Green Retailing Best Practices
Santa Cruz Checklist
Arizona Green Boot Camp, LocalFirstAZ
Booksellers Association (UK)'s Sustainable Bookselling Action Group
Arizona Green Boot Camp, LocalFirstAZ
Booksellers Association (UK)'s Sustainable Bookselling Action Group
Notes from the Green Bookselling breakout session, Minneapolis Idea Exchange, fall 2022:
Acknowledgement that nobody in the group is an expert but brainstormed some possible ideas:
Acknowledgement that nobody in the group is an expert but brainstormed some possible ideas:
- If you don't already have a mandatory bag fee, institute one or ask local politicians to institute one. Ban plastic bags. Charge $.10-$.25/bag for paper. Reduces paper bag consumption and you can donate the bag fee to an environmental cause that would offset your emissions.
- Do an environmental review of each department- who are you sourcing from (how far away does product have to come, what is it made of, is it recyclable, is there waste, etc.)
- In some communities, books can be compost (from Source Books). Ask your local composting option if book pickup is an option instead of pulping.
- Calculate your carbon offset for shipping and donate to nonprofit
- Evaluate your reuse bags with store logos to ensure that it is actually environmentally friendly.
- Communicate to publishers about sending ARC's in bulk instead of individually
- Evaluate options for remainders in place to eliminate 10-20% of returns shipping.
- Research best practices from countries such as France in their industry since they must be farther ahead than us.
- Understand how many lights you are leaving on at night and update to LED lightbulbs
- Water based tape is available for packaging instead of plastic.
- eliminate ribbon at the gift wrapping stations
- create a quick 3 question assessment for sidelines teams to use to evaluate waste with packaging as they receive to give feedback to sidelines companies as to their shipping processes.