Day: 25 May 2023

Getir reaches one million meal donations

Stuart Mitchell

Getir, the pioneer of ultrafast grocery delivery, has recently reached a milestone of over one million donated meals from its gstores to local good causes through the Neighbourly platform.  The partnership, which has been running for a year, has now seen over 420,000 tonnes of food donated to over 330 good causes, like St Mungo’s Haringey Recovery Service in London, Wycombe Food Hub and Betel Birmingham. By redistributing this food, Getir has saved 1,520 tonnes of CO2 and made a total financial impact of over £1.8M to local communities. The…

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Tesco launches collaborative ready meal tray-to-tray initiative with Faerch Group

Stuart Mitchell

In an industry first, Tesco has begun recycling used plastic food trays back into packaging – creating a fully circular packaging solution for its range of core chilled ready meals. The change is in collaboration with leading packaging manufacturer Faerch and will see customer-recovered PET trays – collected via European kerbside waste – recycled and converted back into food grade plastic trays. Tesco’s ready meal trays already contain up to 75% recycled content, predominantly from cleaner and easier to recycle bottle flake plastic. Through the new Tray 2 Tray by…

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Lloyds Banking Group sets ambitious goal to double the representation of colleagues with disabilities in senior management roles

Stuart Mitchell

Lloyds Banking Group has announced it will set a public goal to increase the representation of senior colleagues with disabilities in the workplace, the first public commitment of its kind to be launched by a UK bank. Currently 6% of the Group’s colleagues at senior management level have reported that they have a disability. The new goal aims to double representation to 12% by 2025.** To achieve this goal, the Group will act to improve the working environment and experience for colleagues with disabilities. This will include a commitment to…

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Channel 4 teams up with We Are Parable for a second year of mentoring programme for Black film and content creators across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 is renewing and expanding its partnership with award-winning organisation We Are Parable following a successful first year of Momentum – a mentoring and training programme for Black TV, film and content creators across the UK. Channel 4 will work with We Are Parable to help progress the careers of people keen to work in the TV and film sectors in cities including Leeds, London, Bristol, Glasgow and Birmingham, and will also expand across Scotland and the Midlands this year. The mentorships offer participants the opportunity to receive one…

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Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025

Stuart Mitchell

Apple has announced a major acceleration of its work to expand recycled materials across its products, including a new 2025 target to use 100 percent recycled cobalt1 in all Apple-designed batteries. Additionally, by 2025, magnets in Apple devices will use entirely recycled rare earth elements, and all Apple-designed printed circuit boards will use 100 percent recycled tin soldering and 100 percent recycled gold plating.  In 2022, the company significantly expanded its use of key recycled metals, and now sources over two-thirds of all aluminium, nearly three-quarters of all rare earths,…

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