Day: 1 February 2019

Nestlé accelerates action to tackle plastic waste

Stuart Mitchell

Nestlé has laid out its broader vision to achieve a waste-free future and announced a series of specific actions towards meeting its April 2018 commitment to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025, with a particular focus on avoiding plastic-waste. Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider said, “Our broader vision and action plan outline our commitment and specific approach to addressing the plastics packaging waste issue. While we are committed to pursuing recycling options where feasible, we know that 100% recyclability is not enough to successfully tackle the plastics…

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New global alliance commits over $1.0 billion USD to help end plastic waste in the environment; sets goal of investing $1.5 billion USD

Stuart Mitchell

The cross value chain Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW), currently made up of nearly thirty member companies, has committed over $1.0 billion with the goal of investing $1.5 billion over the next five years to help end plastic waste in the environment. The Alliance will develop and bring to scale solutions that will minimize and manage plastic waste and promote solutions for used plastics by helping to enable a circular economy. The Alliance membership represents global companies and located throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa,…

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PR agency heads positive for industry; overwhelmingly negative for UK economy in 2019

Stuart Mitchell

The PRCA has revealed the findings of the Consultancy Barometer Q4 2018 survey, in which PR agency heads are surveyed on business confidence, client budgets, and staff recruitment. In the last quarter, agency heads were positive about the industry’s outlook for 2019, but were overwhelmingly negative about the state of the UK economy. The key findings are: 34% of agency heads reported that clients had marginally or significantly increased their budgets. 44% of respondents said that budgets had stayed the same, and only 3% said that budgets had decreased significantly.…

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WaterAid announces new Global Director of Policy and Campaigns

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid is pleased to announce the appointment of Sol Oyuela as Global Director of Policy and Campaigns. Ms Oyuela will join WaterAid on 1 April. Ms Oyuela joins from Unicef UK where she has been Director of Advocacy and Public Affairs for the last five years. She has also held senior roles at Christian Aid, CAFOD and Progressio, focused on advocacy, climate change policy and water resource management. Earlier in her career, she was a policy advisor to the Embassy of Argentina to the Vatican.  At WaterAid she will lead the global policy, advocacy and campaigns team, with a base in London.  Ms Oyuela said:   “I’m excited to join…

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NSC Receives Grant from The UPS Foundation to Promote Women in Safety

Stuart Mitchell

The National Safety Council has received a $25,000 grant from The UPS Foundation to promote women in safety. In the U.S., women are 47 percent of the workforce. But they are only 18% of health and safety professionals. In addition, males in the industry tend to have longer tenure, hold higher-level positions in their organizations and/or are more likely to directly supervise other staff. “Today more women than men earn bachelor’s degrees, but women are still underrepresented in STEM fields,” said Nick Smith, interim president and CEO of the National…

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