Day: 9 January 2022

Always Partners with YMCA to Create Sports Grants for Girls During Puberty

Stuart Mitchell

Always has teamed up with the YMCA to create the Always Sports Grant, a new fund providing 1,500 girls access to sports programs in ten states across the country. Sports are a critical way for girls to gain confidence and life-skills that help them later in life. With nearly one in two girls dropping out of sports at puberty, the grants will further Always’ mission to #KeepHerPlaying. This latest donation comes off the back of the Always #KeepHerPlaying campaign, where Always teamed up with Olympic and professional athletes including Elena…

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Lloyds Banking Group launches pioneering £7 million fraud crackdown

Stuart Mitchell

Lloyds Banking Group has joined forces with City of London Police to launch the industry’s first pilot scheme using proceeds of crime to fund a series of fraud fighting and victim support programmes across the country. The ‘frozen’ cash – which is money captured from the fraudsters by the bank’s specialist mule-hunting team – will be invested in several projects to tackle fraud as well as increasing education and awareness to help keep more people safe by stopping scams from happening in the first place.  One of these is expanding…

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Tesco’s plastic packaging reduction programme is on a roll

Stuart Mitchell

A new way of winding toilet paper more tightly onto cardboard tubes is helping Tesco reduce the size of its large multipacks – without changing the number of sheets. The new rolls mean that: Less plastic is needed to pack them Customers won’t get caught short, as they can fit more in their cupboards Double wind rolls will last twice as long on the holder  Tesco needs fewer lorries to transport them In total Tesco will save 67 tonnes of plastic packaging each year as a result of either fitting more…

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ReSource: Plastic Member Companies Eliminated More Than Half of Their Problematic Plastic From 2018-2020; Waste Infrastructure Posed Challenges to Increasing Recycled Content

Stuart Mitchell

A new report from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) finds that Principal Members in the organization’s ReSource: Plastic program – Keurig Dr Pepper, McDonald’s Corporation, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks, and The Coca-Cola Company – cut their use of problematic plastic [1] by 57% between 2018 and 2020. This significant reduction, which totaled 71,000 metric tons, included the elimination or material transformation of hard-to-recycle small items like straws, utensils, and materials like rigid foam and vinyl. The decrease in problematic plastic is one of many metrics highlighting progress published in Transparent 2021, the…

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Mortierbrigade supports Alzheimer Liga Vlaanderen’s fight

Stuart Mitchell

Obliged to deliver the kind of performance demanded of a top athlete: that’s the position those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease suddenly find themselves in. A new campaign developed by mortierbrigade for Alzheimer Liga Vlaanderen pictures an Alzheimer’s patient as a boxer. One who has no choice but to fight every day. Not against an opponent, but against himself. An exhausting fight Paul, who is the face of the campaign, received his Alzheimer’s diagnosis at the age of 65. He shares with us what his fight involves: “I know that a…

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