Highlighting circular solutions: Dublin and Cork Airport Duty Free mark World Refill Day 2025
ARI’s Dublin and Cork Airport Duty Free operations marked World Refill Day (June 16) , recognizing the initiative championed by brands, retailers and customers to highlight the growing demand for sustainable and circular solutions, and an area of growing opportunity within the travel retail space.
ARI’s ESG strategy update – Journey with Purpose, launched in April of this year – is a roadmap to a more sustainable and conscious business by 2030, with ambitious KPIs established under each of the four pillars of People, Planet, Product and Passenger.
The newly added Passenger pillar aims to empower passengers to shop more responsibly by offering sustainable choices. A key element of this is introducing and increasing circular retail offerings across ARI’s operations, as highlighted earlier this week for World Refill Day.
To mark World Refill Day in ARI’s Dublin and Cork stores (Dublin and Cork Airport Duty Free), passengers were also invited to take part in a five-day challenge, encouraging them to make conscious choices and sustainable swaps in their day to day – from opting for a reusable coffee cup to purchasing a refill product.
Tracy Ross, ARI’s ESG Lead and ARIME Head of Planning & Design, commented, “Not only on World Refill Day, but every day, we at ARI are listening to what our passengers and conscious consumers want and expect from our stores. We are working closely with our brand partners to introduce and increase our circular economy capabilities, for example refill solutions, and many of our partners have already made huge strides in this area.
“We fully support this transition and encourage passengers to explore our conscious brand refill range extensions, currently available within the following brands: Kiehl’s, Lancome, Kerastase, Mugler, Prada, Armani, Clarins, Marc Jacob, Charlotte Tilbury, Mac, Chanel, Hermes and Max Benjamin. As per our L’Oréal partners - did you know that … ‘buying a 100ml Prada Paradoxe fragrance refill instead of two new 50ml fragrance bottles, is saving 74% CO2?’
"There is a huge opportunity to grow our offering in the circular space, and we are excited to continue to offer the Passenger new ways to shop more consciously.”
