Day: 12 August 2025

UK’s largest grocery retailers set sights on prefill to take more single use packaging off shelf

Stuart Mitchell

Nine of the UK’s largest grocery retailers, with support from UK Governments and WRAP, have recently issued a joint Statement of Intent to explore how reusable packaging could be implemented across their stores and online.  The plan is to offer a system that makes it easy to shop for prefilled* items in stores and online and marks a bold commitment towards a standardised in-store and online system to reduce the amount of single use packaging put on the market, to give shoppers a better experience outside of single use packaging. …

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Charity Bank Launches 2023–2024 Social Impact Report

Stuart Mitchell

Charity Bank is proud to launch its 2023–2024 Social Impact Report. This interactive digital report showcases how their  lending and savings continue to drive meaningful change across the UK.  This is the news article below: Over the past two years, we’ve strengthened our focus on underserved communities, backed organisations responding to the cost-of-living crisis, and broadened our green finance efforts. This report charts our progress against the priorities set out in our 2023–2027 Strategy for Impact, namely, inclusive finance, environmental sustainability and community resilience, and celebrates the tangible outcomes made…

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Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2025 Literary Grants

Stuart Mitchell

Since 2009, Amazon Literary Partnership has provided more than $18 million in funding to local, regional, and national organizations across the country that empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive. At Amazon, we believe in the power of words to transform lives, communities, and the world. We are honored to support these vital and vibrant organizations that support and champion writers. This year, the Amazon Literary Partnership will provide $1 million in funding to 99 literary organizations across the country. From youth-focused writing programs to residency programs, publications…

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Edinburgh International Festival To Be First Charity on Net Zero Pathway

Stuart Mitchell

Edinburgh International Festival is the first charity, and the first arts organisation, in the UK to achieve the British Standards Institute’s (BSI) Net Zero Pathway verification, as part of its commitment to sustainable practice. This achievement underpins the International Festival’s commitment to Net Zero by 2045, in all its activity, from delivering year-round work with workshops, community engagement projects, and support for emerging artists, to an August festival programme that features world-class performers from the worlds of dance, opera, music and theatre. Aligning with BSI’s Net Zero Pathway’s ISO 14064-1…

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INEOS Invests £30 Million to Slash Emissions at Hull Site by 75%

Stuart Mitchell

INEOS has completed a major £30 million investment at its Hull manufacturing site, converting the facility to run on clean-burning hydrogen instead of natural gas. The result? A 75% cut in carbon emissions – the equivalent of taking around 160,000 petrol cars off the road and a huge step towards INEOS’ net zero commitment, well ahead of 2050. This is real progress. Not talk. Not targets. Action. The investment is part of INEOS’ wider strategy to decarbonise its operations across the UK and Europe. INEOS Acetyls is the only industrial…

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