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A Scottish potato business has cut almost 27 tonnes of plastic from its packaging in a year. Scotty Brand said it introduced a raft of plastic-saving measures across its range to help protect the environment in September 2019 which included thinner, recyclable plastic on its 2kg potato bags, Baby Potato bags and Chippy Chip packs and removing trays inside its Baking Potato packs. In total, these steps have seen Scotty Brand save 26,890kg of plastic. The plastic savings are part of a wider initiative to protect the environment with parent company Albert Bartlett also introducing reduced thickness, recyclable bags in a move which has seen a saving of 92 tonnes of plastic across the business. ....
Picnooga Launches Searchable Collections Website Sunday, December 20, 2020 Picnooga, the Chattanooga Historical Society, launches a searchable historical collections website making available over 350 postcards and portraitures from Chattanooga’s past. Included is a small fraction of their collections donated and acquired over the past six years. In 2021, Picnooga hopes to have the majority of its archive accessible online. EPB sponsored the website. “This soft launch is just the beginning of something much bigger,” said David Moon, president of the Historical Society. “We’ll be adding 120 items from our Paper Ephemera collection over the next few weeks and will be updating the resource often.” ....
Share Add to Bookmarks WRAP and the retail industry have declared in favour of bringing textiles under an extended producer responsibility (EPR) regime. Representatives of both told a parliamentary inquiry this week that textiles should be next in line for EPR after its intended extension to packaging. Questioned at an Environmental Audit Committee meeting by Labour MP Feryal Clark, WRAP’s head of business collaboration David Moon said that, despite progress on reducing the carbon footprint of textiles, more clothes were being bought and discarded. This meant “the carbon footprint is going in the wrong direction and there is also a high volume of clothing going to waste, so I think it is a candidate for the application of EPR”. ....