Month: June 2025

Companies can clear out their old tech and cash in with O2 Recycle for Business

Stuart Mitchell

Almost 45,000 devices have been saved from waste thanks to O2 Recycle for Business.  Since the scheme’s relaunch in October 2023, companies across the UK have traded in thousands of unwanted smartphones and tablets, earning nearly £330,000.   The tech has been data wiped, and then repaired, refurbished and resold, or recycled – with zero parts going to landfill, helping prevent electronic waste (e-waste).  The O2 Recycle for Business service helps companies of all sizes, regardless of their mobile provider, trade in their old technology – where they can receive cashback,…

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CDP Sets Sights on Impact: Organizational Changes to Accelerate Decision-Useful Disclosure

Stuart Mitchell

CDP, the global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system, today announced a strategic organizational shift designed to accelerate its mission of delivering actionable environmental data to enable decisions that matter most for the planet.   The organizational restructure optimizes CDP’s global model and will strengthen key capabilities – particularly in new functions across Product, Growth, Operations and Customer Success – to better service customers and partners and accelerate the next phase of CDP’s strategy.  CDP will direct more of its resources toward innovation and impact, with reinvestment…

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Getty Images Awards $20,000 to Global Storytellers Reshaping Disability Representation

Stuart Mitchell

Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, in partnership with the National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA), today announced the recipients of their latest $20,000 creative grant aimed at advancing authentic representation of the disability community in professional settings. According to Getty Images’ VisualGPS research, 71% of global consumers want to see people with disabilities represented in everyday social and professional settings. Yet currently, the majority of visuals – 3 out of 4 – depict people with disabilities primarily in healthcare environments. This highlights a meaningful opportunity to…

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Scientist Whose Biological Seed Treatments Helped Make Brazil A Global Breadbasket Named 2025 World Food Prize Laureate

Stuart Mitchell

Dr. Mariangela Hungria will receive the new World Food Prize Laureate $500,000 award for her work to harness biological processes to sustainably improve crop nutrition, yields and productivity. A scientist whose discoveries helped Brazil become a global agricultural powerhouse has been named the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate. Dr. Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist from São Paulo, has developed dozens of biological seed and soil treatments that help crops source nutrients through soil bacteria, significantly increasing yields of major crops while also reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer. Her products are…

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New GRECO project on greener and safer bioplastics for food packaging

Stuart Mitchell

The new Horizon Europe-funded GRECO project provides innovative biobased, biodegradable and recyclable food packaging based on novel PLA copolymers, functional coatings, additives and green catalysts. GRECO aims to demonstrate the life cycle and techno-economic feasibility of greener and safer bioplastics value chains for the food packaging sector, based on a safe and sustainable-by-design strategy.   The GRECO project kick-off will take place in Valencia, at AIMPLAS, on 16-17 June 2025. European Bioplastics and its members, including TotalEnergies Corbion, AIMPLAS, and INNOTECH COEXPAN-EMSUR, are among the 22 partners that have joined forces…

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