Day: 29 July 2023

Deliveroo Funding Thousands Of Restaurant Meals For LGBTQ+ People Experiencing Homelessness Who Tell Staff “I’m A Friend Of Dorothy” As New Data Shows Increase In Case Numbers

Stuart Mitchell

Deliveroo and its restaurant partners and LGBTQ+ youth homelessness charity Albert Kennedy Trust (akt) have joined forces to provide free meals to members of the LGBTQ+ community who find themselves in a homeless or vulnerable situation when it comes to affording food or shelter. The move for Deliveroo to fund the free meals follows new data from the akt charity, revealing referrals have increased by 58% within the last three years. Previously, data from 2021 by akt revealed that 24% of homeless people identify as LGBTQ+ with 77% believing coming…

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Australian Fashion and Clothing Industry Launches Roadmap to Circularity by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

Some of Australia’s major fashion and clothing brands have committed to be foundation members of a national stewardship scheme that aims to make Australian fashion and clothing truly circular, and significantly reduce the 200,000 tonnes of clothing that currently goes to Australian landfill each year. Launched by the Minister for Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek, the National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme design and the Roadmap to Clothing Circularity, will drive the industry towards clothing circularity by 2030 through: Incentivising clothing design that is more durable, repairable, sustainable and recyclable. Fostering…

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UKFT launches textile recycling infrastructure and circular fashion projects

Stuart Mitchell

UKFT is working with a wide range of industry partners from throughout the UK supply chain on a series of government-funded projects focused on textile recycling infrastructure, circular fashion and sustainable manufacturing. The first is a £4 million project to develop and pilot a pioneering fully-integrated, automated sorting and pre-processing demonstrator for waste textiles (ATSP), which could eventually divert thousands of tonnes from landfill each year. The Autosort for Circular Textiles Demonstrator (ACT UK) is a two-year project that will support the transition from uneconomic manual sorting of clothes and…

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Harriet Lamb named Champion 12.3

Stuart Mitchell

Environmentalist and social rights campaigner Harriet Lamb has become the newest United Nation’s Champion 12.3, in her role as CEO of international climate action NGO WRAP. Harriet said of her appointment, “We need total transformation of our food and drink systems to stand any chance of achieving zero carbon and limiting the worst impacts of the climate crisis. This is the challenge of our generation. We have taken big strides in reducing food waste, and while we’re breaking new ground improving water efficiency and reducing GHG emissions from food, we…

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Charlie Banana Launches New Collection of Reusable Diapering Products, Taking Eco-Conscious & Cute to a Whole New Level

Stuart Mitchell

For more than a decade, Charlie Banana’s reusable cloth and swim diapers have been caring for babies’ bottoms while helping families reduce their household waste. Now the brand is delighting its fans with a collection of 13 playful new designs, while also upgrading most of its packaging to fully-recyclable FSC-certified paper. Known for being gentle on baby’s skin and the planet, Charlie Banana recognizes that going reusable is not always an easy choice for busy moms and dads. This is why the brand has created a reusable diapering system that…

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