sustainable procurement News
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Satellite to develop branding on LCE Sustainable Procurement brief
LONDON - 25 January 2007 Satellite, the UK's leading integrated ethical agency are appointed as design consultants for the London Centre of Excellence Sustainable Procurement Project being led by the London Borough of Camden. Developing sustainable procurement is an important national policy priority. The 2005 UK Sustainable Development Strategy announced the UK's goal of becoming 'a leader ...
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Crowberry Consulting shortlisted for North West Business Environment Awards
Crowberry Consulting - an environment, ethics and corporate responsiblity management consultancy based in the North West of England has been shorlisted for the North West Business Environment Awards 2007 - category Sustainable Procurement. The awards will be annouced on 16th May in Manchester in association with the Mersey Basin Campaign and the North West Regional Development ...
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Apollo Tyres Receives ISO 20400 Certification for Sustainable Procurement
Apollo Tyres have announced that their raw material procurement process has been successfully validated by a third party recently for the ISO 20400:2017 Sustainable Procurement standard. Apollo Tyres is the first company in the automotive sector in India to achieve ISO 20400 certification.Commenting on the achievement, Sunam Sarkar, President and Chief Business Officer, Apollo Tyres said: ...
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Flottweg Receives Gold Seal by EcoVadis
EcoVadis, which carries out sustainability ratings for companies based on global standards, has awarded the machine manufacturer Flottweg a Gold medal. This was the separation technology specialist’s first time being recognized by EcoVadis, thereby putting it in the top one percent of the mechanical engineering industry. Flottweg’s sustainability efforts in recent years were awarded ...
By Flottweg SE
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Crowberry Consulting Ltd named North West Business Environment Award Winner 2008
Sustainable Events Ltd a sister company to Crowberry Consulting Ltd was recently recognised at the North West Business and Environment Awards in the category of sustainable procurement. The online tool for event planners to plan and design events with sustainability factors built in was a runner up at the awards. The online tool is the only UK tool that can help event managers to build events ...
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National audit office: Government must practise sustainable procurement
Government departments need to ensure that their procurement decisions minimise waste levels and increase recycling rates, according to a new report. The National Audit Office report entitled Addressing the environmental impacts of Government procurement found that a number of Government departments are not yet on course to be practising sustainable procurement across their business by the end ...
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Tecam obtains the EcoVadis Silver medal rating once again for its sustainability performance
Tecam has obtained the Silver medal, which positions the company in the top 25% of all companies evaluated globally by EcoVadis, a globally trusted provider of corporate sustainability ratings. This is the third consecutive year that Tecam has obtained this EcoVadis medal. The EcoVadis rating evaluates 21 sustainability criteria of companies, divided into 4 main themes: environment, labour ...
By TECAM
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Crowberry Wins runner up prize for sustainable procurement at the North West Business Environment Awards UK
Crowberry Consulting was a runner up in the Sustainable Procurement category at the recent North West Business Environment Awards, held at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, UK. Crowberry takes active steps to ensure the sustainability of its own business process, purchasing green energy to run its office, 100% recycled paper, re-using materials such as toner cartridges, has its own Environment ...
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Updated Crowberry Consulting Ltd news
NEW OFFICE FOR Crowberry Consulting Ltd : Please note we have recently recolated and our new office address is Chorley Business and Technology Centre, East Terrace, Euxton Lane, Chorley, Lancashire, PR7 6TE and our new number is +44 1257 231171. Crowberry Consulting to exhibit at the Envirolink NorthWest Research and Development Conference, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester UK on Tuesday 13th ...
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Responsible sourcing in the mining and metals industry
The International Council on Mining and Minerals (ICMM) has published its first ever comprehensive guide on responsible sourcing for the mining and metals industry. ICMM CEO Tom Butler said, “as society increasingly seeks to purchase goods that have been produced in socially and environmentally responsible ways, we felt it was important to develop guidance on what good practice looks like ...
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Sustainability in the Global Construction Industry 2012-2013: A Global CEO Survey
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Sustainability in the Global Construction Industry 2012–2013: A Global CEO Survey http://www.reportlinker.com/p01023321/Sustainability-in-the-Global-Construction-Industry-2012–2013-A-Global-CEO-Survey.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Construction_and_Building ...
By ReportLinker
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Our commitment is rewarded with silver
When numerous athletes competed for the coveted medals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in July and August of this year, Heimbach was also able to enjoy "precious metal": silver! Instead of sportiness, however, sustainability and compliance were required in this case. In the "Other Technical Textiles" segment, we made it into the top 25 at Ecovadis, a renowned sustainability rating platform for ...
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Additional information on New York `chemical avoidance list`
In our memorandum dated January 6, 2010, we alerted you to a recent activity in New York in connection with the development of a 'chemical avoidance list.' The list, which reportedly consists of approximately 85 chemicals, would include chemicals that New York government agencies should avoid buying. By way of background, last May the Advisory Council of the New York Interagency Committee on ...
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Recovinyl recyclers to exhibit at BPF PVC event in Manchester, UK
Recovinyl-accredited PVC recyclers will be exhibiting for the first time at a British Plastics Federation one-day seminar on October 2nd in support of the UK forum’s focus on sustainability within the UK PVC industry. The four recycling companies - PVC Recycling Ltd, vinyl flooring manufacturer Polyflor, VEKA Recycling, part of the VEKA UK Group and plastics recycler UKBF will be ...
By Axion Group
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BSR, Hilton Worldwide Launch Center to Help Business Make Sustainable Purchasing Decisions
BSR and Hilton Worldwide launched the Center for Sustainable Procurement today to help global business procurement managers integrate sustainability into their purchasing decisions—providing a unique set of research and information that will help make sense of the increasingly available product sustainability data. “Thanks to the important ...
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WRI and WBCSD update guide to sustainable procurement of wood and paper-based products
Today, WRI and the WBCSD release an update to the guide “Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-Based Products.” The guide is meant to help company managers—who are charged with making large purchases of wood and paper products but may not have the time or the knowledge to navigate all the different resources— as they develop and implement their procurement policies. ...
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City of Zurich share knowledge in recycling concrete with European cities
ICLEI member Zurich’s (Switzerland) Environmental Protection and Health Agency recently hosted a three-day visit for European practitioners to showcase their experience in reusing and recycling construction and demolition waste (CDW). Experts from The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital (Italy) and the Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority, HSY (Finland) travelled to Zurich to ...
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FMC receives silver medal from sustainability assessor, EcoVadis
FMC Corporation received an updated sustainability management score from EcoVadis, improving by eight points compared to the prior year, and earning a silver medal for the first time. The EcoVadis Network Impact Report assesses companies on the impact and tangible results of their ESG programs. “This score represents another milestone for FMC as the company continues its ...
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Sustainability as a Discipline?
Taiga Company Blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company Sustainability - CSR - Green Business - Do we have an exact, precise definition of what these terms mean or do they all blur together? Quite often in our business sustainability consulting the answer to many questions posed by clients is, "It depends". The truth of the matter is that the sustainability landscape ...
By 3BL Media
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Cut to control: the evolution of a sustainable supply chain
Taiga Company blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company Over the last few years the essence of business sustainability for most organizations has been to "cut to the bone and hope to survive". As we move towards better economic times, our professional consulting is asking: Are the years immediately ahead to be different or simply another shade of the same color? A ...
By 3BL Media
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