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With the increase in PPE usage around the world, latex gloves and single-use masks are now the latest form of plastic littering. So we investigate if plastic-free or plant-based PPE is the solution to plastic pollution, and what questions you should ask when you see a new product on the market.
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by Livvy Drake When you think about making an event sustainable, does your mind start to whizz: waste, travel, water, plastic - where do you even begin? What do you prioritise? What sustainable materials do you choose when they cost so much more?
This can be pretty overhelming when you also have to get your event live, sell tickets and keep your clients happy. Read on for three tips for reducing sustainable event overwhelm. Would you like to donate money to COVID-19 charities but watching the pennies? Or grow trees while concentrating better? Here are 3 great apps, Livvy recommends for lockdown working that support charities, tree planting and your mental health.
Is flight shame a conversation that is happening in your workplace, or something you are experiencing but with your current holiday allowance you aren't sure how to address this without advocating "staycations" this year, which you know won't appeal to everyone? Read on for a solution that has benefits for both employee and employer and some reality checks on overland travel objections, all without the need to guilt-trip anyone.
Wondering how to encourage people to recycle better at work or to change people’s habits for using single-use takeaway packaging every lunchtime? Here is a quick insight into some behaviour change principles, summed up in a simple acronym. EAST that you can use for workplace behaviour change.
So before you send another angry email about the recycling contamination or invest in thousands of reusable coffee cups, read this.
Planning a work party and wondering what to drink? Or perhaps climate breakdown has got too much and you need something to take the edge off it! If you feel like having a drink without having an ethical shopping crisis then check out these brands who have developed plastic-free packaging and reducing the environmental impacts of their products.
Read to the bottom for our tips on choosing the office party booze. Cheers!
Embarking on a sustainability journey can be a steep learning curve in industry lingo, concepts and processes that may be unfamiliar to you. Plus there can be some uncomfortable lessons in navigating greenwash.
This is exactly why we set up the Sustainable Sidekicks online learning platform to make adopting environmental business processes and practices accessible and easy.
If you work in procurement and your business is looking to reduce plastics, it may fall on you to take action. So here are some tips on tackling plastics in the supply chain.
What’s in your bin? In order to understand what your biggest waste issues are, the first thing to do is a waste audit. This will let you know the volumes of items and what is in the wrong place e.g. coffee cups in the paper recycling.
What can other businesses learn from the zero waste shop model? We take a look at Zero Green in Bristol for some ideas.
For your zero waste week, why not have some fun in the office and set some challenges to reduce waste.
A week long challenge encourages people try things out. At the end of the week you can look at what people are happy to keep working on or developing.
If you are wondering if compostable or bio plastics are the right thing for your business, or if you should accept them at the lunchtime takeaway counter then read on!
Are you the person that is forever re-sorting the recycling at work and pulling coffee cups out of the paper stream? It can be easy to blame people for not doing the recycling ‘properly’ in the office but maybe there are some limitations with the set-up. Check out these tips:
It seems to be in the news all the time - plastic in the oceans, in the food chain and now falling in the snow in the arctic. As this becomes a topic on everyone's lips here are some facts that you might not know about plastic. You can share these around the office while you fill up in your water bottle or reusable glass!
In the build-up to Bristol's campaign to achieve Gold status as a Sustainable Food City, we have been working with Bristol Food Network to produce a guide on how food businesses can reduce their food waste. Find out more about the project's ambitions, how we worked with food businesses to gather data on their food waste as well as getting some top food waste tips.
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