Day: 26 September 2024

WRAP responds – Extended producer responsibility for packaging illustrative base fees

Stuart Mitchell

Defra recently published information on initial illustrative base fees for the first year of EPR for packaging.  Claire Shrewsbury, Director Insights and Innovation WRAP said, “An EPR scheme for packaging is essential to better manage the enormous range of materials used in packaging, a large proportion of which become waste. It will play a pivotal role in shifting to a circular economy, and a zero-waste world. We welcome the clarity that the publication of these illustrative fees gives to businesses. Now, businesses can better plan their packaging with a greater focus…

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Two in three (66%) UK shoppers prefer to buy products that have a more positive environmental impact, but are unsure how to identify them

Stuart Mitchell

According to a recent Amazon-commissioned study of 2,000 British shoppers, two in three (66%) people would prefer to buy products that have a more positive environmental and social impact, although the same number struggle to identify them, due to confusing product labelling. In fact, UK shoppers find building flat-pack furniture (44%), completing a giant crossword puzzle (35%) and cooking an elaborate dinner party from scratch (31%) easier than figuring out the environmental impacts of products when shopping. As a result, only 7% of Brits say they always understand a product’s…

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Key Enablers to Triple Renewables by 2030: Finance

Stuart Mitchell

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has established that the course to achieve the UAE Consensus energy target remains off track due to persistent structural barriers including a notable shortfall in investment. Although global investment in energy transition technologies reached a new record of USD 1.3 trillion in 2022, it is insufficient to bring about 11.2 Terawatts by 2030 pledged by countries last year. By contrast, fossil fuel capital investments were almost twice those of renewables investments in the same year. With the commitment to triple renewable power generation capacity…

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Reed donates £10,000 per week to charity for a year to celebrate founder’s 90th birthday

Stuart Mitchell

To celebrate Reed’s 65th year of being in business, as well as its Founder Sir Alec Reed’s 90th birthday, Reed Foundation, part of the Reed Group, will be donating £10,000 a week for a year to 52 different charities. Every week, a Reed employee will be drawn randomly to nominate a charity of their choice to receive an incredible donation. This means that by April 2025, the Reed Foundation will have donated a whopping £520,000 on behalf of 52 of its employees. Sir Alec Reed, CBE, Founder of Reed, commented:…

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CAP – The need for speed: Navigating speed claims in broadband & telecoms ads

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: The need for speed: Navigating speed claims in broadband & telecoms ads. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. If a consumer has fallen victim to buffering whilst streaming one of their favourites this Summer, or their latest internet speed test has returned underwhelming results, perhaps they’re in the market for a new broadband deal.   If…

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