Year: 2020

HP Accelerates Drive to Reduce Ocean Plastics with Expanded Planet Partners Program

Stuart Mitchell

HP Inc. has announced the expansion of its Planet Partners supplies return and recycling program to 68 countries, including Argentina, Chile, and Papua New Guinea. Expanding HP’s OEM printing supplies recycling program into new markets furthers the company’s long-standing commitment to driving a circular and low carbon economy with its partners and customers. The HP Planet Partners program makes sustainable choices easier for HP customers, enabling them to take simple steps towards achieving their own goals to reduce waste. To date, the program has recycled over 875 million HP ink…

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What works to support diversity in arts and culture? Insights from roundtable 5 of the APPG for Creative Diversity

Stuart Mitchell

October was the fifth meeting of the APPG for Creative Diversity, concentrating on artistic and cultural organisations. This, like many other parts of creative industries, is a vast and varied sector, with a complex mix of funding and business models, organisations of differing sizes, and freelancers and the permanently employed. As we’ve seen in previous sessions, there were familiar themes. For this blogpost we’re going to pick up on four: the importance of equality and diversity as a category; the importance of data and monitoring; the need for cultural change,…

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WRAP statement on PAS 9017 Plastics. Biodegradation of polyolefins in an open-air terrestrial environment

Stuart Mitchell

WRAP believes that Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) are helpful to industry by defining categories of products and helping to drive quality and support innovation. With any PAS it is important to understand its parameters.    WRAP was represented on the steering group for the development of PAS9017 ‘Biodegradation of polyolefins in an open-air terrestrial environment’ and the chance to make representations about issues it could foresee relating to the PAS.  WRAP is awaiting some further information with regards to these representations and at this time should clarify that WRAP being…

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City of London Corporation set to become a world leader in climate change fight

Stuart Mitchell

New plans to make the Square Mile a global leader in the fight against climate change have been agreed today as the City of London Corporation unveiled its radical Climate Action Strategy. The scheme will make the Square Mile net zero carbon-emission by 2040, 10 years earlier than government goals. With a plan founded on science-based targets, the City Corporation’s Climate Action Strategy will invest £68 million fighting climate change over the first six years, creating 800 green jobs. Updated City planning regulations will ensure new developments include carbon reduction…

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Green power deal supercharges Lotus’ net-zero ambitions

Stuart Mitchell

Lotus and British Gas Business have embarked on a new green electricity deal, which sees the UK’s largest energy supplier provide renewable power to the sports car maker’s headquarters and supporting facilities. The contract, which began on 1 October, is REGO-backed (Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin), where the power is purchased from 100% renewable sources, ensuring the electricity used across Lotus’ UK sites is carbon neutral. As a flexible contract, Lotus can also develop its own renewable assets on sites to self-support its power needs and further its green credentials.…

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