Month: April 2019

Nestlé and Veolia join forces to tackle plastics leakage into the environment and develop recycling schemes

Stuart Mitchell

Nestlé and Veolia, the world’s leading resource management company, today announced their collaboration to work on waste collection, sorting and recycling of plastic material, with a particular emphasis on flexible plastic packaging. Projects will focus on eleven priority countries across Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. The partnership will also explore technologies to establish viable models of recycling in different countries. This includes chemical recycling technologies like pyrolysis, which is capable to produce virgin quality plastic. These technologies will help Nestlé to increase the recycled content of its bottled water…

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SDGs and Her Initiative announces the winners of 2019 global competition

Stuart Mitchell

The global SDGs and Her Competition announced the winners of the 2019 global competition. The contest– co-sponsored by the World Bank Group, UNDP, UN Women, and the Wharton School’s Zicklin Center– showcases women micro-entrepreneurs who are helping to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their business operations. The winning entries are Taxshe, owned by Vandana Suri from India, and Green Business Innovation, owned by Saida Yusupova from Uzbekistan.   TaxShe is an exclusive, all-women, driver-on-demand service that provides transportation services to school children and women workers, making day-time and late-night travel safe. Based in Bangalore, TaxShe selects drivers from marginalized…

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National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect launches campaign encouraging everyone to be louder than silence

Stuart Mitchell

The first step in solving any problem is to talk about it. The National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect ( EndCAN) takes a new step toward breaking the silence that holds us back from ending child abuse. This April, for National Child Abuse Prevention Month, they are going to break the silence around child abuse and neglect by launching “Louder than Silence.” Our goal is to ignite a movement embracing survivors, neighbors, family and friends even those who have abused.  Your voices can be a whisper or a…

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Toyota’s support of family literacy in America reaches $50 million

Stuart Mitchell

To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), Toyota is donating $1 million to help break generational cycles of poverty through family literacy in the nation’s capital and northern Alabama. This new donation brings Toyota’s total contribution over its 28-year partnership with NCFL to $50 million. To date, 420 Toyota Family Learning Centers have impacted more than 4.5 million parents and children across the U.S. “Education is key to a successful career,” said Toyota Motor North America CEO Jim Lentz. “I have seen the…

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John Lewis Partnership pledges net zero carbon emissions by 2050

Stuart Mitchell

The John Lewis Partnership has announced it will reduce its operational greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 at the latest, without purchasing offsets, in line with the pathway set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to limit global warming to 1.5C. The Partnership will initially focus on making significant emissions reductions in the vital period of the next ten years to decarbonise its operations as much as possible as quickly as possible. By 2028, it will remove a third of carbon from its operations through a…

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