Achieving ongoing sustainability
improvements requires long term relationship driven change.
Today, these linked concepts sit at the very heart of modern circular business models. New research released by MIT Sloan Management Review this week explores exactly this. ‘Find a Circular Strategy to Fit Your Business Model’ details how the simplified circular principles to ‘use less, use longer use again, use differently’ can enhance an organisations ability to meet its net-zero emission and sustainability goals.
We know that it has never been more important to challenge existing processes and invest time in exploring new ways of doing everyday tasks. The United Nations ActNow campaign inspires everyday people to act for the Sustainable Development Goals – encouraging everyone to take one action to create the future we want.
This issue of Earth Evolution profiles some of the latest examples of innovation and sustainability efforts across our sector that have recently caught our attention. We hope you enjoy reading them and maybe even feel inspired to make a small change yourself.
Dave and the PalletEarth team
A new carboard packaging line at Greenyard Prepared in Belgium will offer more sustainable packaging for its fruit and vegetables. The new line expands its existing lineup of sustainable packaging options for ambient foods.
Building on its adoption of a sustainability-linked financing facility, Co-op’s latest targets aim to reduce carbon emissions across its supply chain by: doubling suppliers enrolled in the Science Based Targets initiatives programme; targeting a 650 tonne reduction in food waste; and doubling the annual funding of the Co-op Levy Share.
A joint report from the Accountability Framework initiative and CDP has found that while the achievement of deforestation and conversion-free supply chains is possible, it is still uncommon around the world.
Recycling technology firm Polytag announced M&S as the founding member of its Ecotrace Programme which aims to benchmark and improve recycling rates. The initiative utilizes Polytag's innovative UV tag detection technology to obtain invaluable real-time insights into the collection and sorting of single-use plastic packaging.
With the adoption of warehouse automation accelerating, this special report by Rick Le Blanc looks at the implications for pallet quality, what is driving the trend, the types of automated systems involved and how co-design can help to ensure an efficient solution.
Morten Johansen, COO of DP World Americas, shares his views on what companies really need to consider to build sustainability into the heart of their companies.
In this episode of Science Weekly on the Guardian, Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer explains what we can learn from the most ancient plants on Earth, why we need to cultivate gratitude for the natural world and what western science can learn from Indigenous knowledge.
Achieving ongoing sustainability
improvements requires long term relationship driven change.
In this video Carl McInerney, Director UK and Europe, talks about how companies need to prepare for these legislative changes and how PalletEarth’s new pallet solution can help deliver sustainability goals while addressing five key challenges facing supply chains in this new landscape.
With the world looking to make efficiency gains wherever possible automation across supply chains is underway.
Dave Cashmore talks about how its new pallet solution helps to make the movement of, and interaction with, pallets safer for your people.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it” Abraham Lincoln
In the fourth issue of Earth Evolution we continue to keep you up to date and informed on the latest innovations, trends and news in the supply chain industry
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
In the second issue of Earth Evolution we continue to keep you up to date and informed on the latest innovations, trends and news in the supply chain industry
In PalletEarth’s third whitepaper, we explore real-world case studies showcasing the immediate cost savings and rapid return on investment (ROI) that companies can achieve through well-implemented AI technologies.
“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles.” Oren Harari
This is our last newsletter for 2024. The team and I wish you all a happy and, if possible, relaxing festive period wherever you may be based in the world and whatever your plans are. We look forward to talking more in 2025.
To deliver true circularity, each pallet must come back to source. Hear Dave Cashmore talk about how the PalletEarth team works with each of its customers and their supply chain partners to establish a return route, which in many cases will already exist.
Published on Business Desk, by Brent Melville, Friday 6 January
