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B Corp Month 2021 Interview - Jamie Crummie from Too Good To Go

B Corp Month 2021 Interview – Jamie Crummie from Too Good To Go

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B Corp Month 2021 Interview - Jamie Crummie from Too Good To Go
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Hello and welcome to our special series of Green Elephant interviews during March 2021, supporting the annual B Corps month. B Corporations, or B Corps for short, are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose

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B Corp Month 2021 Interview - Ros Heathcote from Borough Broth Company

B Corp Month 2021 Interview – Ros Heathcote from Borough Broth Company

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B Corp Month 2021 Interview - Ros Heathcote from Borough Broth Company
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Hello and welcome to our special series of Green Elephant interviews during March 2021, supporting the annual B Corps month. B Corporations, or B Corps for short, are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose

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Period product waste

Period product waste

Sadly, as discussed on the Green Elephant Show today with @DignityNZ there are many girls and women in the world who do not have access to period products. This can also be a serious waste issue. Do you think on average women throw away 800- items? Or is it more?

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Consumer Goods Use

Consumer goods use

How long do you think the things we buy get used for? How many of those things are still in use after 6 months? Just 5% or did we make that up.

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Green Elephant Show No 25 covering the latest sustainability news

Sustainability News 2nd December

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Sustainability News 2nd December
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The latest sustainability news, fun, facts and reviews from the Green Elephant for 2nd December 2020. Top stories: 01:05 – US greenhouse gas emissions see historic plummet 01:05 – Greenhouse gases hit record levels despite COVID-19 lockdowns 22:05 – China gets tough on firms over single-use plastics 06:10 Leave a

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Green Elephant Show No 17 covering the latest sustainability news

Sustainability News 30th September

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Sustainability News 30th September
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The latest sustainability news, fun, facts and reviews from the Green Elephant for 30th September 2020. Top stories: 01:05 – World leaders commit to Earth’s recovery 04:30 – Key Takeaways From Climate Week 2020 34:23 – Tesco sets 300% sales target for plant-based alternatives to meat 37:05 – Flooding leaves

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Supermarket sustainability heroes or villains

004 Supermarket sustainability, Heroes or villains?

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004 Supermarket sustainability, Heroes or villains?
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Overview The last 50 years have seen a fundamental shift in the way we all shop for groceries. We used to go to the bakers, the butchers, the grocers, the chemists and the newsagents but instead we now go to Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Sainbury’s Walmart, Carrefour and Yonghui! In this

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Million Plastic Bottles

A million plastic bottles are bought every single minute

A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021 Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2021, far outstripping recycling efforts and jeopardising oceans, coastlines and other environments Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/28/a-million-a-minute-worlds-plastic-bottle-binge-as-dangerous-as-climate-change

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