Sustainable Exhibitions and Events

Bring Your Own Bag, Cut Carbon

Environmental challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity, and pollution are having an increasingly significant impact on countries, businesses, and people’s daily lives. As a platform for sustainability, SKM supports green initiatives and seeks to contribute to environmental protection. In November 2024, SKM piloted the “Bring Your Own Bag, Cut Carbon” initiative at its Taipei Nanxi Store, encouraging customers to bring their own shopping bags and reduce the use of single-use paper bags. The initiative was expanded to SKM department stores across Taiwan from September 5 to December 31, 2025.
During the campaign, customers across Taiwan brought their own shopping bags 6.043 million times, reducing carbon emissions by approximately 544,000 kg CO₂e (Note). SKM also awarded 12.377 million skm points to reward sustainable actions and encourage more customers to make reusable bags part of their everyday shopping habits. These results demonstrate how SKM leverages its membership program and retail spaces to engage customers in adopting low-carbon lifestyles.

Note: Each paper bag generates approximately 90 g of CO₂e emissions.

RE:ACTION Green Circular Living Exhibition

The RE:ACTION Green Circular Living Exhibition, SKM’s first major sustainability-themed exhibition, is built around the 3Rs of circularity: Recycle, Reuse, and Reduce, together with the idea that change begins with ACTION from everyone. Designed as a lifestyle exhibition, it brings sustainability into everyday life, showing how simple daily choices can turn sustainability from an idea into a way of living.

In its first year, the exhibition toured Taipei Xinyi Place and Tainan Place, bringing together one corporate group and 47 participating brands across beauty, fashion, lifestyle, local revitalization, plant-based food, and responsible production. Three themed zones, Green Trend Hub, Sustainability Explorers, and Green Time Café, showcased green consumption and carbon reduction in relatable, everyday settings, encouraging visitors to make sustainability part of their daily lives. The exhibition also embraced a zero-waste approach to exhibition design and introduced an innovative green admission system, allowing visitors to contribute to environmental sustainability from the moment they entered. The two exhibitions attracted a total of 18,000 visits and reduced carbon emissions by approximately 36 metric tons of CO₂e, demonstrating how SKM uses its retail spaces to promote sustainable consumption, circular practices, and low-carbon lifestyles.
 

Your Choices Shape the Future! Together, Embracing Circular Living for a Better Life Recycle： Through recycling and upcycling, empty bottles and discarded clothing can be transformed into new products, helping reduce environmental impact. Reuse： By making better use of agricultural and environmental resources, we can upcycle agricultural waste, drive industry innovation, and reduce resource waste. Reduce： Choose reusable products that minimize waste and reduce carbon footprints, making everyday consumption more sustainable. Every element in the visual reflects our coexistence with the environment—from urban residents riding bicycles and hands nurturing plants, to wind power as renewable energy, water recycling and conservation, choosing eco-friendly shopping bags, and exploring oceans and forests. Each represents a choice we can make today to create a better future. Green Admission for Exhibition Visits

Zero-Waste Exhibition Design The exhibition was built using Green Building Material-certified plywood, display fabric made from 100% recycled PET fibers, and eco-friendly paper-based wood panels. After the exhibition, the canvas materials were repurposed in collaboration with REBIRTH into tote bags for SKM members. Some exhibition booths were also rented from Mangodan and made from recycled materials such as discarded wafer boxes, Yakult bottles, Styrofoam, and refrigerator shelves. Together, these efforts reduced carbon emissions by 17.9 metric tons of CO₂e.

Earth Hour & Earth Day

SKM continues to support global environmental initiatives. In 2025, SKM marked Earth Hour, held on the last Saturday of March each year, and Earth Day on April 22 by switching off non-essential lighting, including exterior, signage, and lightbox lighting. These initiatives bring global environmental issues into everyday life through actions that customers can see and take part in.

Tainan Place

Tainan Zhongshan Store

SKM Park Outlets