Our Sustainability Plan 2025: Working Together to Create a Better Tomorrow highlights our ambitious goals and commitments to make a positive change across three pillars: people, planet and product.
Woolworths Group is united and driven by our Group purpose: to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow. We strive to have a positive impact on our team, our planet, our customers and the communities we serve – and in doing so create long-term stakeholder value and sustainable growth for our business.
With F23 marking the midpoint of our 2025 Sustainability Plan, we’re focused on delivering meaningful change across our entire supply chain. We are determined to lead by example, and to support and partner with our suppliers and stakeholders to have a positive impact. We’re pleased to share with you our achievements towards 2025, and how we continue in our ambition to do more.
We act like a leader and speak up on issues that matter
We care for, and unlock the potential of our people
We have a positive impact on the planet
We apply circular thinking in everything we do
We embrace the power of partnerships to create change
Our Sustainability Plan 2025: Working Together to Create a Better Tomorrow highlights our ambitious goals and commitments to make a positive change across three pillars: people, planet and product.
We are actively looking to create positive change in our business and in our extended value chain, together with our partners. We see sustainability as an opportunity to create long‑term value for our stakeholders that will deliver benefits for decades to come.
Our Sustainability Plan 2025 is reviewed and adjusted as part of our annual planning cycle to maintain its relevance in a changing world. This document is version 3.0 of our Sustainability Plan 2025, effective August 2023.
We’ve contributed
>34m
meals to our food rescue partners in F23
We’ve achieved
36%
reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions since 2015
We’ve reduced
>14,000
tonnes virgin plastic packaging vs baseline through targeted initiatives
Our business accelerators help drive positive change towards our Sustainability Plan 2025 through strategic partnerships and innovations that deliver mutually beneficial outcomes.
Woolworths360 (W360), was established to accelerate the delivery of our environmental sustainability aspirations through our unique capabilities to create solutions for a better planet. W360 knows that these challenges cannot be solved alone, and require partnership and systemwide changes. W360 is working across industry to deliver solutions and shape new markets, to provide solutions that are tailored to each of our business units, while simultaneously identifying solutions which may be scaled to help our suppliers and our partners reach their own sustainability ambitions.
W23 is Woolworths Group’s innovation fund. They invest in startups and scaleups that transform retail and accelerate growth, with a focus on Retail-Tech, ESG and Digital Health.
W23’s investments in innovative ESG startups and scaleups (such as Sonder, All G Foods, Samsara, Great Wrap, Harvest B, Spero Foods) accelerate delivery of several people, planet and product goals and commitments in our Sustainability Plan 2025
healthylife is Woolworths Group’s holistic online health destination, offering health and wellness advice, programs, services and products to help Australians eat well, move well and feel well.
The healthylife Advisory Board draws upon the experience, skills and expert knowledge of a range of health professionals to ensure the information is evidence based with expert insight and guidance to bring the simple trusted way to a healthylife. It contributes to product goal: to materially increase healthier choices in our customers’ baskets.