Day: 20 July 2023

M&S removes use by dates on ‘too good to waste’ RSPCA Assured fresh milk

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer has removed ‘Use By’ dates across its RSPCA Assured Select Farms British and organic fresh milk as part of its commitment to halving food waste by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2040. The change, which is being rolled out across all M&S UK stores from this week, will see ‘Use By’ dates on fresh milk replaced with ‘Best Before’ dates. M&S is the first retailer to offer ‘Best Before’ labelling on fully recyclable milk bottles, following the removal of coloured plastic caps on milk earlier this…

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GARM starts work on Media Sustainability

Stuart Mitchell

The WFA’s GARM is creating a new workstream designed to focus attention on Sustainability. The goal: to repeat the success of its Brand Safety and Suitability work and to create a cross-industry collaboration that designs voluntary frameworks that will reduce our industry’s impact on the planet. The effort forms part of WFA’s membership of Ad Net Zero and delivering on its goals of building an industry-wide approach to measure the carbon emissions of media campaigns. It will sit alongside WFA’s Planet Pledge and the sustainability goals expressed in the WFA’s…

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EcoPulse demonstrator takes shape ahead of Paris Airshow

Stuart Mitchell

EcoPulse is a Distributed Hybrid-Electric Propulsion aircraft demonstrator jointly developed by Airbus, Daher and Safran. Based on Daher’s TBM light-aircraft platform, this project kick-started in 2019 with an announcement at Le Bourget, supported by CORAC* (the French Civil Aviation Research Council) and co-funded by the French Government and the EU.  The objective is to advance technology “techno-bricks” which could contribute to the decarbonisation efforts of the aviation industry. In particular, the demonstrator will evaluate the advantages of distributed propulsion, onboard overall energy efficiency (fuel reduction) and high-voltage electrical propulsion and battery…

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ICO warns of “real danger” of discrimination in new technologies that monitor the brain

Stuart Mitchell

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is warning that newly emerging neurotechnologies risk discriminating against people if those groups are not put at the heart of their development. The regulator predicts that the use of technology to monitor neurodata, the information coming directly from the brain and nervous system, will become widespread over the next decade. Neurotech is already used in the healthcare sector, where there are strict regulations. It can predict, diagnose, and treat complex physical and mental illnesses, transforming a person’s responses to illnesses such as dementia and Parkinson’s…

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Ørsted commits to reuse or recycle all solar panels

Stuart Mitchell

Ørsted is the world’s first energy developer to commit to reuse or recycle all solar panels from its global portfolio of solar farms with immediate effect. Solar energy is a key technology for the green energy transition and for limiting global warming. The deployment of this technology requires vast amounts of virgin materials. The mining of these has environmental and social impacts, and competition to secure access to these materials is on the rise. To lower dependency on virgin materials, a key solution is to reuse or recycle end-of-life solar…

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