Month: January 2020

Hi Fly to launch sustainability training for cabin crew

Stuart Mitchell

In what it claims is likely a world-first in the aviation industry, Hi Fly has coupled with its sustainability arm – The Mirpuri Foundation – to ensure the men and women who take to the skies in the Hi Fly uniform, are fully up to date with the important work that the airline and the Foundation have been doing in the sustainability area. Speaking ahead of the Sustainability Workshops, Paulo Mirpuri, Hi Fly and the Mirpuri Foundation President, said: “The first aim of the staff-training programme is to build the…

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New CIPR Board bring “challenge and expertise to help us ensure our focus is on our members”

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has announced the line-up of the Institute’s Board of Directors for 2020. The new Board comprises senior public relations professionals from a range of award-winning consultancies and in-house teams with all three Honorary Officer positions held by women for the second year running. Honorary officers: President: Jenni Field Chart.PR, FCIPR  Vice President: Mandy Pearse Chart.PR, FCIPR Vice President: Emma Leech Found.Chart.PR, FCIPR Elected members: Mike Browne MCIPR Trudy Lewis Chart.PR, MCIPR Eva Maclaine Found.Chart, FCIPR Advita Patel ChartPR FCIPR Steve Shepperson-Smith Chart.PR, MCIPR John Wilkinson Chart.PR, FCIPR Co-opted members: Benjamin Ellis Rachel Roberts Chart.PR Having…

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IVECO Is Helping One of the Largest UK Police Forces Get to Grips With Sustainable Transport

Stuart Mitchell

IVECO UK, the commercial vehicles brand of CNH Industrial N.V., welcomed members of Essex Police’s Commercial Vehicle Unit to its Basildon head office for an in-depth training day on the latest generation of commercial vehicles running on liquefied natural gas (LNG). Essex Police is one of the the largest non-metropolitan police forces in the United Kingdom. The Commercial Vehicle Unit is a designated section of the Essex Roads Policing team, responsible for a 4,500-mile network including major roads, which serve both the county and key arterial routes into the UK’s…

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Kimberly-Clark and UNICEF Extend Huggies® ‘No Baby Unhugged’ Program to Vietnam

Stuart Mitchell

Kimberly-Clark and UNICEF have announced the extension of Huggies® ‘No Baby Unhugged’ program to Vietnam. The partnership will invest $1 million over the next three years to improve neonatal health outcomes in the rural mountainous and central highland provinces of north and central Vietnam and reduce infant mortality. Over the past 25 years, Vietnam has achieved significant improvements in survival rates for children under five years of age, reducing from 52 to 21 deaths per 1,000 live births, between 1990 and 2018. Despite this progress, infant mortality rates in the…

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Citeo, Total, Recycling Technologies, Mars and Nestlé Join Forces to Develop Chemical Recycling of Plastics in France

Stuart Mitchell

As part of Citeo’s call for projects to promote eco-design, recycling and recovery projects for plastic and paper in France, leading international energy company Total, plastic recycling technology provider Recycling Technologies, global brands Nestlé and Mars today joined forces to develop an innovative industrial chemical recycling industry in France. The first-of-a-kind consortium of world-leading players from across the plastic packaging value chain will examine the technical and economic feasibility of recycling complex plastic waste, such as small, flexible and multilayered food-grade packaging. These products are currently considered non-recyclable and are…

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