Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility at TJX Companies

Environmental Sustainability

TJX has long been committed to pursuing initiatives that are smart for our business and good for the environment. We operate a large, complex international business and are proud of our growth, which has added thousands of jobs to communities around the world and helped bring our off-price value concept to millions of new consumers. That said, our growth has also often resulted in annual increases in our environmental footprint,1 including our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory. That’s why we continually work to increase the energy efficiency of our operations by maximizing technologies that lower store and distribution center energy use from lighting, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. We also proactively address the way we handle the waste generated by our business operations and are working to responsibly manage the varying materials within our waste stream with a goal of sending less and less waste to landfills.

One of the key ways we measure our progress is by tracking our results against our GHG reduction goal, which is to reduce our global GHG emissions per dollar of revenue by 30% by fiscal 2020, against a fiscal 2010 baseline.

We are pleased to report that we are on track to exceed our goal. We are also in the process of considering options for setting our next quantitative emissions reduction goal. As part of that process, we are analyzing science-based target options that range from a below two-degree scenario to a carbon neutral scenario.

KEY INITIATIVES
Our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint are focused around these key initiatives:

ENERGY AND EMISSIONS

TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS

GREEN BUILDING

WASTE MANAGEMENT

ASSOCIATE ENGAGEMENT

MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING

Community Impact and Philanthropy

For more than four decades, delivering great value to our customers has been at the core of our business. In fact, providing value and caring for others have helped define our culture over the years, and these principles extend beyond the walls of our stores and into our local communities around the world. When we have considered where our community initiatives could have the most impact, it has been important to us to focus on the intersection of these principles and areas of need for vulnerable families. Our global community mission is simple:

Deliver great value to our communities by helping vulnerable families and children access the resources and opportunities they need to build a better future.

OUR SOCIAL IMPACT AREAS

We bring our community relations mission to life by focusing our giving on four social impact areas that we believe are critical to helping families and children succeed and thrive.