Category: News

World-class complaining: Cross-border ads and the ASA’s remit

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Tread carefully: World-class complaining: Cross-border ads and the ASA’s remit, 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. In the good old days, you’d see a poster at the side of the road, or receive a leaflet through the letterbox, safe in the knowledge that if you had to complain about that ad, for whatever reason, it would be in the ASA’s remit. Then, the internet…

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New Analysis Reveals £22.5bn Economic Opportunity if UK Accelerates Heat Decarbonisation

Stuart Mitchell

The Heat Pump Association UK (HPA UK) has today published new analysis showing that the transition to low carbon residential heating represents a significant economic, employment and energy security opportunity. The findings come as the UK Government urgently seeks opportunities to boost economic growth, with the UK economy only growing by around 1.5% in 2025. The report, From Carbon to Competitiveness: The UK Opportunity Associated with Decarbonising Residential Heating, models the impact of accelerating the deployment of decarbonised heating in line with the ambition set out in the Government’s Carbon…

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MYGroup and Selfridges enable fragrance recycling at scale with launch of Reselfridges beauty waste take-back scheme

Stuart Mitchell

MYGroup has partnered with Selfridges to launch a new nationwide beauty and cosmetics recycling scheme, enabling customers to return beauty empties, including hard-to-recycle fragrance bottles. Reselfridges Recycle is now available at all Selfridges Beauty Halls across Birmingham, Manchester and London’s Oxford Street, which attracts over 20 million visitors each year alone. Customers are incentivised through collecting a Selfridges Unlocked Key for every five items recycled as part of the retailer’s membership programme. Reselfridges Recycle is making it easy to recycle fragrance bottles, which are often excluded from both kerbside recycling…

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Launching the Green Industrial Grids Association to accelerate grid modernisation across Europe

Stuart Mitchell

A leading group of Europe’s energy users and grid technology innovators today launched the Green Industrial Grids Association (GIGA). The association has been created to support a fundamental transformation of Europe’s power system by accelerating the development of modern and digital electricity grids. GIGA fills a gap by bringing together companies with shared electricity needs to provide practical, user-driven insights on grid access, planning and system modernisation, perspectives currently missing from Europe’s energy discussions. GIGA’s members include Amazon, Electra, Fastned, Google, Hitachi Energy, Linde, Meta, Metlen, Milence, Microsoft and Siemens…

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National Wealth Fund to drive more than £100 billion into the UK economy

Stuart Mitchell

The National Wealth Fund has today set out its ambition to drive more than £100 billion of investment into the companies, infrastructure and supply chains that will unlock growth, creating a more prosperous, cleaner, greener and resilient future for the UK. In its new strategic plan, published today, the Fund sets out how its investments will create and support more than 200,000 jobs, accelerate the pathway to clean energy by saving 500 million tonnes of CO2e GHG emissions by 2050iii, and ultimately deliver a positive return for the taxpayer.  …

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