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Material Focus allocates additional £750,000 to the Electricals Recycling Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Material Focus is reopening its Electricals Recycling Fund today, offering £750,000 of funding to support projects that make it easier for more people to reuse and recycle old and unwanted small household electricals. This follows previous rounds of funding that provided £1.8 million to fund over 40 UK projects, which will make it easier for over 10 million people to repair, donate or recycle their unwanted electricals. Material Focus’s research indicates that while 80% of consumers believe in recycling, many still discard electricals rather than recycling or reusing them. With…

OAAA Reveals Winners Of 82nd Annual OBIE Awards, Dunkin’ Named As Newest Obie Hall Of Fame Inductee

Stuart Mitchell

The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), the leading trade group representing the entire out of home (OOH) advertising industry, today announced the winners of the 82nd annual OBIE Awards. For the past eight decades, the prestigious OBIE Awards have been synonymous with creative excellence, shining a light on the most creative and innovative work across the out of home space and signaling the future for the industry. The OBIE Awards were co-hosted by OAAA’s EVP of Strategy & Growth Jeff Jan and Digital Prophet & Industry Luminary…

Ceres launches new tool for small to medium-sized companies to improve their sustainability performance

Stuart Mitchell

Ceres launched a new sustainability assessment tool designed to help small to medium-sized companies assess and improve their sustainability performance.   Developed by Ceres in-house experts, the Ceres Roadmap 360º equips businesses with user-friendly, self-guided learning modules covering a range of topics – from clean energy to risk management to community engagement – that are most important to their sustainability journey. The tool produces customized reports that include a scorecard, best practice recommendations, and useful resources to help companies integrate sustainability across their operations.  Inspired by the foundation laid by the…

Triodos Bank calls for urgent shift to restorative and circular economy

Stuart Mitchell

Triodos Bank published its vision paper on the resource transition, in which it calls for more ambition to shift the economy from wasteful and linear, to restorative and circular. The current ecological crises require not only better financing, new risk and business models, but a system change. One in which companies and individuals see the value in the waste currently being discarded in landfills, and understand the ecological and social damages this causes. Triodos Bank argues that this change in norms will shift economies away from the ‘take, make, dispose’…

Education Above All Foundation and UNHCR partner to enrol more out-of-school, refugee children

Stuart Mitchell

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and global development organization Education Above All (EAA) Foundation have signed a new, five-year agreement aimed at addressing the global challenge of out-of-school children (OOSC), including refugees, internally displaced people and host community children. The new agreement builds on the success of enrolling more than 1.6 million OOSC in 14 countries globally since 2012. The strategic partnership agreement signed in Doha by UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, and EAA Foundation CEO, Fahad Al Sulaiti, will focus on supporting, promoting, and protecting the right…