Day: 7 August 2022

Channel 4 To Support Indies In Drive To Increase Talent From Under Represented Groups

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 is partnering with TV Talent company Gritty Talent to help indies build more diverse senior teams, in the wake of the broadcaster’s new Commissioning Guidelines published last month. The new requirements are part of the legacy of Channel 4’s The Black to Front Project to help transform on and off screen opportunities for diverse as well as disabled talent in TV. Channel 4’s new guidelines now require all the indies it works with to have ethnically diverse as well as disabled off screen talent on production teams, with…

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U.S. Plastics Pact’s Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award Helps Businesses Gain Critical Exposure through Walmart to Scale Circular Solutions

Stuart Mitchell

The U.S. Plastics Pact is leveraging Walmart’s Circular Connector to showcase businesses helping to keep plastic packaging in the economy and out of the environment and help make progress on the U.S. Pact’s four targets. “Eliminating problematic and unnecessary plastic packaging and taking other actions to ensure that 100% of plastic packaging is reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025 are focal points of the U.S. Plastics Pact’s work. We are proud to partner with Walmart’s Circular Connector to help advance packaging solutions that contribute to a circular economy,” said U.S.…

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Aii Announces Lead Funders for New $250M Fashion Climate Fund, Uniting Brands, Philanthropic Donors, and Industry Stakeholders

Stuart Mitchell

Apparel Impact Institute (Aii), the nonprofit organization dedicated to operationalizing and accelerating climate action and sustainability solutions in fashion, announced today the lead funders in its new $250M Fashion Climate Fund: Lululemon, H&M Group, H&M Foundation, and The Schmidt Family Foundation. Aii and its lead partners have established the Fashion Climate Fund to drive collective action to tackle fashion’s supply chain emissions. By leveraging a first-of-its-kind collaborative funding model for fashion between philanthropy and corporate entities, the Fund could unlock an estimated $2B in blended capital across various asset classes,…

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Sainsbury’s innovates own-brand toilet rolls reducing plastic by 30%

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s has announced the launch of its new own-brand double length toilet rolls, designed to help customers reduce plastic waste at home. The new multipack rolls include double the number of sheets on each roll compared to the retailer’s standard offerings and on average use 30% less plastic. The products are available across Sainsbury’s ‘Super Soft’ and ‘House 247’ ranges. The double toilet rolls are estimated to save a total of 84 tonnes of plastic and 164 tonnes of cardboard from card cores (50%). By fitting more paper onto each…

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SSE Renewables, Microsoft and Avanade are creating digital twins that could reshape windfarms and the environment around them

Stuart Mitchell

The way windfarms are built could be changed forever by a new project that uses real-time data to understand the effect turbines have on local wildlife and ecosystems. SSE Renewables, Microsoft and Avanade are working together to create Azure Digital Twins of offshore windfarms and their local environment, which they hope will encourage the sector to develop renewable energy solutions that have a positive impact on ecosystems. A digital twin is an exact replica of an object in the physical world that can be studied and changed to help improve…

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