Day: 4 August 2020

PepsiCo Releases 2019 Sustainability Report; Highlights Progress Toward Helping to Build a More Sustainable Food System

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo, Inc. has published its 2019 Sustainability Report, highlighting progress toward its sustainability goals and reaffirming the company’s agenda to help build a more sustainable food system. “Today’s global environmental and societal pressures are bringing into sharp focus the need for systemic change,” said Ramon Laguarta, PepsiCo’s CEO and Chairman. “These challenges not only require deeper commitment from the private sector, they also require demonstrated and sustained action. As a global food and beverage leader, we have a responsibility to use our scale and influence to help tackle long-term challenges,…

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Walgreens Boots Alliance Joins United Nations Global Compact Initiative

Stuart Mitchell

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), a global leader in retail and wholesale pharmacy, is pleased to announce that it has joined the United Nations Global Compact Initiative, a voluntary leadership platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible business practices. The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “We…

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New Hanes #MaskAround Campaign Encourages Americans to Wear Face Masks as Brand Donates 1 Million Masks to Those Experiencing Homelessness

Stuart Mitchell

Hanes, is underscoring the importance of wearing a face mask in public with the launch of its #MaskAround campaign. Hanes is also donating 1 million masks to those experiencing homelessness across the country. According to a survey commissioned by Hanes[1], 51% of Americans wear a face mask all the time when outside their homes, while 71% wear a mask to a grocery store or retail location. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises that cloth face coverings are a critical tool in the fight against COVID-19 that could…

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Study confirms need for urgent transition to a circular economy for plastic

Stuart Mitchell

The Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ have released Breaking the Plastic Wave, one of the most comprehensive and analytically robust studies ever produced on ocean plastics. As a thought partner of the report the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, along with University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and Common Seas, has contributed its expertise on the circular economy and the plastics value chain. Read our perspective here. Breaking the Plastic Wave shows that plastic pollution is rapidly outpacing efforts to stop it. By 2040, if we fail to act, the volume of…

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CAP – Food supplements, COVID-19 and the immune system

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: CAP – Food supplements, COVID-19 and the immune system . 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. We’re all interested in doing everything we can to stay healthy and well at the moment, and in response many advertisers are choosing to highlight the health benefits that substances in their foods, drinks and food supplements can provide. But…

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