AT&T and UT Knoxville Team Up to Engage Students on Sustainability

Sustainable business practices have the power to create tangible benefits for companies of all sizes by helping them reduce costs and boost efficiency while lessening their impact on the environment. AT&T want to help companies play a key role in creating an environmentally sustainable future—and we’re always looking for opportunities to share our commitment with the next generation. So, they’ve joined forces with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT) to give a group of students an up-close look at the role business plays in a sustainable community. AT&T Director of…

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Coca-Cola Announces Loan Agreement with Ioniqa Technologies to Transform Hard-to-Recycle Plastic Waste into High-Quality, Food-Grade PET

The Coca-Cola Company has announced a new agreement extending a loan to Ioniqa Technologies (The Netherlands) to facilitate the development of Ioniqa’s proprietary technology to produce high-grade, recycled PET content from hard-to-recycle PET waste. The agreement is designed to accelerate the development and deployment of high-grade recycled content PET for use in bottles used by The Coca-Cola Company. This investment supports the company’s global vision to work toward a World Without Waste, which includes a goal to create packaging made of at least 50% recycled material by 2030. The new technology…

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New South African SRO joins ICAS

On 1 January 2019, the recently established Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) of South Africa became a member of the International Council for Advertising Self-Regulation (ICAS) in replacement of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the former Self-Regulatory Organization responsible for implementing advertising standards in the South African market. In November 2018, the ARB was launched to take over the work of administering the Code of Advertising Practice on behalf of the advertising and marketing industry, following the forced placement of the ASA into liquidation proceedings at the end of September. The…

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ASA/CAP – Wait a minute, Mr Postman – Delivery charges in ads

The ASA/CAP have released a post which talks called Wait a minute, Mr Postman – Delivery charges in ads.  I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Internet shopping has a lot going for it. Along with avoiding the crowds, you can also find what you want, when you want and then instantly compare the prices with other businesses. With internet shopping becoming part…

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Lush open their first Naked shop in the UK

On Friday, 18th January 2019, the Lush shop on 10 Market Street, Manchester opened its doors again after a renovation into the first plastic packaging-free cosmetics shop in the country. With awareness of plastic pollution at an all time high, Lush’s newest Naked shop will host an abundance of innovative and plastic packaging-free alternatives to your favourite cosmetics – from the classics, such as solid shampoo bars and soaps, to new naked skincare innovations. And, rather than scanning labels for information, visitors to the shop will instead be able to scan…

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