Lower impact transport

We’re working to improve efficiency and adopt new technologies so we can reduce emissions from our transport and travel, even as our business grows.

Fully electric heavy goods vehicles are not yet sufficiently developed to meet our operational needs; however, Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) is an alternative to diesel fuel which can reduce CO₂ emissions by around 20%. At B&Q, we now have 50 trucks in our store delivery fleet running on LNG from our Swindon distribution centre. We plan to expand our UK LNG fleet, adding a further 50 vehicles. This was delayed due to the pandemic and will now happen in 2021/22. We’ll also be installing another LNG fuel facility at a second distribution centre.

At Screwfix, we’ve reduced road miles by almost 200,000 by increasing the number of products transported in each load and increasing the number of products stocked at some of our distribution centres.