Day: 26 February 2019

Essilor Vision Foundation Reaches One Million Pairs of Glasses Donated in U.S.

Stuart Mitchell

Essilor Vision Foundation announced that it has donated one million pairs of glasses to people in need around the United States since it began operating in 2007. Essilor Vision Foundation is committed to helping everyone have a better life through better sight, because everyone deserves to see clearly. Vision is an invisible problem as most kids can’t self identify. To them, blurry vision is normal. Vision is among the most overlooked factors impacting a child’s success in school and in life. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,…

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To preserve our oceans: adidas to produce more shoes using recycled plastic waste in 2019

Stuart Mitchell

In 2018 adidas produced more than five million pairs of shoes containing recycled plastic waste. The company now plans to more than double that figure this year. As outcome of a cooperation between the sporting goods manufacturer and the environmental organization and global collaboration network Parley for the Oceans, plastic waste is intercepted on beaches, such as the Maldives, before it can reach the oceans. That upcycled plastic waste is made into a yarn becoming a key component of the upper material of adidas footwear. In addition to footwear, the…

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BP to support investor group’s call for greater reporting around Paris goals

Stuart Mitchell

BP has said that it will support a call from a group of institutional investors for the company to broaden its corporate reporting to describe how its strategy is consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Investor participants of the Climate Action 100+ initiative have proposed a resolution to be put to shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting in May 2019. Following constructive engagement between BP and the investors, the BP Board has decided to support the proposed resolution. BP has supported the aim of the Paris Agreement,…

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PRCA appoints Barry Leggetter as International President

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has appointed Barry Leggetter FPRCA as its first International President, as part of its plans to build on its position as the world’s largest PR professional body, and to move into new regions of the world. Leggetter has spent more than 25 years in international public relations consultancy during which he was UK CEO for three global firms (Porter Novelli, FleishmanHillard, and GolinHarris), and was also International Chairman of Bite.  He also held the role of CEO of AMEC, which he left after…

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Global Plastic Leak Project Kicks off to Tackle Plastic and Microplastic Leakage

Stuart Mitchell

Leading environmental sustainability consulting firm Quantis and ecodesign center EA are pleased to announce the official launch of the Plastic Leak Project (PLP), a multi-stakeholder initiative to develop robust metrics to help shape operational solutions and effective actions to address the plastic and microplastic pollution crisis. Convened by Quantis and EA, this global initiative will take an in-depth look at the circular economy of plastics, assess existing knowledge gaps and develop a methodological guide that any company can use to locate, map and assess plastic leakage along their value chain. …

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