Category: News

  • Innovative tech supports sustainable renting at Quintain Living

    Innovative tech supports sustainable renting at Quintain Living

    Saving on utilities consumption is more important than ever, with individuals and businesses all needing to play their part. At Quintain Living – the award-winning management company overseeing the rental of more than 3,250 apartments in Wembley Park – this has been a priority for some time now. In fact, a Project Manager for the company has…

  • Greater Manchester launches Your Home Better to help residents with energy crisis

    Greater Manchester launches Your Home Better to help residents with energy crisis

    Your Home Better is a new scheme for homeowners in Greater Manchester to enable them to futureproof their homes to combat increasing energy costs as well as reducing carbon emissions. The retrofit scheme brings together a consortium of experts on behalf of Greater Manchester Combined Authority and is aimed at homeowners in the region. Your…

  • GUNNA Drinks Launch Petition for the UK Government to ban plastic bottles

    GUNNA Drinks Launch Petition for the UK Government to ban plastic bottles

    Award winning craft lemonade brand, GUNNA Drinks, have launched a petition to lobby the UK Government to ban the use of single use plastics in the soft drink industry. GUNNA want the Government to take action to cut down plastic pollution by banning single-use plastic bottles in the manufacture of soft drinks. With alternatives, such…

  • Packaging Industry Gets Boost in Race To Net Zero

    Packaging Industry Gets Boost in Race To Net Zero

    LONDON, UK – October 25th, 2022 – Leading packaging innovation consultancy, ThePackHub, has partnered with Emitwise, the carbon management experts, to enable its members to accurately measure, report and reduce carbon emissions across their packaging supply chains.  ThePackHub reports that its members, including Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, Mars Wrigley and Kellogg’s, are committed to making supply chain decarbonisation…

  • BEDDING EXPERT SAYS “IT’S OK TO NOT WASH YOUR BED SHEETS EVERY WEEK”

    BEDDING EXPERT SAYS “IT’S OK TO NOT WASH YOUR BED SHEETS EVERY WEEK”

    How often we wash our bed sheets is a contentious topic for many, and so the experts at luxury bed linen retailer Secret Linen Store have just launched a new ‘Clean Sheets’ Calculator to help put the debate to rest. Not one size fits all The generally accepted advice, wherever you live in the world, is to…

  • Wetsuit Outlet launches closed-loop wetsuit recycling programme

    Wetsuit Outlet launches closed-loop wetsuit recycling programme

    First ecommerce watersports retailer in Europe to offer service LONDON, OCTOBER 10, 2022 — Wetsuit Outlet, Europe’s leading watersports specialist, today announced the launch of a closed-loop recycling programme for wetsuits, making it the first ecommerce watersports retailer in Europe to do so. Wetsuit Outlet has partnered with Circular Flow, a leader in neoprene recycling and manufacturing…

  • Working with ELeather: Bag Commissions & Interview with Designer Nicola Fox

    Working with ELeather: Bag Commissions & Interview with Designer Nicola Fox

    Did you know that over 75% of traditional leather is unused and ends up in landfill? That’s right, only 25% is actually utilised, and given all the water, land and carbon needed in the process that’s a huge environmental impact for such a small amount of end product. ELeather are helping to tackle this problem by…

  • What does it take to achieve an ‘A’ energy certificate rating?

    What does it take to achieve an ‘A’ energy certificate rating?

    Developers have a huge opportunity to support the sustainable growth of the residential property sector, creating homes with eco-friendly features through thoughtful design and construction processes. But what does it take to achieve an ‘A’ energy certificate rating? Marc Pritchard, Sales and Marketing Director at Taylor Wimpey España, explains that it’s about thinking holistically: “Creating…

  • Plantable Christmas Gifts!

    Plantable Christmas Gifts!

    A La KArt Creations offers eco-friendly, plantable Christmas gifts for you and your loved ones, all in mind to support our bee population. Browse within the range of cards, seed bombs, gift tags, and calendars. Christmas has never been more green! My Mission – by La Kart Creations. Hi I’m Kitti – Founder of A…

  • Its about time we cottoned onto this…

    Its about time we cottoned onto this…

    Cotton is a cash crop and makes up 33% of all textiles produced. Did you know 300 million people in the world depend on cotton for at least part of their income? Yet this crop is unsustainable. ”Cotton is the most widespread profitable nonfood crop in the world, and its production employs almost 7% of…