Associate Engagement

TJX Associates engaging, collaborating, and planning with a goal of minimizing environmental impact

Corporate responsibility, including environmental sustainability, is important to both current and prospective Associates. We welcome ideas that could help enable our business to reduce our environmental footprint, use less energy, and create less waste in our operations. Our Associates are encouraged to consider how to make operational decisions that can potentially minimize environmental impacts, and we communicate this in our Global Code of Conduct.

Additionally, we have organized global cross-functional teams focused on supporting the implementation of our environmental sustainability programs, goals and initiatives. Specifically, we have created teams that address key strategies focused on the following topics: Carbon and Energy, Waste Management, Green IT (Information Technology), and Sustainable Merchandise and Packaging.

ENCOURAGING OUR ASSOCIATES TO BE ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS

We use various internal communications platforms across all our regions to share information and training opportunities with our Associates about our environmental sustainability focus areas, goals, and initiatives.

In Fiscal 2022, we celebrated Earth Week, announcing our new environmental goals to help raise awareness about TJX’s environmental sustainability programs with our store, distribution center, and office Associates. For example, in our global home offices, we:

Hosted a virtual speaker series where a line-up of our internal sustainability experts explored different topics.
Planted a tree through American Forests, a national forest restoration and conservation organization, for everyone in the U.S. home office who committed to doing something environmentally friendly, such as carpooling, composting, or using a sustainable product.
Organized an art contest for children of Associates in the U.S. home.
In addition to events throughout the year, Canada’s Go Green Committee re-launched the Associate garden, after it had been paused due to the pandemic and Associates working remotely.
In Europe, the T.K. Maxx and Homesense Foundation Community Fund expanded its application criteria to include environmental charities, meaning Associates can now nominate charities which focus on issues such as climate change education, reducing the impact of waste, or preserving or promoting biodiversity.

GREEN IT

As our environmental sustainability strategy and program continue to evolve, teams throughout our business are coming together to collaborate and align with our corporate sustainability priorities to further drive this progress. To that end, Green IT, is an initiative focused on managing and leveraging technology to reduce the TJX Global IT team’s environmental footprint.

The Green IT Committee is sponsored by senior members of TJX’s Global IT leadership team and works to:

Identify, track, and monitor current IT initiatives that support TJX’s environmental sustainability strategy.
Compile research and measurements to help inform Green IT strategies and communications.
Leverage partnerships with internal stakeholders and third-party vendors to identify and understand what opportunities exist.

GREEN IT FOCUS AREAS:

CLIMATE: Reduce our technology-related greenhouse gas emissions footprint by optimizing the usage of our data centers and cloud services.
ENERGY: Reduce our energy usage by sourcing energy efficient devices and related software solutions.
WASTE: Responsibly manage our broken or obsolete hardware and accessories by identifying new ways and/or partnerships that lead to increases in recycling of or reductions in technology-related waste.

Updated September 2022