Broadening opportunities for our customers to recycle

Our recycling partnerships have led to a 60% increase in wiper blades collected by Halfords for recycling this year.

The wiper blades will be processed with over 70% recycling rates, and the remaining material captured for incineration with energy recovery. This is an improvement on the previous process where wiper blades were placed in general waste. We will be continuing to expand this programme with a focus on a broader range of high volume motoring products in FY26.

This year, we have also developed our recycling programme to capture inner tubes. We have collected 160,000 inner tubes, and are working with Schwalbe Tyres UK, our manufacturing partner, to put these materials back into the manufacturing process. This creates a circular use of material and is a significant step forward from previous processes where the tubes were placed in general waste.