terrace.

Soon-to-be wed Kate Middleton has another dress option when she walks down the aisle with Prince William later this month – a unique re-cycled creation called ‘Green with Envy’, unveiled at Manchester Arndale on Monday.

The first annual Shopping Centre Conference was held in London on Tuesday. The day was packed full with presentations and panel discussions on a range of topics including marketing and commercialisation, facilities management, security, landlord/tenant relations and the future of retail destinations.

Exclusive research shows that high fuel prices are now having a real impact on shopper behaviour with almost half of shoppers thinking twice before using their car

Display Energy Certificates (DECs) are to become compulsory for all commercial buildings under the government's new carbon plan.

With the royal wedding fever starting to hot-up, staff at Manchester Arndale have decided to mark the special occasion in unique fashion by producing a recycled royal wedding dress with the help of a local eco-designer.

Climate change minister Greg Barker visited Land Securities’ One New Change, the city’s new shopping destination, today as the centre revealed its state-of-the-art renewable energy technology.

The saving was achieved as a result of a national carbon reduction initiative by the retail centre’s owner Legal & General Property through a 12-month programme started in January 2009, using Power Efficiency’s Building Operational Performance Improvement service.

Henderson is on track with its RPI agenda, meeting two-year targets in just one year, according to its latest report.  

Shopping centres could cash in next month after a survey revealed that warm weather makes people want to shop.

The Mall Fund, managed by Capital & Regional and Aviva Investors has continued to make progress with its programme to make its centres greener.

Hammerson has cut carbon emissions across its portfolio as a result of a series of energy-saving initiatives implemented in the UK and France.

Land Securities’ 14 shopping centres were plunged into darkness on Saturday as the UK’s biggest landlord joined in World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Earth Hour.

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is about to become a reality, but according to environmental experts many shopping centres have been slow to wake up to its implications.

In what is seen as a first for a retail and leisure destination in the UK, Liverpool One has started creating its own biofuel. The initiative involves Liverpool One collecting waste cooking oils from several of its many restaurants and recycling it into clean biodiesel that will run Liverpool One’s fleet of estate vehicles.

Amid all the sparkle at the Shopping Centre SCEPTRE Awards dinner at London's Dorchester hotel last month, The Meadows centre in Chelmsford won The Environmental Initiative of the Year award for its achievement of almost 100 per cent waste recycling.

The forecast consequences of climate change are, it seems, becoming a reality, and shopping centres were among the more prominent casualties of recent extreme climatic events in the UK.

Buildings create a lot of CO2, so let's have an initiative to reduce it. That, more or less, is what the new Energy Performance Certificates are all about.

Paul Cornes is chairman of the BCSC's sustainability task force. Formed a year ago, its job has been to get the BCSC Sustainability Charter off the ground, which aims to get all stakeholders in the shopping centre industry to address their sustainability impact - energy, waste, water and the community.

The global headquarters of Bovis Lend Lease at The Bond in Sydney is the first Five Green Star building in Australia. It has 30 per cent lower CO2 than a typical office building, and a four-storey sandstone wall provides passive cooling as well as acting as an air duct out of the building. Another Lend Lease building, The Gauge in Melbourne, has just opened as the first privately-owned Six Green Star building in Australia.

Shopping centres across the UK are upping their game when it comes to the cleanliness of their malls. Westfield Merry Hill and McArthurGlen's Swindon Designer Outlet were both congratulated for the cleanliness of their malls at this year's BCSC ACE Awards.

Environmental and sustainable activity in the retail sector is a high priority, with most major retailers making it top of their agenda.

Meadowhall is often deemed one of the most environmentally-aware malls in the country, with a number of unique initiatives ensuring the centre stands out from its rivals when it comes to sustainability.

Last month Bluewater launched new, highly sustainable, restrooms with a contemporary design - the first in a series of enhancements intended to reduce the centre's environmental footprint and maintain its position as the UK's premier retail and leisure destination.

A natural ventilation system, concealed behind giant floating sails, looks set to reduce the emissions normally associated with air-conditioning down to virtually zero at Glasgow's new Silverburn shopping centre.

There are multiple potential drivers behind the decision to refurbish, from simply refreshing and upgrading an ageing look, to defensive reasons when a new development arrives nearby. Whatever the driver, a refurb is generally about meeting contemporary retailing requirements (such as floor space and configuration) and modern fashions in terms of design and appearance, particularly given the latest research which shows that 'experience' is becoming all important to shoppers. And it is often a chance to extend and add floorspace, perhaps building over under-utilised spaces such as large outmoded service yards, or combining units to create more usable space.

Land Securities has become the latest property company to boost its green credentials by unveiling its environmental strategy. But in an implied criticism of some of its rivals it has questioned the increasing use of 'carbon offsetting' as a panacea to climate change.

British Land is to sell off a major slice of its 1.5 million-sq ft Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield. It is inviting a number of investors to take a stake in the scheme, but it intends to remain as the largest single investor and will retain the management of the asset.

Prupim has set up an innovative project called the Improver Portfolio – to examine ways it can reduce a ‘typical’ property portfolio’s carbon footprint while maintaining or even enhancing investment returns.

British Land, Europe's largest property company by assets and owner of Meadowhall in Sheffield, has pledged to become carbon neutral by the end of the next financial year. Other companies like Marks & Spencer have made similar promises, but what is startling about British Land's announcement is its very tight timescale. M&S, for instance, has given itself five years to balance its environmental books.