Day: 27 August 2024

IPA, APA and ISBA unite to improve production pitch process

Stuart Mitchell

The IPA, APA and ISBA have launched a new Production Pitch Process Initiative to help improve the production pitching experience for all sides. The Pitch Process Initiative features a number of principles and associated key actions for all parties to agree upon. They have been developed in acknowledgment of the increasing pressures on all parties, with the document stating that: From a production company perspective, the level of investment currently required is not sustainable. For agencies, project-based versus retained working, more nontraditional deliverables and smaller time and budget parameters have…

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Berry’s New, World-Class Recycling Facility Named ‘Plastics Recycling Business of the Year’

Stuart Mitchell

Berry Global Group, Inc.‘s new, world-class ‘Berry Circular Polymers’ recycling facility in Leamington Spa, UK has been named the Plastics Recycling Business of the Year by letsrecycle.com at the 2024 Awards for Excellence in Recycling and Waste Management. Recognising innovation, dedication, and success among the recycling and waste industry, local authorities, and the wider sector, this award underscores Berry’s commitment to advancing a circular, net-zero economy using its proprietary, closed-loop CleanStream technology. “As one of the global sustainable packaging leaders, we’re invested in lowering our carbon footprint and increasing the…

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Can the UK become a nation of co-operators? – Co-op unveils bold new brand platform

Stuart Mitchell

The 180-year-old original and world’s first successful cooperative, The Co-op Group, launches one of its biggest ever campaigns to encourage the UK into a nation of co-operators, whereby the benefits both financially and socially of a cooperative business model are explained and embraced. The ‘Owned by You. Right By You’ campaign is launched as a new survey* reveals that over 50% of consumers admit they don’t understand what it means when a business is a co-operative or a mutual and two fifths (42%) admit they don’t understand what constitutes a…

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UK off track for Net Zero, say country’s climate advisors

Stuart Mitchell

The Climate Change Committee’s assessment is that only a third of the emissions reductions required to achieve the country’s 2030 target are currently covered by credible plans. Our 2030 target is the first one set in line with a Net Zero trajectory. This news comes against the backdrop of a more positive story – that the country’s emissions are now less than half the levels they were in 1990. This is largely due to the phase out of coal and the ramping up of renewables. This project has been a…

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AWS, Digital Realty, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Schneider Electric Call for Supplier Action to Help Decarbonize Digital Infrastructure

Stuart Mitchell

The Governing Body of the iMasons Climate Accord, a program of Infrastructure Masons, is calling on all suppliers serving data centers to support greater transparency in Scope 3 emissions as part of broader efforts to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint. Consisting of AWS, Digital Realty, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Schneider Electric, the Governing Body released an open letter today that explains the importance of widespread adoption of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), which are standardized, third-party-verified documents reporting the embodied emissions of a product. EPDs outline the greenhouse gas emissions of…

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