Year: 2022

USAID announce new partnership with Prevented Ocean Plastic South East Asia

Stuart Mitchell

At last months Road to G20 event—held as Indonesia prepares to host this year’s G20 summit—the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Clean Cities, Blue Ocean program; impact-focused investment management firm, Circulate Capital; and Prevented Ocean Plastic Southeast Asia, a pioneering plastic recycling company developing sorting and collection infrastructure to underserved communities across Indonesia —announced a new partnership that will expand collection and recycling infrastructure in Indonesia to generate high-quality, traceable recycled plastic to enter into global markets. The partnership will help generate high quality, traceable feedstocks to help meet the…

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Royal Trinity Hospice releases its own debit card allowing supporters to round-up spending into donations

Stuart Mitchell

Royal Trinity Hospice, the oldest hospice in the UK and a charity that cares for 2,500 patients each year, is enabling supporters to make charitable donations via the charity’s own debit card through its partnership with Currensea, which has created a money-saving card linked to existing bank accounts. Customers can now donate to Royal Trinity Hospice when spending both at home and abroad. Donations can be made by rounding up spending to the nearest 5p in the UK or from savings made on overseas transactions via this new branded card…

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IKEA Foundation Grants USD 25 Million to Clean Cooling Collaborative

Stuart Mitchell

Clean Cooling Collaborative, the leading global philanthropic program focused on curbing greenhouse gas emissions from cooling, has announced a $25 million grant from the IKEA Foundation over the next four years to advance solutions for efficient, climate-friendly cooling for all. The IKEA Foundation joins the Clean Cooling Collaborative to support its work to shift governments, industries, and consumers towards using efficient, climate-friendly cooling technologies, help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement and improve billions of lives. “Climate change is fueling record-setting heat waves around the globe,…

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Facebook, Google and Trustpilot fail to filter out fake reviews, Which? finds

Stuart Mitchell

Facebook, Google and Trustpilot can be easily infiltrated with fake reviews as unscrupulous brokers selling them for as little as £4 successfully exploit weaknesses in their systems, a Which? investigation suggests.   The consumer champion’s latest investigation involved setting up a fake business and approaching brokers to boost its pages on the three platforms using bogus five-star reviews – which revealed a sprawling network of fake reviewers on Facebook.  After easily finding a series of ‘fake review brokers’ through Google, Which? signed up to one called Xealme, which can create reviews…

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Rite Aid To Switch To 100% Cage-Free Eggs By Year-End

Stuart Mitchell

Rite Aid, the third-largest pharmacy chain in the United States, has accelerated progress toward its commitment to selling 100% cage-free eggs to year-end 2022. The company had initially pledged to source cage-free eggs across its 2,289 retail locations by 2025. The new commitment expedites the timeline by three years. “We commend Rite Aid for expediting its cage-free timeline to reduce the suffering of egg-laying hens in its supply chains,” says Vicky Bond, President of The Humane League. “We’ve seen a trend among socially responsible companies like Rite-Aid to stop sourcing…

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