055: Richard Walker | Destroy Or Cherish Climate Change? The Choice Is Ours

Richard is managing director of Iceland Foods and he’s on a mission to disrupt the retail industry and tackle climate change and other environmental challenges. Under his leadership, Iceland has taken a range of world-leading sustainability initiatives that include becoming the first major retailer globally to commit to eliminating single-use plastic packaging from its own-label range; taking action against continuing destruction of tropical rainforests as the first UK major UK supermarket to announcing the removal of palm ingredients from its own label food; becoming the first UK retailer to adopt the Plastic Free Trust Mark, and being the first retailer to install trial Reverse Vending Machines for plastic bottles in stores in the UK.—Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2019.Watch Richard's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/richard-walker-destroy-or-cherish-the-choice-is-ours