Year: 2019

Thousands Of Pupils Join Campaign To Cut Single-Use Plastic In UK Schools

Stuart Mitchell

Thousands of primary and secondary school pupils have joined a major new campaign to drastically cut the consumption of single-use plastic in UK schools. More than 7,000 pupils, across 12 schools, have signed up to  Plastic Pioneers – a campaign led by environmental charity Hubbub, and sponsored by retailers  TK Maxx and Homesense. The schools benefit  from being  part  of a community stretching from Scotland to the south coast, sharing ideas on how to reduce their consumption of single-use plastic. As part of the campaign, pupils form a Plastic Pioneers…

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ASA – Play your part in making ads responsible

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Play your part in making ads responsible. 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. The Advertising Standards Authority is the UK regulator of advertising across all media, including online. Our work includes acting on complaints and taking proactive action against misleading, harmful, offensive or otherwise irresponsible ads. ASA Council members rule on the acceptability of ads and…

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DuPont Announces 2030 Sustainability Goals

Stuart Mitchell

DuPont has announced its 2030 Sustainability Goals, underscoring the importance of sustainability in fulfilling its purpose of delivering essential innovations to help societies thrive. The nine long-term goals are based on a critical assessment of the company’s capabilities coupled with the feedback of customers and stakeholders. The goals also draw inspiration from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to identify the world’s most important problems that need to be solved.  “DuPont’s 2030 goals set forth our priorities and align to the sustainability challenges that offer the greatest opportunity to…

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Henkel invests in recycling innovation for flexible plastics packaging

Stuart Mitchell

Flexible packaging combines the best of many kinds of materials – like plastic, film, paper and aluminum – to create packaging for food and non-foods that provide a number of attributes, such as freshness, safety, light weighting, barrier protection and more. This versatile packaging protects products and slows down the process of spoilage – thus reducing CO2 emissions that are associated with food loss. However, these packages are difficult to recycle by design, often containing two or more different kinds of materials that cannot be returned to separate streams. The…

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O2 joins forces with the Anti-Bullying Alliance to help tackle bullying across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

O2 has announced it has joined forces with the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) ahead of Anti-Bullying Week 2019 (11-15th November), in recognition of the fact that all parts of society have a role to play in preventing and eliminating bullying. As part of this year’s Anti-Bullying Week activity, O2 has worked with ABA to create free cross-curricular resources for primary and secondary schools, featuring tips from O2 Gurus, to help them bring about change. O2 and the ABA have also created a social media toolkit which will be available to other organisations…

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