East Midlands Designer Outlet has been recognised for its improved environmental performance by prestigious international environment group, The Green Organisation.
The centre has been awarded an International Bronze Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice in the category Retail and Wholesale: Energy Management. Over the past year, our East Midlands team have adapted business practices to reduce the centre’s impact on the environment and advance our commitment to net zero, as outlined in our Evolve framework.
These initiatives include replacing all traditional fluorescent light bulbs with LEDs and reducing greenhouse gas leakage within heating and cooling systems. Overall, these efficiency measures have reduced the centre’s energy consumption by 11%.
Alongside these measures, the centre has worked on creating habitats for wildlife to increase biodiversity and installed 26 new electric vehicle charging points for our guests and colleagues who use electric vehicles. The EV charging points have avoided 32,500kg of greenhouse gas being emitted into the environment since being installed, which is equivalent to planting 830 trees and letting them grow for 10 years.
The team were invited to a grand ceremony at the Houses of Parliament in London to receive the award.
In addition, the centre was also recently awarded a ‘diamond level award’ for the presentation and high standard of their toilet facilities.
Posted on 15 February 2024
