Smartstreets-Smartbins: A smarter approach to cigarette and gum litter
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement confirmed that Local Authorities are facing tough times with budgets being held down next year to deliver a freeze in council tax followed by an expectation of efficiency savings the following year. This will inevitably mean that there are some hard decisions to be made as councils juggle the budgets across […]
Eco Friendly Shopping
In 2012 the Centre for Retail Research issued a report on Retail Ethics and Green Retailing*. One of their key findings was that “Green Retailers need Green Customers”. Essentially it doesn’t matter whether retailers choose to go green for ethical reasons, for operational reasons or to gain a commercial advantage; their efforts will be in […]
Leasing zero-emission vehicles
The Department of Energy & Climate Change’s recent report on tackling climate change identified which it calls the “energy efficiency paradox” in business. Noting that business seems to require a higher level of pay-back than domestic adopters, the report says that “organisations use economic arguments in their thinking about energy efficiency but these are set […]