Author: Stuart Mitchell

Staff from national building materials company sleep out to raise around £10,000 for the homeless in Leicester

Stuart Mitchell

Around 40 staff from Heidelberg Materials UK, a leading supplier of heavy building materials to the UK construction industry, will participate in this year’s ‘The Big Sleep’, aiming to raise around £10,000 for the homeless community in Leicester. Heidelberg Materials UK staff from across the UK will join other fundraisers at The Bridge Homelessness to Hope’s annual charity event where people are invited to sleep outside for one night to raise money for, and awareness of the challenges experienced by the city’s homeless community. Heidelberg Materials UK staff will sleep…

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Everyday Plastic and Greenpeace UK unveil nationwide OOH campaign tackling UK plastic consumption

Stuart Mitchell

Everyday Plastic and Greenpeace UK have launched a national out of home (OOH) campaign announcing the results of The Big Plastic Count 2024 which reveals that UK households discard an estimated 90 billion plastic items annually. Just 17% of that waste is recycled domestically. The campaign forms part of Ocean Outdoor’s annual Drops In the Ocean programme which awards advertising space to environmental causes and organisations fighting climate change. Timed to coincide with The Global Plastics Treaty talks (23 – 29 April) and Earth Day (22 April), the OOH campaign is…

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Campaigners launch ground-breaking legal action against European Commission for failing to deliver promised caged farming ban

Stuart Mitchell

The Citizens’ Committee of the successful End the Cage Age European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) has recently launched legal action against the European Commission over its failure to deliver its commitment to ban caged farming. Papers have been filed at the Court of Justice in Luxembourg outlining the Committee’s case demonstrating that the Commission has failed to act on its promise to introduce legislation to ban cages in response to a successful ECI – the first to secure a proper commitment. It further explains that ECIs were introduced with the specific…

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PA Consulting and PulPac welcome LOGOPLASTE investment into the Bottle Collective as the technology partner to accelerate sustainable packaging

Stuart Mitchell

PA Consulting (PA), the company bringing ingenuity to life, and PulPac, the Swedish packaging solutions company behind Dry Molded Fiber, are pleased to announce that LOGOPLASTE, the global provider of innovative and sustainable rigid packaging solutions, has joined the Bottle Collective as the technology partner. The Bottle Collective brings together major brands across industries and leading packaging manufacturers to accelerate progress towards truly sustainable single-use bottles. LOGOPLASTE joins leading global companies Diageo, Haleon, and Sanofi as a member of the Bottle Collective. The Bottle Collective is working to produce bottles that…

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Managing the future of plastic: key recommendations for Government

Stuart Mitchell

Creating a successful circular economy for plastics will help the economy as well as the environment, and the UK Government has a pivotal role to play.   Experts from the University of Birmingham, together with specialists from across different plastics sectors have collaborated on a series of recommendations which calls on Government to take the initiative on finding solutions to the plastics problem.  Their recommendations are published today [Monday 18 March 2024] in a Policy Commission report, The Sustainable Plastics Policy Commission: Key findings for the UK government, launched at the…

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