Business & Industry
Business Travel & Responsible Business 2025
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Why loose produce could be key to reducing food waste in UK homes
Cut food waste and plastic pollution — an association urges a packaging ban on 21 fruits and vegetables, revealing the environmental and financial benefits of buying loose produce. If it is naked fruit and single veggies you want in the supermarket, the choice can be restrictive. So much fresh produce comes pre-packaged — only around...
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Closing the fashion loop, stitch by stitch through the circular economy
Today’s fashion industry is not only environmentally unsustainable. It’s economically fragile. Every discarded garment is value that’s lost. In a circular economy, clothes are used more, made to be made again, and made from safe and recycled or renewable inputs. This requires products and materials to be designed differently, but it also requires businesses to...
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Is the travel industry broken?
Every spring, the UK and Ireland business travel community gathers at the ITM Conference, this year held at Celtic Manor, with the theme ‘Inspire.’ Various key talking points were explored and debated, including two critical questions that appear to be on the minds of industry leaders. Firstly, is our industry broken? Second, are our travel...
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Ending plastic pollution: a win for business, nature and our health
Dead albatross chicks with plastic in their guts. A whale full of fishing gear. Beaches and rivers are covered in plastic waste. Microplastics are detected everywhere, from human placentas to the Himalayas. People are clearly appalled by what they see and what they now know. Surveys have consistently revealed strong support for reducing plastic production...
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Responsible business: why doing good means doing well
A truly responsible business stays ahead of the curve on the things that matter. Why should businesses demonstrate their commitment to responsibility? The business landscape is evolving, with a growing number of employers recognising the commercial imperative of building more responsible organisations, continuously looking for ways to make their organisations more responsible. From prioritising employee...
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UK steel to get cleaner and fairer under new strategy
The nation’s Steel Strategy aims to retain and build the sector while aligning with decarbonisation goals, ensuring that environmental progress does not equate to industrial decline or job losses. Central to the Steel Strategy is hydrogen, which could replace internationally reliant fossil fuels in the blast furnaces and secure our domestic production capabilities of virgin...
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Why valuing your workforce must be part of sustainability
Despite broader ESG awareness, businesses often equate sustainability solely with the environment, sidelining social factors that are equally vital to responsible corporate behaviour. Our impact on the planet is so much more measurable, and it enables businesses to work with the plethora of specialist organisations out there to calculate benchmarks, set targets and measure improvements....
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ESG under fire: why we need to empower action, not audits
With increasing global uncertainty, now is the time to embed sustainability into business strategy — for resilience, growth and real-world results. As the world faces economic uncertainty, political backtracking and growing scepticism around sustainability commitments, the once-celebrated era of environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting is being questioned. In some quarters, it’s being pronounced dead...
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A business guide to a true circular economy transition
A circular economy — where products and materials are kept in circulation — is the foundation of sustainable business, but how can organisations embed circularity into their supply chains? To achieve a truly circular economy, businesses must transition from linear ‘take, make, dispose’ models to circular supply chains, but there is a gap between understanding...
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Shaping a nature-positive food future with Yara
The pressure is mounting on everyone across the chain, from growers to global brands, to reduce their environmental footprint. What if the food on your plate could help heal the planet? In a world where the food supply chain is responsible for around 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, sustainability is no longer a ‘nice...