Tag: Single-Use Plastic

Bath Spa University introduces returnable coffee cup scheme to tackle single-use plastic

Stuart Mitchell

Bath Spa University is today announcing the launch of a new returnable cup scheme in five outlets across three of their campuses in an effort to help tackle the 55,000 single-use coffee cups currently served up to students and staff. The University is teaming up with environmental behaviour change specialists, City to Sea, who ran a successful city-wide returnable cup scheme across the whole of Bristol earlier this year. The “Refill Return Cup” will operate through the award-winning Refill app meaning that coffee drinkers won’t need to leave any deposit at…

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edie launches new business blueprint report on single-use plastics and the circular economy

Stuart Mitchell

edie readers can access a new in-depth report outlining how businesses can make their operations, value chains and products and services more circular in a bid to cut back on single-use plastics and deliver a zero-waste world. The ebb and flow of the global, concerted effort to eliminate unnecessary single-use plastics by embracing the circular economy has been an irresistible movement that has seen nations, cities, regions and businesses all pledging to play their part in creating a zero waste future. In a world where net-zero is a non-optional necessity…

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World Refill Day: Mayor of London taps into London’s ambition to ditch its 1 billion single-use plastic water bottle usage

Stuart Mitchell

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is ramping up his campaign with environmental charity and behaviour change experts, City to Sea, to tap into Londoners’ desire to quit their single-use plastic bottle use. Exclusive new research released by City to Sea for World Refill Day (16th June) shows both the level of consumption of single-use plastic water bottles in the capital, but also the desire of millions of Londoners to ditch single-use plastics. The survey found that Londoners reported purchasing over 1 billion single-use plastic water bottles a year; with 3 in…

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Public tells government to ban polluting single-use plastics now

Stuart Mitchell

More than 100,000 people have called on the government to ban the most polluting single-use plastic items, such as plastic cutlery, plates and polystyrene food packaging. The call comes as public pressure builds on Environment Secretary George Eustice to be quicker and more ambitious in tackling plastic pollution once and for all. A petition with 117,000 signatures was handed into Downing Street today, ahead of the government closing its consultation on banning common single-use items this Saturday. The campaigners carried eye-catching placards and giant cutlery props with the wording ‘For…

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Pernod Ricard accelerates the end of single-use plastic point-of-sale (POS) materials by 2021

Stuart Mitchell

Pernod Ricard is proud to announce that it will end the use of single-use plastic point-of-sale (POS) items1 by 2021. Alongside other strong commitments* to be achieved this decade, this plastic ban is one of the milestones of the Group’s “2030 Sustainability & Responsibility roadmap – Good Times from a Good Place,” part of its strategic plan Transform & Accelerate. The ban, originally planned for 2025, will be achieved four years ahead of the initial target.  In order to drive innovation and provide guidance throughout the Group, Pernod Ricard has shared Global…

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