Day: 4 March 2020

New guidance to address confusion over compostable plastic packaging

Stuart Mitchell

WRAP, which leads The UK Plastics Pact, has published new guidance to help businesses make informed choices when considering the use of compostable packaging. Based on the products and infrastructure that are available to packaging designers and specifiers today, the guidance identifies key applications and opportunities for compostable plastic packaging. These are often items which are likely to have food residue on them and could potentially facilitate the recycling of food waste. The key potential uses are: Food caddy liners (and other bags such as carrier bags or fruit and…

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Rejuvenation Water appeal collects enough food and drink to create over 15,000 meals for vulnerable people

Stuart Mitchell

Over Christmas soft drinks brand Rejuvenation Water joined forces with FareShare to create a ‘Reverse Advent Calendar,’ asking manufacturers to join them in donating food and drink items to FareShare – which were then redistributed to people in need through FareShare’s network of charities and community groups across the UK. “Rejuvenation Water’s Reverse Advent Calendar helped to make a big difference to thousands of frontline charities supporting vulnerable people this Christmas. We are grateful for their support in helping our mission to fight hunger and food waste across the UK.”Alyson…

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ScotRail Alliance extends charity partnership with MND Scotland

Stuart Mitchell

The ScotRail Alliance has today announced that it is extending its charity partnership with MND Scotland for a further two years. The initial three-year partnership aimed to raise £150,000 to fund vital research, raise awareness of MND, and to help support the people who are living with it. Since 2017, the ScotRail Alliance – a partnership between ScotRail and Network Rail Scotland – has smashed that fundraising target, raising a whopping £255,000 through staff fundraising, customer donations, and gifts in kind such as free advertising at stations and on ScotRail…

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More than a quarter of a million school children experiencing literary poverty

Stuart Mitchell

A child in literary poverty is defined as a child who is read to or with for pleasure, for less than 15 minutes a week outside of school. BookTrust’s latest study shows that 345,000* (14%) school children aged seven to nine are currently falling into this category, with a further 17% on the border, being read to or with for less than half an hour a week. Worryingly, six per cent of children aged 7-9 fall into the worse category of literary poverty, with their parents or guardians never reading to…

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Fairtrade Fortnight 2020 ‘She Deserves’

Stuart Mitchell

The UK is a nation of chocoholics, but many of us don’t know the bitter truth of exploited farmers behind much of the sweet chocolate we enjoy. Fairtrade Fortnight, the annual campaign calling for cocoa farmers to be paid fairly for their work and earn a living income, will run from 24th February – 8th March.  This year Fairtrade’s nationwide ‘She Deserves’ campaign is highlighting the hidden inequality experienced by the women and girls behind the multibillion global chocolate industry. In West Africa, where 60% of the world’s cocoa is grown, the average woman cocoa farmer earns as little…

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