Day: 27 June 2019

More Than Half of U.S. Adults Are Unsure About How to Recycle: PepsiCo Recycling is Changing That…Starting in K-12 Classrooms

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo Recycling have announced that, through the Recycle Rally – a free program designed to educate and instill recycling behaviors at K-12 schools across the United States – nearly 10 million pounds of waste material was diverted from landfills during the 2018-19 academic year.  Since launching in 2010, Recycle Rally has facilitated collections of close to 500 million recyclable containers.  Participating schools in the Recycle Rally compete in an annual recycling contest and the schools who collect the most recyclables win funding for sustainability initiatives or other important projects.  This…

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CTF Ambassador programme to link millions of young people with their money

Stuart Mitchell

The Share Foundation – the charity which runs the Child Trust Fund (CTF) and Junior ISA schemes for young people in care in the UK on behalf of the Department for Education – is launching a new campaign to raise general awareness of the CTF. CTFs were put in place for all children born between 1 September 2002 and 2 January 2011 provided they were living in the UK and not subject to immigration controls. This equates to over six million CTFs created, worth over £9 billion. It’s estimated over…

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ASA/CAP – Banning ads for HFSS food appearing in children’s online media

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Banning ads for HFSS food appearing in children’s online media. 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. Today we’ve published the results of a compliance sweep which used new “Avatar” monitoring technology to identify ads for food and soft drink products high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) which appeared on children’s websites and YouTube channels.…

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Celebrating Green Innovators – Winners Of The 2019 Green Awards Announced #celebratechange

Stuart Mitchell

The 2019 GREEN AWARDS’ staged a star-studded gala at the iconic Tempelhof Airport, Berlin as part of the Greentech Festival – a three-day event to promote world-class sustainable innovation with a focus on green tech hosted by former F1 world championship winner Nico Rosberg.  The award’s mission is to support and connect visionaries, private individuals, start-ups, as well as mid-sized and large companies that are committed to sustainability. This year it welcomed laudations by H.R.H Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway and other distinguished guests who walked the aptly named ‘green…

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mcgarrybowen Chicago launches “Culturally Competent Healthcare” campaign for Howard Brown Health Center

Stuart Mitchell

mcgarrybowen Chicago has launched the “Culturally Competent Healthcare” campaign  for Howard Brown Health Center, the Chicago-based healthcare center that focuses on eliminating disparities experienced by LGBTQ people and others who are medically underserved in healthcare. “These ads have an authentic voice and feature vivid images of real people – the very people we help at Howard Brown each and every day. The ads tap into the real world bias that many in the community face when accessing healthcare elsewhere, and will raise awareness about the stigma-free experience they can expect…

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