Costa Coffee announces commitment to recycle half a billion takeaway cups a year

Costa Coffee has today announced it will become the first ever coffee chain in the UK to commit to recycling the same volume of cups it puts onto the market in a bid to tackle the challenge of coffee cup recycling and to stop them ending up in landfill. The UK’s favourite coffee shop will recycle up to 500 million coffee cups a year by 2020, the equivalent of its entire yearly sales of takeaway cups and a fifth of the 2.5 billion takeaway coffee cups consumed as a nation…

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FCB Health and Colin’s Hope: Water Safety Resources Join Forces to Launch NotOutOfTheWater.com During This Year’s National Water Safety Month

FCB Health is proud to partner with Colin’s Hope, a water safety and drowning prevention organization formed in August 2008 after 4-year-old Colin Holst fatally drowned in a public lifeguarded pool. Together, with the launch of NotOutOfTheWater.com, the two groups will be working throughout the month to bring awareness to drowning symptoms that may not be commonly known, while sharing basic water safety information to help prevent drowning. May is National Water Safety Month, a collaborative national effort to bring attention to aquatic safety. In recognition of this month, FCB…

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Sainsbury’s trials UK’s first grocery delivery service by electric cargo bike

Sainsbury’s is setting the wheels in motion on an innovative new trial – the UK’s first grocery delivery service by electric cargo bike. From this week, Sainsbury’s is setting the wheels in motion on an innovative new trial – the UK’s first grocery delivery service by electric cargo bike. A fleet of five zero emission bikes will be setting off across South London from the Streatham Common store, delivering up to 100 orders a day to local customers who’ve shopped through the retailer’s groceries online website. The trial demonstrates Sainsbury’s…

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Aldi swims ahead of British supermarkets in sustainable seafood

Discounter Aldi offers customers the largest proportion of sustainable seafood in the UK, ahead of big supermarkets Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, and Iceland, a new league table published today reveals. Just under 80% of Aldi’s seafood range is certified sustainable in comparison to M&S at 19%, Morrison’s at 4% Iceland at 3%. Results also show that all other supermarkets are selling more sustainable seafood than ever before, a 60% jump over the last two years. The annual Supermarket Sustainable Seafood League rates British supermarkets on their sustainable seafood range. It’s published by…

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NFL’s Colin Kaepernick named as Amnesty International’s 2018 ‘Ambassador of Conscience’

Athlete and inspiring activist Colin Kaepernick has been honoured with Amnesty International’s ‘Ambassador of Conscience’ award for 2018, the human rights organisation announced on Saturday 21 April. The award was presented to Kaepernick by American football player and former teammate Eric Reid at a ceremony in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the 2016 pre-season of the National Football League (NFL), Kaepernick knelt during the US national anthem as a respectful way of calling for the country to protect and uphold the rights of all its people. The bold move was a…

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