June 16 marked World Refill Day – an initiative championed by brands, retailers and customers to highlight the growing demand for sustainable and circular solutions.

As part of World Refill Day 2025, ARI’s Dublin and Cork stores (Dublin and Cork Airport Duty Free) invited passengers 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.

ARI’s ESG Lead and ARIME Head of Planning & Design, Tracy Ross 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.”

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 4 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.

Ross added: “As per our L’Oreal 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.”

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