Month: October 2018

Recycling food waste helps us all tackle climate change, reveals report

Stuart Mitchell

The ground-breaking Carbon Metric, an innovative tool developed by Zero Waste Scotland, shows how waste reduction and sustainable waste management plays a critical role in the fight against climate change. It measures the whole-life carbon impacts of Scotland’s waste, from resource extraction and manufacturing emissions, right through to waste management emissions, regardless of where in the world these impacts occur. It is a pioneering way to measure the carbon impact of our waste, not just the amount that is recycled. It shows that, in 2017, Scottish households reduced the amount…

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Charities partner with Gone for Good #CharityVan app

Stuart Mitchell

Charities including YMCA, Cat’s Protection, Cancer Research, and many others are hoping to transform the way people donate their items to their charity shops with a new partnership with Gone for Good. Gone for Good is a free app that connects charities with businesses and the public, so that unwanted items are donated to good causes instead of being thrown away. Since its creation two years ago, the app has channelled £1,000,000 worth of items to their partnering charities. Along with seven other charities, YMCA is joining the #CharityVan pilot…

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California business leaders launch #CleanEconomyGovernor campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Business associations across California are joining forces to launch a #CleanEconomyGovernor campaign in advance of the November elections. The business groups, which represent and collaborate with companies that collectively generate more than $1 trillion in annual global economic activity, are urging gubernatorial candidates John Cox and Gavin Newsom to commit to growing California’s clean energy economy, which they see as essential for the state’s overall economic success. And they are asking the candidates to build on California’s ambitious new emissions-free electricity law and Gov. Jerry Brown’s recent executive order setting…

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What is Fair Trade? International Fair Trade Charter defines vision for a fairer world

Stuart Mitchell

Many people use the term “fair trade”, but what does it actually mean? Today, more than 250 organizations around the world are uniting to launch an International Fair Trade Charter that sets down the fundamental values of Fair Trade and defines a common vision towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Business as usual will not deliver the step change needed to meet the SDGs, adopted by the world’s nations on 25 September 2015 amid a fanfare of optimism, and whose third anniversary is being marked today in New York…

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Sainsbury’s pledges its support to an ambitious new Food Waste Reduction Roadmap developed by IGD and Wrap.

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s has used its website to pledge its support an ambitious new Food Waste Reduction Roadmap developed by IGD and Wrap. They made the pledge on their website and it is repeated below: Tackling food waste has been a key area of focus for Sainsbury’s for a number of years and as a business we are taking innovative steps across our entire value chain. By working closely with our farmers and growers, we are able to ensure what they grow matches the quantities our customers will buy. Crucially, we also…

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