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The CIRCLE Alliance: scaling packaging circularity to reduce plastic waste

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever has joined USAID and EY to launch the CIRCLE Alliance, a new public–private initiative aimed at tackling plastic pollution. Read how such collaborations are crucial in responding to the urgent need for collective action. The CIRCLE Alliance is a new $21 million public–private collaboration to scale solutions that reduce plastic use and tackle plastic waste Founded by Unilever, USAID and EY, the CIRCLE Alliance will support entrepreneurs and small businesses across the plastics value chain Its goal is to support women’s economic empowerment, improve livelihoods and protect the environment…

Open call for new members of GRI governance bodies

Stuart Mitchell

A global recruitment call is underway to appoint new members to three GRI governance bodies that underpin the continued success of GRI – the provider of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting standards.  With a total of eight vacancies, GRI is looking for experienced professionals from diverse backgrounds to apply to join the following governance bodies, from 1 January 2025:  Supervisory Board: the body responsible for overseeing GRI’s long-term priorities and strategy. Candidates to fill one vacancy are being sought, with applicants particularly encouraged from the ASEAN and Latin…

UK falls out of top 20 most generous countries in the world

Stuart Mitchell

The UK is no longer one of the most generous countries in the world, according to the Charities Aid Foundation’s World Giving Index 2024. It now places 22nd in the global index, its joint lowest ranking, having fallen to the same level it was in 2020 when charitable activity was severely limited by the Covid 19 pandemic. The CAF World Giving Index is one of the biggest surveys on giving ever produced, with this year’s research covering 142 countries and interviewing millions of people around the world since 2009. This…

New tool helps small businesses create privacy notices

Stuart Mitchell

The ICO have launched a new, quick and easy-to-use tool to help small organisations and sole traders create a bespoke privacy notice and protect people’s information rights. Under data protection law, every organisation that holds people’s information needs to explain why it holds it and what it does with it. This is so their customers, suppliers, staff and volunteers know what will happen to their personal information. Organisations can provide this information through a privacy notice, which is displayed on its website or included in other communications, to ensure they’re…

Patagonia giving all US employees paid time off to vote early and volunteer in 2024 election

Stuart Mitchell

Patagonia has been asking its community to vote the planet since the 1970s, and it has given employees Election Day off in the United States since 2016.  This year, the outdoor apparel company with more than 2,000 employees in the U.S. will close its stores, warehouse and offices on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, which is national Vote Early Day. Employees will receive a paid day off and have the entire day to vote early and volunteer. The company is calling it Vote Early and Volunteer Day.  Democracy experts and advocates agree that…