Planet

We’re Working to Change Things, for Everyone

We all have a responsibility to do what we can to protect the world we live in. At Primark, we’re committed to changing the way we do business to reduce our impact on the planet and cut waste. We are constantly looking for new and more environmentally friendly ways of working – whether that’s with the farmers who grow the cotton that goes into Primark products, the factories that make products for sale, the trucks that bring them to our stores, or how we run our stores themselves. Since 2019 for example, we estimate to have removed over 600 million items of single use plastic from our business.

Right now, 40% of the cotton in our clothes is recycled, organic or from our Sustainable Cotton Programme. We have now trained 252,800* farmers in more sustainable farming practices under this Programme and we are on-track to train 275,000 farmers by end of 2023, cementing this programme as the biggest of its kind of any single fashion retailer.

* This is based on data up until the end of August 2022. This includes farmers that are currently being trained and those that have completed training under the programme.