Marketplace
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Domino Publishes Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report
Corporate Reports
Domino Printing Sciences (Domino) has published its CSR Report 2025, providing customers with a clearer understanding of the company’s approach to sustainability and the progress it has made in key areas related to the environment, people, and society.
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SCOPE from Ovarro supports Welsh Water response to severe storm
Water
Upgraded telemetry technology helped Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water manage an unprecedented volume of alarms during a major weather event, writes Julian Booth, SCADA service delivery manager, Ovarro.
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First location in Nottinghamshire to install solar & wind powered defibrillator
Health & safety
Another rural Parish Council – East Markham – has taken the valiant step of ensuring residents in all parts of the village are safeguarded against sudden cardiac arrest. East Markham is the first location in Nottinghamshire to install a solar and wind powered defibrillator cabinet.
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The Fentex Trapper Range
Spill Control & Clean Up
British-Made Innovation Powered by Recycled Materials
As sustainability becomes a defining priority for British industry, choosing products that are both high performing and responsibly made has never mattered more. At Fentex, environmental responsibility and British manufacturing go hand in hand. As the largest Spill Control manufacturer in Britain, Fentex delivers an unrivalled product range that is manufactured and packaged in the UK, supporting local industry while reducing environmental impact.
Food
Shoppers might be shocked to learn they're contributing to destroying the Amazon rainforests! This is after UK supermarkets have been ranked on their efforts to remove deforestation and land conversion from their supply chains for soy – a key commodity imported to feed British livestock, poultry and salmon.
A Norfolk agricultural enterprise, which employs regenerative techniques on its Ribena blackcurrant farm, is involved in a research project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and boost soil microbiology from the growing of its soft fruit.
Offshore shellfish and seaweed farming have the highest growth forecast in the EU. However, the ropes used in their cultivation are made from conventional fossil-based plastics, which can potentially contribute to the generation of plastic waste and marine litter and have a negative impact on the marine environment if not properly managed.
While steps to manage fishing in Marine Protected Areas are welcome, Greenpeace campaigners say the consultation process, launched today (17 January) is too sluggish and cumbersome to match the urgency of the oceans crisis. The campaign organisation say the government's approach to reef protection doesn't go far enough, as they're not proposing site-wide bans and therefore don't address the damage caused to the whole ecosystem by other forms of industrial fishing.
Northamptonshire-based Weetabix Food Company is setting out a plan to produce its first box of zero carbon Weetabix Original. It aims to achieve this by drawing on the results of carbon footprint studies undertaken with its farmers in England's East Midlands, to explore the carbon emissions associated with producing their wheat.
A UK-based food-tech business, Clean Food Group, has announced that it is one step closer to producing a viable yeast-based alternative to palm oil. Their 'lab grown' cellular-based alternative could help reduce the detrimental environmental impact of a range of palm-based ingredients that can be found in nearly 50% of all packaged products found on our supermarket shelves.
Dorset is pressing forward with its ambition to become the World's First Sustainable Palm Oil County. Thirty six businesses and organisations across the South West England county have committed to only using sustainable palm oil via the Dorset Sustainable Palm Oil Community (DSPOC), an initiative announced by Efeca, a specialist on responsible sourcing of agricultural commodities. The movement is quickly gaining momentum with Dr Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, recently announced as an ambassador for the Dorset Sustainable Palm Oil Community.
With UK households wasting on average the equivalent of eight meals a week (87,000 tonnes a week throughout the UK) TV presenter Gregg Wallace has joined Food Waste Action Week to help households get on top of food waste and spread the message Wasting Food Feeds Climate Change.
New evidence from waste reduction charity WRAP shows that selling fresh produce loose, and removing date labels could prevent 14 million shopping baskets worth of food from going to waste and 1,100 rubbish trucks of avoidable plastic simply by allowing people to buy what they need.
Philip Simpson, commercial director at ReFood, highlights the escalating issue of food waste and discusses why government funding is more important than ever before.
