Month: June 2020

Scottish Water’s Dunfermline Works Latest to Go Green

Stuart Mitchell

Dunfermline Waste Water Treatment Works has turned to green energy to boost Scottish Water’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2040. It is the latest Scottish Water site to have solar Photovoltaic (PV) panels installed. Scottish Water Horizons, our commercial subsidiary, invested £300,000 installing 784 PV panels at the work which serves around 81,000 customers in Dunfermline, Inverkeithing, Dalgety Bay, Crossgates, Rosyth and Kingseat. The carbon-reducing technology – which works by converting light into electricity using semi conducting materials – will offset almost ten per cent of the electricity…

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Total adopts a new Climate Ambition to Get to Net Zero by 2050

Stuart Mitchell

Total announces today its ambition to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 together with society for its global business across its production and energy products used by its customers.. Through a joint statement developed between Total S.A. and institutional investors – as participants in the global investor initiative Climate 100+1 – Total takes 3 major steps towards achieving this ambition:  Three major steps to get Total to Net Zero: Net Zero across Total’s worldwide operations by 2050 or sooner (scope 1+2) Net Zero across all its production and energy products…

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Greene King Is The First Pub Company To Achieve The Carbon Trust’s Zero Waste To Landfill Standard

Stuart Mitchell

Greene King, the UK’s leading pub retailer and brewer, is announcing on Stop Food Waste Day, it is the first pub company in the UK to achieve the Carbon Trust’s Zero Waste to Landfill Standard. It has achieved this by diverting all its waste from landfill across all waste streams generated by its 1,700 managed pubs – from food waste to kitchen equipment. Greene King partnered with waste management company SWRnewstar in 2013 and distributor Kuehne + Nagel in 2012 and made the commitment to create a waste recycling solution…

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Remote employee volunteering could offer lifeline to charities across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

This is something I have taken from the blog at Neighbourly, so all appropriate copyright is their’s and please check out their site: Since the onset of strict social distancing measures in March, many charities and community groups have seen an unprecedented increase in demand for their services – along with a reduction in face-to-face volunteering as individuals and families are forced to self-isolate or care for others. With the employee volunteering schemes that usually peak during the spring and summer also facing massive disruption, we knew we needed to…

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7000 posts, thank you

Stuart Mitchell

This week we passed 7000 posts on Ethical Marketing News, so I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who reads us, who has contributed and who is a part of making us the biggest Ethical Marketing resource, thank you, Stuart Marketing in the Time of COVID-19 We don’t do a lot of guest blogs or posts here despite being asked a lot but I’m thinking of doing a series of guest blogs/interviews entitled “Marketing in the time fo COVID-19”. I envision some blogs, or just straight interviews if people…

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