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Costa Coffee announces commitment to recycle half a billion takeaway cups a year

Stuart Mitchell

Costa Coffee has today announced it will become the first ever coffee chain in the UK to commit to recycling the same volume of cups it puts onto the market in a bid to tackle the challenge of coffee cup recycling and to stop them ending up in landfill. The UK’s favourite coffee shop will recycle up to 500 million coffee cups a year by 2020, the equivalent of its entire yearly sales of takeaway cups and a fifth of the 2.5 billion takeaway coffee cups consumed as a nation…

Hey Girls Crowned Virgin StartUp’s Scottish StartUpBusiness of the Year 2018

Stuart Mitchell

This is a story we’re really happy to report. We covered the launch of Hey Girls earlier this year. So congratulations to all at Hey Girls from all of us here at Ethical Marketing News. Having fought off competition from over a hundred entrants, Hey Girls, a ‘Buy One Give One’ sanitary social enterprise tackling period poverty in the UK, is celebrating after being crowned Virgin StartUps Scottish Business of the Year 2018. Over the past three months, Virgin Startup10: Scotland has been searching for Scotland’s best startup businesses and…

2018 Women of Tomorrow shortlist revealed

Stuart Mitchell

Thirty-three extraordinary women working in the communications industries have been shortlisted for the Women of Tomorrow Awards 2018, run by the IPA and Campaign. Selected from almost 200 entries, this year’s shortlist work across a variety of industry disciplines including creative, innovation, media planning, new business and strategy. As well as being passionate champions of furthering female talent within the industry, a number of the women shortlisted are also involved in commercial and charity enterprises outside of their working life. The winners will be chosen by a panel of 12…

FCB Canada launches “Anything But Sorry” for the Canadian Down Syndrome Society

Stuart Mitchell

When a baby is born parents are usually showered with oohs, aahs and congratulations. The last thing most people would say to a new parent is “sorry.” Yet this is exactly what many parents with a newborn with Down syndrome hear from friends, family and even their doctors. Already heartbroken, ‘sorry’ offers more heartbreak.  So what should well-wishers say? Literally, the only bad word is the ‘S’ word. This is the point the Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) is making in its new campaign, “Anything But Sorry.” Launching to coincide…

Kingston Smith announces 2017 Creative Vision Award charity film winners

Stuart Mitchell

Kingston Smith and Bournemouth University are pleased to announce the winning charity films of this year’s Creative Vision Award: Team Humble Bumbles’ film for DEBRA, the national charity supporting people directly affected by, and working with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) – a potentially fatal skin condition that causes pain due to unstoppable internal and external blistering. Team TourDeFrames’s film for Re~Cycle, the charity which collects bicycles from across the UK and ships them to partner organisations in Africa to provide rural people with an affordable and sustainable means of transport. Innovative…