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Hey Girls and My Period work together to supply free period products in Northern Ireland

Stuart Mitchell

Making history! New legislation to provide free period products to anyone who needs them came into operation in Northern Ireland in the summer of 2024. This makes it just the second country in the whole world to make free period products publicly available, Scotland being the first. The period products are being supplied by Hey Girls, with the outreach supported by its charitable arm My Period. It means the company’s period products will be available in every public library, including mobile libraries, across Northern Ireland with Libraries NI. Find period…

Berry Achieves Four-Fold Success at Environmental Packaging Awards

Stuart Mitchell

Global packaging leader, Berry Global Group, Inc. has received four awards at the 2024 Environmental Packaging Awards, including a Gold Award for Sustainable Innovation of the Year, two Silver Awards in the Ambient Food and Chilled Food categories, and a Bronze Award for Alcoholic Drinks. Recognising outstanding achievements in sustainable packaging, these awards represent Berry’s significant contributions to reducing environmental impact. “Supporting our customers’ sustainability goals is central to everything we do at Berry,” said Jean-Marc Galvez, President of Berry Global’s Consumer Packaging International division. “Our achievements in the Environmental…

Berry Helps Aquafigure Deliver Reusable ‘Bottle for Life’

Stuart Mitchell

Eye-catching bottle supports hundreds of uses and showcases interchangeable, 3D artwork Global packaging leader, Berry Global Group, Inc., partnered with Norwegian brand, Aquafigure, to deliver a new line of reusable water bottles with a unique design for interchangeable, 3D bottle cards to encourage young people to drink more water. Intended to provide a ‘bottle for life,’ the 330-millilitre container is made from BPA-free Tritan™, a widely recyclable, food-approved co-polyester that can endure hundreds of dishwasher cycles. The cap is manufactured from widely recyclable, mono-material Polypropylene (PP). The bespoke bottle design…

The First European-Based Certified Carbon Credits Issued for Afforestation Projects: Aims for 10M Tone Annual Offsetting

Stuart Mitchell

hold.earth, a carbon impact hub that connects projects producing carbon credits with organizations looking to offset their CO2 emissions, has received certification for the first European-based carbon credits from the Open Forest Protocol (OFP), known for its stringent standards. They received carbon credit certification for Afforestation, Reforestation & Revegetation (ARR) projects, which is extremely rare overall and almost non-existent in Europe. This is great news for businesses looking to meet the high demand for certified EU-based offsets that can also help address the ongoing problem of corporate greenwashing.  Co-founder and…

Hungry and hairy Hungarian hogs help save UK’s most endangered butterfly

Stuart Mitchell

Conservationists racing to save the UK’s most endangered butterfly have recruited the help of some unique volunteers: hairy Hungarian hogs. Butterfly Conservation is working with the National Trust using curly-haired Mangalitsa pigs at one of the charity’s sites on Exmoor to create perfect habitat for the High Brown Fritillary. Since 1978, this pretty orange insect with black chequered wings has declined by 65% in population and 87% in distribution across the UK. It is now found in just three locations in England, one of which is the sun-bathed Heddon Valley…