Month: December 2024

The Green Team appoint Julia Duncan as Co-CEO

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Team have announced the appointment of Julia Duncan in a Co-CEO role with a specific remit for Corporate Development. The role will complement the extensive operational experience of existing CEO, Penny Radway who will continue in post. Julia brings over 30 years’ experience of developing long-lasting, innovative and diverse programmes of environmental action / volunteering for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, across Scotland. Her career includes 10 years as Business Development Manager for The Conservation Volunteers and 16 years as Outdoor Action Manager for The National…

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WRAP urges hospitality and food service CEOs and leaders to take a stand against food waste

Stuart Mitchell

The hospitality and food service (HaFS) sector throws away 1.1 million tonnes of food every year. 75% of this food could have been eaten, costing businesses and organisations £3.2 billion. Guardians of Grub, a food waste prevention programme for HaFS delivered by global environmental action NGO WRAP, is calling on the sector’s CEOs and directors to rise up and lead the way in tackling food waste, ensuring that all food purchased is eaten and not binned. Currently, almost one fifth of food purchased by the sector is thrown away.  November…

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Enjoy Breakfast Your Way this autumn and winter with Nestle and FareShare

Stuart Mitchell

This autumn, Nestlé are once again donating thousands more jars of Nescafé Coffee and boxes of Shreddies to FareShare to go towards breakfast for people across the UK. “We are enormously grateful to the team at Nestlé UK & Cereal Partners UK for their continued support for FareShare and launching the “Enjoy Breakfast Your Way” campaign this autumn. For nearly 20 years, Nestlé UK has been providing their surplus products to help support our network of over 8,000 charities across the UK, including after school and breakfast clubs, hospices, domestic…

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The world’s first 100% “fiber-to-fiber” biorecycled clothing unveiled by multi-brand consortium: CARBIOS, On, Patagonia, PUMA, PVH Corp. and Salomon

Stuart Mitchell

CARBIOS, a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies to reinvent the life cycle of plastic and textiles, and its “fiber-to-fiber” consortium partners On, Patagonia, PUMA, Salomon, and PVH Corp., parent company of Calvin Klein, unveil the world’s first enzymatically recycled polyester garment made from 100% textile waste using CARBIOS’ pioneering biorecycling technology.  This technological feat contributes to advancing textile circularity when, today, the majority of recycled polyester is made from PET bottles, and only 1% of fibers are recycled into new fibers.  The collective achievement marks an…

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The LEGO Group celebrates five years of LEGO® Replay brick reuse program

Stuart Mitchell

To commemorate the 5th anniversary of LEGO® Replay, a circularity program that enables consumers to donate used LEGO bricks for cleaning and repackaging for reuse, the LEGO Group held celebratory events in Boston, Massachusetts, and Richmond, Virginia, in partnership with local Boys & Girls Clubs. In addition to engaging kids in a special building activity, LEGO employees helped distribute LEGO Replay boxes to area educators and community groups, in partnership with educational equity nonprofit First Book. The LEGO Replay program collects previously used LEGO bricks directly from consumers, cleans and…

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