Sustainable everyday

How sustainable is IKEA? Well, more sustainable every day. With home solar panels, veggie hot dogs, kitchen fronts made from recycled plastic bottles, and energy-saving solutions, we’re paving the way for more sustainable homes for the many. We believe that people should feel empowered to live more sustainably, which is why we focus on inspiring change with affordable, recyclable, and energy-effective product design. Because, as Ingvar Kamprad once said: “No method is more effective than the good example.”

Our materials

Wood – a material with many qualities

A headboard with RANDGRÄS cotton bed linen with pillows and a quilt cover in shades of white and grey, some striped.

100% committed to sustainable cotton

Hundreds of sheep grazing in the sunlight, with trees and mountains behind them.

We want all our rugs to be made from sustainable wool

A woman eating from an IKEA plastic food container, with a transparent plastic bottle filled with water beside her.

Only recycled or renewable based plastic in IKEA products by 2030

People and planet positive

Green and red coloured herbs and lettuces growing in a hydroponics system.

Plant-based goodness

A pair of hands trying to capture water from a running tap.

Tapping into more ways to use less water

A spherical LED light bulb hanging from a black cord against a dark blue wall.

A brighter life at home with LED

A person wearing bracelets dropping a banana skin in to an IKEA VARIERA recycling bin, in a kitchen drawer.

There’s no time to waste

A picture showing two coffee bags from the IKEA EGENTID tea series, which is UTZ certified for sustainable farming.

EGENTID – good for you, the farmers and the planet

A girl eating a snack with bread and salad in it.

Delicious food you can trust

A young woman in a red T-shirt pulling back a yellow curtain to greet the sun from her balcony.

Home Solar

Lots of all-round IKEA ISTAD re-sealable bags, made mostly of a renewable material from the sugar cane industry.

ISTAD – A pioneering goody bag

White, black, and light wooden tables and chairs scattered throughout a forest, one source of our renewable materials.

Choosing materials - being a large business comes with large responsibilities

Committed to a more sustainable future

As one of the world’s largest retailers, we are determined to fight climate change. Find out how we plan on becoming even more sustainable by 2030.

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