Day: 2 November 2019

#SecondHandSeptember slashes UK shoppers’ carbon footprint by 1500 tonnes – the same emissions equivalent to driving a car around the world 200 times

Stuart Mitchell

Tens of thousands of people have made a difference tackling climate change by pledging to only buy preloved clothing during Oxfam’s #SecondHandSeptember campaign. More than 62,000 people took the #SecondHandSeptember pledge, including a host of famous faces – top designers Vivienne Westwood and Henry Holland, fashion icon and singer Paloma Faith, models Stella Tennant, Lily Cole and Georgia Jagger, and actress Rachel Weisz. Oxfam hopes the campaign will increase general awareness and encourage people to modify their shopping habits as a step towards more sustainable consumption. In one month, more…

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‘Amazon Future Engineer’ Launches in the UK to Help Children and Young Adults from Low-Income Backgrounds Build Careers in Computer Science

Stuart Mitchell

The UK needs an additional 38,000 workers with computer science-related skills, including 21,000 computer science graduates, to meet labour demands every year – or the economy could lose out on an estimated £33 billion a year by 2030, according to new research by Capital Economics. To help close that gap, Amazon is launching Amazon Future Engineer in the UK – a comprehensive childhood-to-career programme to inspire, educate and enable children and young adults to try computer science. By supporting the recruitment and training of 50 secondary school computer science teachers…

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Asda moves own-brand fresh ready meals range to recyclable packaging

Stuart Mitchell

In-line with its ongoing commitment to ‘use less and recycle more’, Asda is today announcing it will become the first supermarket to move its entire own brand fresh ready meal range into fully recyclable packaging, with the use of a new tray made from recycled materials. Launching nationwide from 3rd November, 97 of Asda’s fresh ready meal lines will move to new ‘Evolve’ by Faerch trays, made from natural cPET – a form of detectable and recyclable plastic. The move will transform 775 tonnes of plastic and 45 million ready…

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The Prince’s Trust partner with NATIVITY! The Musical for their third year in London

Stuart Mitchell

The Prince’s Trust are excited to be the official charity partner for NATIVITY! The Musical. Funds will be raised to help more young people achieve incredible things through the support of our programmes. The show is based on the smash-hit films of the same name and include all of your favourite songs such as Sparkle and Shine, Nazareth and One Night One Moment. This year the show stars Prince’s Trust Ambassadors Sharon Osbourne and Danny Dyer, along with his daughter Dani, TV and radio presenter Rylan Clark-Neal and West End…

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Subaru Loves the Earth Recycling Program Expands to More Than 160 REI Stores Nationwide

Stuart Mitchell

Subaru of America, Inc. has announced that stemming from the overwhelming success of its Subaru Loves the Earth initiative, which achieved the recent recycling milestone of diverting more than two million pieces of waste from landfills, the automaker is bringing its robust recycling program in-store to REI retailers nationwide. Employing the TerraCycle® Zero Waste Box™ platform that Subaru retailers across the country have used to encourage recycling, the automaker will leverage these boxes to support REI’s 2019 #OptOutside initiative. This year, REI is taking its annual anti-Black Friday effort one…

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