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Farewell to plastic Peppa? Waitrose bans children's magazines with 'excessive' plastic toy giveaways

Business Green

Supermarket says it is time to tackle 'unnecessary plastic' that routinely accompanies children's magazines. Skye, from Gwynedd, launched her petition after becoming fed up with being sent "cheap plastic rubbish" with her favourite magazine. The carbon footprint is big and you are putting it straight in the bin to pollute the planet.".

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Sustainable Office Gifts: A Guide For Green Holiday Shopping

Green Business Bureau

If you’re wondering what to get your favorite coworkers while keeping your carbon footprint low, then here’s a must-have guide on sustainable office gifts! You can use patterned wrapping paper and old cereal boxes to create a nifty file/magazine holder or a desk organizer. Sustainable fitness gear is growing in popularity.

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Lack of funding top barrier to sustainability action for 38% of UK businesses

Envirotec Magazine

The annual Sustainability Report produced by enterprise software firm SAP appears to reveal that 8 in 10 (83%) UK leaders will maintain or increase their investment in sustainability action by 2026. While almost one-in-three (28%) have difficulty proving return on investment, making long-term progress harder to prove and sustain.

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Leading ‘Sustainable’ Investment Funds Backing Fossil Fuels, Research Finds

DeSmogBlog

Major investment funds available to UK consumers are marketing themselves as “sustainable” and “ethical” while financing fossil fuel companies, research has found. The lack of regulation makes for a Wild West of sustainable fund management”.

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Startups to watch: Innovate UK announces sustainability accelerator programme

Envirotec Magazine

Innovate UK KTN has chosen 13 startups to participate in its sustainability accelerator programme. Over the next ten weeks, 13 companies selected from the Sustainable Innovation Fund will work with Innovate UK KTN and their partners growth studio and the ecosystems to further develop propositions and prepare to raise external capital.

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‘Future of Workplace Sustainability Report’ explores how sustainability, climate change and COVID-19 are shaping the future of the workplace

Envirotec Magazine

A new report appears to reveal how and why businesses can and should become more sustainable – and fast. “ The Future of Workplace Sustainability Report ” explores how sustainability, climate change and COVID-19 are shaping the future of the workplace.

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Conference to address the environmental impact of digitalisation

Envirotec Magazine

Expert Panel for Compute and Climate, and Chair of the Technical Working Group for Ethics in the Government National Digital Twin Programme and is an Independent Scientific Advisor at the Alan Turing Institute for the BridgeAI programme. He is a Member of the OECD.AI Compute and the Environment Expert Group.

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