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Net Zero Now and Loopcycle collaborate to support operators on the road to Sustainability

Loopcycle and Net Zero Now are partnering to support customers with their sustainability goals.   Net Zero Now provides hospitality businesses with all the tools to start their journey towards Net Zero and a standard against which to certify those that do.  The netzero.restaurant platform provides businesses with a carbon footprint, reduction targets and a tailored action plan and is now integrating…
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PARKDEAN RESORTS INTRODUCES NEW ENERGY-SAVING INITIATIVES

Parkdean Resorts, the UK’s leading holiday park operator, has introduced a trio of new energy-saving initiatives as part of its ongoing commitment to caring for its people, parks and planet, reducing its environmental impact while also driving cost savings.  The trial, which includes the introduction of electric vehicle charging points and electric vans, and the…
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Red Engine becomes latest Operator to join Loopcycle platform

Red Engine, the company behind Flight Club Darts and Electric Shuffle has become the latest commercial kitchen operator to join product traceability platform and 2022 Waste2Zero Award nominee Loopcycle, building a digital ecosystem in which valuable equipment is traced, managed and recovered across its lifecycle. “By using the Loopcycle platform we are not only extending…
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Talking Talent: Making Hospitality Careers More Compelling

The hospitality industry is in the midst of a staffing crisis. This has worsened over the last few years due to Brexit and Covid, to the point that one in eight food sector roles is now vacant[1]. As a result, many foodservice operators have had little choice but to cut operating hours, reduce menu options…
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Coca-Cola bottler partners with local businesses and charity to help regenerate Birmingham’s canals ahead of the Commonwealth Games

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) GB, the largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola globally, is partnering with the Canal & River Trust on an FMCG sector initiative to enhance areas along the Birmingham canal network ahead of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The initiative will see more than 60 CCEP colleagues, along with some of their customers, including colleagues…
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Challenges, opportunity & collaboration: Dr Emma Keller of Nestlé UK&I

Just over a year on, after moving from the WWF to become Head of Sustainability for Nestlé UK&I, Dr Emma Keller talks about the challenges she’s faced, the opportunity to make an impact, and how industry collaboration and employee buy-in will be critical over the coming years if the sector is to achieve impact at…
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Loopcycle joins UKHospitality, setting out plans to work with the UK’s leading foodservice operators

Loopcycle digital platform joins UKHospitality, aiming to support its community by innovating equipment management and recovery through traceability. Loopcycle connects an ecosystem of businesses across the foodservice equipment supply chain to help improve operational efficiency, sustainability and facilitate adaptation to the new circular economy standard, in line with the UK and EU government plans. Having started in the…
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Otter Brewery launches Pints Mean Trees initiative

Otter Brewery, one of the country’s foremost regional brewers, has partnered with Devon Wildlife Trust to launch an exciting and ambitious environmental initiative. ‘Pints Mean Trees’ is a specific campaign that will support the Trust’s, ‘Saving Devon’s Treescape’ project, and will commit Otter Brewery to plant a tree for every brewer’s barrel they sell in…
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MJD In Partnership with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Makes Total Switch to HVO Biofuel GD+  To Cut Carbon And Particulate Emissions 

MJD, road hauliers to blue chip companies including Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), has announced a total transition to an Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) drop-in biofuel called GD+ across all its haulage operations. The fuel will be used with immediate effect in MJD’s existing diesel engine trucks, with no modifications required, and will cut carbon emissions by…
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