As part of its commitment to Zero Waste, The Warehouse actively encourages waste elimination through its supply chain. Using its buying power as leverage, The Warehouse is able to influence its suppliers toward minimising the amount of material used in packaging.

Menswear Buyer Ewa Liddington recently initiated the redesign of packaging for a range of men’s t-shirts, polo shirts and singlets. The original plastic bag and hanger were replaced with cardboard band wraps. This replacement eliminates 12 grams of plastic per unit. With sales of over 300 thousand garments this packaging change equates to a direct saving of around 4 tonnes of waste plastic per year.