Day: 14 July 2023

Latest Third Sector Trends report launched

Stuart Mitchell

Last month the Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland launched the final report from Third Sector Trends 2022 at The Mercers Hall in London. Attendees were welcomed by Adam Fenwick, Master Mercer of The Mercers’ Company which generously hosted the evening. Third Sector Trends is the Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland’s ground-breaking study of the scale, dynamics and needs of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector. It started in the North East and Cumbria 15 years ago and has expanded into other regions. Now, for the…

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Two-thirds of all online shopping scams now start on Facebook and Instagram

Stuart Mitchell

Purchase scams starting on Facebook and Instagram are expected to cost UK consumers more than £27m this year alone, according to new analysis by Lloyds Banking Group. The rising popularity of online shopping has been accompanied by a surge in criminals tricking people into paying for goods and services that don’t exist. Victims are lured in by the promise of cut-price or hard-to-find items, often advertised via social media. They are asked to send money directly from their account to another account via bank transfer (also known as a Faster…

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UN Plastic Pollution Treaty ‘one step closer’ to being realized, as negotiators in Paris agree to start developing a draft treaty with global rules to curb plastic pollution

Stuart Mitchell

The second negotiation meeting for the UN Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (INC-2) has provided another important step forward in global efforts to address the worsening plastic crisis. Concluding last month, WWF strongly welcomes the ‘tangible progress’ made in the talks and the agreement by states to develop a first iteration of the treaty text (a ‘zero draft’) ahead of the next round of negotiations taking place in Kenya in November (INC-3). Recently WWF has seen the vast majority of governments actively calling for an ambitious and impactful global…

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Walmart Doubles Down on Reducing Waste To Create More Sustainable Omnichannel Fulfillment Network

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart have announced new steps to help make the everyday choice the more sustainable choice by adopting measures designed to reduce the amount of packaging waste associated with online orders. This includes moving from plastic to recyclable paper mailers, right-sizing cardboard box packaging, giving customers the option to consolidate shipping on eCommerce orders, opting out of single-use plastic bags for online pickup orders and last mile delivery efficiencies to reduce mileage and delivery times. Reducing waste Customers have hundreds of millions of packages shipped from Walmart each year, which is…

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Asda replaces coloured milk bottle tops to recycle over 200 million pieces of plastic a year

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced that it will replace coloured caps with clear caps on all its own label fresh milk, including skimmed, semi-skimmed, whole, organic, and filtered milk. The change will mean that 268 tonnes of High-Density Polythene (rHDPE) can be recycled to make new milk bottles and is part of Asda’s plan to make more of its food packaging recyclable. As a result of this change 207 million plastic milk caps will now be recycled in this way each year. The switch to natural-coloured caps means that they can be…

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