2020 Finalists

GreenZone contributes to society and the environment in terms of our employees, community and volunteering, donations, sustainable procurement and environmental impacts. GreenZone is committed to a decade of action to end the climate crisis.

GreenZone set out from the beginning to be leaders in the commercial cleaning industry by being a truly socially, environmentally and economically sustainable company tackling climate change face on. It is intrinsically woven in our DNA. GreenZone are proud of the exceptional service we provide to our clients, the way we do it and the growth we have achieved. We are proud to be the UK’s only truly green cleaning contractor and have a collection of numerous and unique third-party environmental accreditations which set us apart from anyone else in the marketplace. GreenZone loves the world we clean!

Homebuilder Redrow makes massive investment in communities and commits emphatically to inspiring the next generation to build, all while delivering 5-star customer service and adhering to its placemaking principles designed to create ‘a better way to live’.

Our recent Social Impact Report ensures, through rigorous self-assessment, that our impact on communities, the environment and biodiversity is positive, including:

• £314m invested in community infrastructure
• 1,712 affordable homes
• 93% of products, services and labour procured locally
• 98% of waste diverted from landfill
• 99.9% of timber responsibly sourced and credibly certified
• 160 trainees recruited, including 107 apprentices

Superior Essex Communications is the leading manufacturer and supplier of communications cable in North America. Our sustainable processes and products have proven us as the industry trendsetter as:

– The first and only company in our industry – and one of nine in the United States – with Zero Waste to Landfill certification, now for five years.

– The first and only Red List Free communications cable manufacturer.

– The first in our industry to offer transparency labels including Environmental Product Declarations, Health Product Declarations, Life Cycle Assessments and Embodied Carbon Analyses, now for 55 product families and 800 SKUs.

Tideway is building London’s ‘super sewer’ to intercept millions of tonnes of raw sewage that flow into the River Thames each year, cleaning it up for generations to come. We also want to ‘reconnect’ London with the river and leave the capital a lasting legacy by bringing jobs and recreation back to the river; creating new areas of public space; and investing in local communities, education, training and the supply chain. We are also setting new standards for sustainably delivering major infrastructure in transport; health, safety and wellbeing; responsible sourcing; supporting the vulnerable; and diversity and inclusion.

BDC is a leading London event space and home to over 100 companies. The family run business puts people at the heart of its strategy for delivering its objectives, with a culture of empowerment and innovation embodied in its values. BDC has long supported philanthropic activities, community projects, environmental initiatives and a strong commitment to health and wellbeing, all of which contribute to sustainable development. This continues to play a key part of the company objectives and day-to-day operations of the business; the importance of which is vital in establishing and protecting a better future for all.

Delphis Eco is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of environmentally-friendly cleaning products, and was the first in its sector to achieve DEFRA (EU EcoLabel) accreditation for the largest, certified range. Proudly holding two Royal Warrants for product quality and service excellence, in 2019 Delphis Eco also became a B-Corp.

Delphis Eco’s pursuit of a truly sustainable supply chain makes it unique amongst competitors. By putting sustainability at the heart of every decision, the environmental footprint of Delphis Eco is kept to an absolute minimum – with a positive knock-on effect on related sectors too.

At Follow Your Heart, we are dedicated to finding new ways to improve our sustainability by focusing daily on decreasing our impact on the world. Earth Island, our facility where we produce Follow Your Heart products, is the hub of these efforts and we have an entire department focused on advancing our sustainability initiatives, including the elimination of waste, using alternate sources of energy, choosing responsible ingredients and packaging, and community involvement.

Fourleaf are committed to making positive choices in everything we do to achieve our goal of being the most sustainable design agency in the world. By operating a highly ethical and sustainable business we have a distinct and proven positive impact on our staff, customers and the world around us.

Our own actions, business decisions and supply chain is very important to us and undergoes continual review. Our positive choices are driven by a dedicated and passionate management team, upheld and nurtured by shared values company wide and communicated to our clients and suppliers whenever possible.

JPA have developed a Low Carbon, Zero Waste approach to contract furniture refurbishment work.

We deliver improved environmental and social performance for our clients without impacting on costs, delivering reportable value whilst dovetailing seamlessly with existing procurement processes.

Every aspect of the business is aimed at reducing carbon through reducing scope 3 emissions, eliminating waste, delivering carbon neutral projects and specifying ethical, sustainable products.  We maximise existing furniture resources via a circular approach of furniture re-use, refurbishment, community re-homing, materials-re-working and recycling.

These factors combine to deliver positive, measurable social, environmental and economic impacts on our community and all stakeholders.

Piccolo is on a mission to use business as a force for good. Partnered with charities like Little Village and City Harvest, they’re dedicated to helping local families, one child, one family and one meal at a time.

By donating profits, meals and non-food items, they help parents get all the essentials they need for their growing families, while tackling childhood poverty and fighting food wastage in London.

As well as supporting local communities, their effort to lead the green revolution within the baby sector sets them on their way to becoming the UK’s most sustainable baby food company.

Media Smart is the advertising industry’s flagship education non-profit with a mission to ensure that every child in the UK, aged 7 to 16, can confidently navigate the media they consume including being able to identify, interpret and critically evaluate all forms of advertising. The programme provides free teaching resources and parent & guardian guides on subjects like social media, digital advertising, body image and influencer marketing which are delivered in the classroom, assembly, youth club or at home.  Ultimately, Media Smart builds media and digital literacy in young people, resulting in greater emotional resilience and wellbeing.

Holly has exemplified that companies don’t need to exceed a revenue threshold to implement sustainable practices. While championing socially responsible change at Horizon, she’s served as a catalyst, encouraging other companies to follow suit by speaking to the potential for companies, regardless of size, to give by leveraging collaborative partnerships and employee engagement. Although she humbly gives credit to employee participation and executive level support, it is her leadership that has resulted in Horizon being invited to join the Business Council for the United Nations and being named by PEOPLE Magazine as a Top 50 Company That Cares.

Trewin Restorick is the Founder and CEO of Hubbub, a charity and social enterprise that inspires ways of living that are good for the environment. Taking the step from a long-established and relatively secure job to create a new start-up was a huge risk but something that Trewin felt was necessary to revolutionise how we talk to the public about environmental issues. From day one, Trewin has put his heart and soul into Hubbub, and under his leadership it has grown to a thriving organisation that has delivered more than 60 trailblazing environmental campaigns in partnership with over 700 partners.

Richard Walker’s personal commitment to change the status quo, based on the dual imperatives of climate and social justice, has harnessed the power of 25,000 colleagues and built collaborative partnerships with campaigners and suppliers to lead bold campaigns with global significance. Iceland’s commitment to remove plastic packaging from its own label range has been widely credited as the turning point in driving industry-wide action on this issue, while the removal of palm oil ingredients from the Iceland own label range massively increased public awareness of the issue of tropical deforestation, and pressurised the industry to deliver commitments to end this.

Payam Zamani is the founder, chairman and CEO of One Planet, a hybrid tech firm and investor in early stage startups. Payam built One Planet with an ethos of sacrificial giving and universal philanthropy.

One Planet takes its social impact seriously as it operates a few wholly owned technology businesses, supports new entrepreneurs, helps bring ideas to life and encourages companies to consider their contributions to humanity. This philosophy is embodied in One Planet’s tagline, Innovation x Intention, as the company not only measures its financial success, but its contribution to the common good, aiming to make the world a better place. The company donates as much as 20 percent of its annual profits to charitable causes.

Amy Bray is a young conservationist who founded environmental charity Another Way in 2019 at 16 years old (www.another-way.org.uk).

Since a very young age Amy has been fascinated by the natural environment. After influencing her family to go plastic-free and live more sustainably she wanted to share her experiences with the wider public.

Amy delivers talks and awareness sessions to thousands of schoolchildren and adults, inspiring them to make changes to protect our environment.

Her current projects include opening more Another Weigh zero-waste shops, tree-planting, Another Way Ambassador Programme in schools, and Another Way Day – August 2020 nationwide events.

Aaron has spent the last few years talking about periods and campaigning to eliminate the stigma and associated shame.  We are the first period charity in the UK our work has created a new sector and disrupted the way we have perceived menstruation globally. Our vision is to create a world where all women have menstrual dignity. We provide pads to those without access. We run menstrual education classes internationally and work closely with a number of communities to eradicate period shame. Our campaigning has created many changes including the government providing free periods products to all UK schools.

Chimwemwe is young passionate person who seeks to improve social and economic development for young people by cutting the bridge between young people and how best to manage their finances and set financial goals to achieve personal and professional goals

Embrace Her project is a revolving fund that seeks improve social and economic development for young women under the age of 30 who sell vegetables and fruits in Chongwe distinct of Zambia. The women are trained with basic financial literacy and business management skills which they use to apply to their business and use to expand their business to improve their lives, children’s education and daily needs. The project runs in a period of six or eight months with business evaluation meetings to help seek for solutions to the challenges the women are facing.

The Eco Emeralds are a group of environmental activists, aged 9-11, from All Saints Catholic Primary School in Anfield, Liverpool, who have inspired thousands of children across the UK to become nature guardians through a national environmental campaign, Backyard Nature.

Backyard Nature is a national campaign funded by the Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation (IFCF) and grown by community platform Semble. As well as giving expert advice on how best to engage children like them, the Eco Emeralds created Backyard Nature’s first ‘Save the Bees’ mission, where 330,000 seedballs were given away from every Iceland store in the UK to children in the community, planting 15 million wildflower seeds. In February, the group fronted the campaign’s ‘Love Bugs’ mission and built a giant bug hotel, ‘Bugingham Palace’ inspiring thousands of other children to take action to protect nature where they live.

Under the theme ‘Through My Eyes’, Nicole took portraits of our young people, each one captioned with their thoughts on growing up in south London. Nicole regularly volunteers with BIGKID, supporting at youth club to develop more creative projects.

Nicole first came to BIGKID as an 11 year old in 2015. She would come along to Girls’ Football at Larkhall Park, but with limited interest in sports, she eventually stopped attending. Re-connecting with BIGKID in 2019, now as a 6th form A-level photography student, she was inspired to take part in our first art exhibition. Under the theme ‘Through My Eyes’, Nicole took a series of portraits of our young people, each one captioned with their thoughts on growing up in south London. Nicole now regularly volunteers, developing media content and supporting at youth club to develop creative projects.

When Chloe started getting bullied at the age of 13 she decided to use her experience to help other young people. She set up an O2 Go Think Big project that used music therapy to help young people deal with bullying. She went on a national schools’ tour and has spoken to thousands of young people across the UK. She has also worked on the Stop Speak Support and the #iwill campaign, using her voice to represent those who have experienced bullying. She continues to use her own journey to help others, saying ‘nobody is perfect but everyone is beautiful’.

Bella is a 17 year old conservationist using social media to educate and inspire in order to protect the natural world.  She is an ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, the RSPCA and the Jane Goodall Institute.

Bella has helped set up Reserva: Youth Land Trust to fund entirely youth driven nature reserves across the globe, the first of which is in Ecuador.  Having given a TedX talk in 2019 about the extinction crisis, she is using her voice to reach politicians and leaders across the globe.  In addition, she has just completed filming of the feature length documentary ‘Animal’ (to be released in October) to help provide solutions to the the sixth mass extinction.

Since taking part in the Street Child World Cup Moscow 2018, Samantha Richards has become a champion for street-connected young people. She now in the process of publishing a book of poetry and artwork created by street-connected young people.

There are millions of children surviving on the streets worldwide. Life on the streets for these children is filled with danger. Instead of receiving support, they are often blamed for their situation and stigmatised. As a result, they face violence and abuse. Although they are vulnerable, they are also resourceful and resilient – but are denied the opportunities they need to realise their potential. Street Child United puts on international sporting events where street-connected children from around the world take part. This gives the young people a voice and helps change people’s negative perceptions of street-connected children.

Samantha Smith created this non-profit project when she was just 18, on her gap year, during a dark phase of her life. She is the founder and head of the project, helping with lectures and every beach clean up.

Ocean Hope organises weekly beach clean ups, as a way to join the community and alert it to the excessive consumption of plastic – and, consequently, its impact on marine life -, as well as our behaviour to these problems. We also organise lectures with schools or other entities. We are a team of 7, all less than 23 years old, with a great passion for this cause: each of us have a different background and have shown that regardless of our differences and personal lives, we are all united for a greater cause.

BizATE is a small business development training programme which tackles deepening poverty in Lawra Municipality, Ghana where the majority of the population struggle to survive on subsistence farming. It does so by enabling the set-up and growth of small enterprises through training and mentoring to ensure their success in an extremely challenging economic environment. Workshops are tailored to a range of trade groups and designed to work inclusively for small business owners whom have low levels of literacy. Investing in training of local trainers is a key element, enabling local people to facilitate change in their community.

Borough Market is the only fully independent market in London. An Act of Parliament from 1754 that helped establish Borough Market in its current form stipulated that the Market must remain “an estate for the use and benefit” of the local community “for ever”. The body responsible for fulfilling this is a charitable trust, run by a board of volunteer trustees.  The trust is committed to supporting the local community around Borough Market.  We regularly run community events, free cookery demonstrations and we support local community projects and schemes.

At St Mary’s RC Primary School in Chiswick, West London, air pollution levels were four times the legal limit, and pupils were regularly kept in at playtimes to protect their respiratory health.

A small group of parents set out to build a green wall to combat air pollution in the playground, with support from the local community.

Working with local businesses, local government, community groups, sponsors and industry partners, the volunteers not only raised £100,000 to construct the largest green wall at any school in the UK – they created a new public amenity space and brought their community together.

IGNITE Worldwide is an international non-profit leading efforts to close the gender gap in STEM. IGNITE creates opportunities to spark girls’ excitement about STEM, working directly with schools to offer free programming during the school day so all girls and non-binary students can participate. Through field trips to technology and engineering companies, hands-on STEM workshops, conferences, and panel discussions with women STEM professionals, girls and non-binary students recognize new possibilities for their futures. During the 2018-2019 school year, IGNITE Worldwide supported 3,400 students in 18 school districts in the United States, in addition to chapters in 40 countries.

Morsbags is a community-based movement based on creativity, kindness and a conviction that volunteers worldwide can make a difference by making and giving away reusable, recycled bags made from material destined for landfill.

So far, over 372,000 morsbags have been made by over 2000 pods in 45 countries potentially replacing 193 million plastic bags. Morsbags reduces the need for plastic bags but the movement is about so much more – hope, and communities becoming connected, proactive and positive. Schools, universities, care homes, rehabilitation programmes, food banks, mental health schemes, bereavement groups, guides… the list goes on…are involved.. Please join us!

‘Jua’ means sunshine in Swahili, so ‘Project Jua’ is the perfect name for a project that brings solar power to schools and health clinics in the hardest-to-reach parts of Kenya for the first time. Launched in 2017, this £2m project funded by OVO Foundation is improving health and education outcomes for 300,000+ people by providing lighting and powering lifesaving equipment. Project Jua also paves the way for energy to be a key component of other education and health programmes in the development sector by focusing on data collection to better understand institutional energy needs.

Wild Shots Outreach supports young South Africans from disadvantaged communities in accessing their wildlife heritage and developing employment skills through the innovative use of photography. It teaches transferable skills, builds self-esteem and helps raise the aspirations of these learners – Africa’s conservationists of tomorrow. WSO prioritises high school students from government schools and unemployed youth bordering Kruger National Park. These young people have never had the opportunity to visit a game reserve.  This award-winning educational programme engages, inspires and enhances access for these impoverished students to their wildlife heritage – catalysing and igniting a passion for conservation.

Capgemini is transforming the lives of refugees and people from disadvantaged backgrounds through a partnership with Code Your Future, offering end-to-end support through a series of eight-month training programmes, providing Capgemini mentors and, crucially, offering employment opportunities at the end.

Establishing office-based homework clubs, immersion days, and opportunities for creating project portfolios, we enable students to develop more than tech skills – providing practical experience for a technology career, as well as working with partners to introduce much-needed soft skills.

We have built a lasting partnership with Code Your Future to deliver joint ambitions of creating an inclusive technology sector.

Rethink Periods is a free, nationwide schools programme run by City to Sea: a not-for-profit, campaigning to stop plastic pollution at source. The programme offers unbiased, timely information designed to update outdated, sexist period education whilst exploring the social and environmental contexts of menstruation.

Schools receive training enabling them to deliver thought-provoking lessons to their pupils feeling confident and well informed. They receive a product demonstration box filled with organic/plastic free/reusable products which gives pupils the chance to explore their options first-hand whilst probing questions and points for investigation within each lesson encourage them to deepen understanding and re-evaluate perceptions.

Pupil-led food waste project, encouraging children and the wider school community to take action on food waste, both in school and at home. The project used innovative methods including experiential learning (hands-on activities), co-design and a whole school approach.

The school programme consists of a series of six interactive workshops culminating in an event for the whole school and wider community, delivered in 24 schools across London. The curriculum-linked workshops were focused on food waste and healthy and sustainable eating, with the key message of ‘choose food that is good for you, and good for the planet’. All workshops are now freely available in a downloadable education pack.

The project used innovative methods including co-design, a whole school approach and experiential learning (hands-on activities) such as planning and delivering a whole school campaign day, led by pupils themselves.

Katalyst started in 2007 with the intent of liberating women from low income communities, through the pursuit of professional education. The initiative prepares young women for leadership roles, thereby creating a wider talent pool for India Inc and helping bridge the gender divide. Katalyst achieves this objective through a blend of unique interventions. Katalyst has four chapters in India and has impacted the lives of 1200 girls. Katalyst alumni occupy positions of seniority in prestigious MNCs and Indian companies in India and abroad. Katalyst is an initiative of Third Sector Partners, India’s leading executive search firm focused on socially relevant organisations.

NatWest MoneySense is our flagship financial education programme for 5-18-year-olds, helping them to make sense of money and build a better financial future. Since 1994, it has helped more than 7.7 million young people learn about money.

The MoneySense programme has been created with the help of teachers, parents and young people. It is linked directly to the national curriculum and has been awarded the Financial Education Quality Mark.

Easy to use, interactive and fun, the MoneySense programme provides everything you need to teach young people about managing money in a way that’s relevant to their lives. Resources are free to use for teachers and families at mymoneysense.com, and the programme is supported by a network of enthusiastic bank employee volunteers, who help deliver workshops in classrooms, supporting teaching staff to bring the outside world into schools.

We create systems where food becomes the solution and not the problem, where children’s basic needs are met so they are in a position to become thriving members of their school and community. Healthy people, healthy planet.

By collaborating with organisations from education, food and the environment, and working with communities/schools we help people develop a positive relationship with food with the message of helping to save the planet rather than focussing on individual needs – or as we like to call it “Stealth health”.  We do this by showing that people can make a huge difference to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and the huge environmental challenge that faces us all, simply through the food they eat.

Wild Shots Outreach supports young South Africans from disadvantaged communities in accessing their wildlife heritage and developing employment skills through the innovative use of photography. It teaches transferable skills, builds self-esteem and helps raise the aspirations of these learners – Africa’s conservationists of tomorrow. WSO prioritises high school students from government schools and unemployed youth bordering Kruger National Park. These young people have never had the opportunity to visit a game reserve.  This award-winning educational programme engages, inspires and enhances access for these impoverished students to their wildlife heritage – catalysing and igniting a passion for conservation.

We set up Careershifters because we were moved by the huge number of people around us who are unhappy in their work. Our mission is two-fold: firstly, to help others like us make successful shifts into more fulfilling work and, secondly, to be a model of the kind of organisation that we want to see more of in the world. To this end, we’ve deliberately crafted a culture at Careershifters that we call ‘Fulfilment First’, which is based on the belief that the more we prioritise the fulfilment of our team, the more successful we will be as a business.

Genuine Solutions has created an all-encompassing employee programme to enhance physical and emotional wellbeing. We believe our focus on increasing engagement and building a fun company culture is paramount to achieving growth and success for the business. At Genuine Solutions, we strive to maintain a positive working environment where each employee feels rewarded, recognised and part of the family.

GreenZone recognises that our most important asset is our staff and we never forget it is they who are at the forefront of our service delivery; their skills and attitude define the GreenZone service.  Quality service starts with investment in our staff and making them feel a valued member of the GreenZone ‘family’.  GreenZone is only as successful as our team members make us.  Success depends ultimately on the qualities of our people – their commitment, energy, imagination and persistence. This investment in staff pays back many times in a loyal and productive workforce, stability, enthusiasm and pride.

Serious aging of society increases the need for home medical care in Japan operating 24/7, but this is not being met promptly due to nurses’ heavy workload and women’s delayed participation in society. Sophiamedi created a system called Nurse Support Triangle: 1) North Star Project to create a vision together, 2) workstyle WOW! and 3) Mental Support System for medical staff. These improved nurses’ working conditions, resulting in a 160% increase to over 800 employees in 2 years. The resignation rate was about 17% 3 years before, and decreased to about 8%; this is rare in this industry.

Childbase has committed to a reduction to net zero emissions by 2030. This has evolved out of measuring company carbon emissions and takes into account scope 1,2 and 3 emissions to make a true difference in regards to sustainability.

The project has been used, not only reduce emissions but also to engage key stakeholders with the process based on a ‘no action too small’ approach.

The project is intentionally simple as the aim is to not be the only company to follow this approach but to encourage and prove that sustainability is achievable at any level.

Concha y Toro UK is the second largest wine supplier in the UK and a subsidiary of Concha y Toro, Latin America’s largest wine company. The business recognises its responsibility to reduce its environmental impact in shipping wine from South America. By monitoring and measuring its footprint at every stage of the winemaking and shipping process, and combining with the UK’s most environmentally-friendly bottling company, we were able to reduce the carbon footprint of the wine to the UK port by over 50%, and delivered to our end customer by 28%.

The project is a structured Carbon Management Programme (CMP) started with help from the Carbon Trust in 2007. By developing and implementing a structured programme Norwich City Council has made impressive strides towards decarbonising its operations, purchasing 100% renewable power, switching to EV’s and hybrid vehicles and retrofitting buildings across its estate to increase energy efficiency and to decrease carbon emissions. Our emissions have fallen by 59.6%!

We also have a programme called One Planet Norwich that extends our low carbon aspirations into the citizen and business of Norwich helping them to make pro environmental behaviour choices.

Barley Communications and Barnardo’s campaign tapped into rising public interest in single-use plastics and grabbed the public’s attention with a news story highlighting the damaging impact of single-use fashion as an issue of equal weight. Through polling the target audience to understand their attitudes to buying second-hand as a sustainable alternative to fast fashion, giving the public a clear call to action, and carefully targeted media engagement we generated extensive media coverage and boosted sales and footfall to Barnardo’s shops. Barnardo’s retail performance has bucked a trend and continues to outperform the sector with clear year-on-year growth.

Travel emissions account for 69% of our environmental footprint. Our ConnectWell campaign brings together virtual collaboration technology with organisational behaviour change to transform how our people connect, collaborate and deliver, while reducing travel. New technology, dedicated collaboration spaces and training are critical.

Business sponsors and a network of passionate, knowledgeable virtual collaboration advocates helped to challenge myths and assumptions.

This programme encompasses both our own UK workforce and client organisations for wider impact. It demonstrates proven eagerness to embrace new technology for environmental good if given the resources and ongoing support needed to make virtual collaboration an everyday occurrence.

Earthwatch’s Sustainability Leadership Programme is a unique model of employee engagement, targeted at creating positive and impactful environmental change within multi-national businesses. Rooted in immersive outdoor learning experiences, the programme has provided 1,876 employees globally from our corporate partner HSBC, with a deeper understanding of sustainability issues.

Through direct contribution to scientific research and local conservation, Earthwatch has supported HSBC employees to both identify individual actions addressing climate issues, and to align their work with HSBC’s sustainability priorities, embedding climate positive behaviours into everyday business at one of the world’s leading banks.

Leeds By Example is the UK’s largest collaborative campaign to trial new approaches to recycling on-the-go. Hubbub worked with 57 partners to introduce consistent infrastructure, bold, eye-catching communications and new technology to change recycling behaviour, in Leeds City Centre.

It successfully recycled 1.2 million coffee cups, 140 000 good quality cans and 160 000 plastic bottles and increased number of people recycling in the City Centre from 17% to 49%.

It’s legacy is Leeds City Council permanently continuing the scheme, the brand expanding to talk about the climate emergency and the best learnings expanding to Swansea and Edinburgh under #InTheLoop

Through innovative behaviour change activities, Investec reduced waste per person by 58kg (26%) and increased its recycling rate to 83% since 2018. Investec engages with its staff on the importance of reducing and recycling their waste as part of their induction, defining expected behaviours. Our environmental behaviour change champions, Team Green, run regular awareness raising campaigns and behaviour change activities around the issues of waste. Whether it’s a sustainable fashion week or plastics fishing in the Thames, colleagues are given the tools, insights and know-how to adopt sustainable waste behaviours.

In 2019, 187 of our restaurants generated circa 7,300 tonnes of food, glass, mixed recyclable packaging and general waste. We’ve pioneered the reduction of waste, our project results demonstrate our sector leading environmental credentials.

Commitment, planning, delivery, engagement and education have been the key to our success. They’ve been created by re-evaluating our approach to waste at every restaurant. It’s transformed our business targets and strategies as well as the working culture and attitudes of our employees.

We’ve inverted the waste hierarchy by Reducing, Repurposing, Recycling and Recovering more waste than ever before through our programme “The Recycling Revolution”.

Borough Market’s aim is to put every leftover piece of food or packaging to the best possible use—to see raw materials where others see refuse. Nothing goes to landfill. All cardboard, paper, plastic, glass or wood is recycled. Our partnership with the food waste charity Plan Zheroes sees surplus produce distributed to local charities. Spent coffee grounds are transformed into biofuels and fertiliser, used in planting beds around the glass fronted Market Hall. All remaining food waste is sent to an anaerobic digestion plant.

The RPR shows the consumer exactly how much recycled content is in the packaging they’re buying, empowering consumers to live sustainably by purchasing products packaged in Post-Consumer Recycled content. The RPR is easily recognisable and will be understood by manufacturers and consumers on a national scale. 28 different marks currently exist showing whether or not packaging is recyclable. Zero marks exist to show the exact percentage of recycled content in packaging, with the RPR, the confusion is removed and consumers will be able to see if the packaging contains recycled content, and how to re-recycle it.

Ecobooth is a circular economy event company, using only waste materials to create engaging events and experiences for environmentally conscious brands.  We don’t just create zero waste, we actually process problem waste streams with every stand we build.

Partnering with brands, charities, events and venues, Ecobooth have been designed to align with the principles of the Circular Economy.  We design with always with materials’ next life in mind and build using only problem waste materials such as ocean waste plastic, our low impact production house and carbon efficient logistics allow us to create truly sustainable events and experiences.

Genuine Solutions UK (GSUK) exists to save planet earth, one recycled product at a time.  The company finds new uses for mobile phone handsets and accessories by sorting them, cleaning them, testing them and releasing them in A1 condition for a new life.

Building a circular economy is the entire purpose of the business. GSUK recovers, reuses and recycles unwanted mobiles and accessories. To date, we have stopped more than 8,000 tonnes of electronic waste from ending up in landfill by repurposing and recycling more than 10,000 phones and more than 200,000 units of accessories every month since 2007.

Leanpath is the leading global provider of integrated, scalable, measurement-focused technology solutions for food waste prevention in foodservice.  Scaling rapidly, our vision is to ensure a sustainable future by eliminating global food waste, and our mission is to make food waste prevention everyday practice in the world’s kitchens.  Through measurement, data analytics, and behaviour change, we help foodservice organisations achieve the ultimate circular win – preventing the occurrence of food waste in the first place – avoiding all associated resource consumption impacts and environmental externalities from production and distribution of that food from farm to fork.  Prevention enables “pre-circular” savings.

Superior Essex Communications is the leading manufacturer and supplier of communications cable in North America. Our sustainable processes have proven us the industry trendsetter as the first and only company in our industry – and one of only nine in the United States – with a Zero Waste to Landfill certification, now for five years. We worked passionately for a decade to become a more sustainable manufacturer, remaining vigilant over our waste reduction, recycling and reuse programs; verifying that our partners do the same; and maintaining our resource reduction efforts to minimize our water use, electricity consumption and carbon emissions.

CHOOSE has developed a completely biodegradable paper bottle that can replace traditional PET bottles. The bottle is made from natural, sustainable and renewable materials including recycled newspapers. It is able to transcend industries and works for many different of products. CHOOSE launched its first product in January 2020, with the world’s first biodegradable washing up liquid. This acted as a stepping stone to prove the technology works as a commercial alternative to plastics. They are working with some of the largest brands in the world to bring paper bottles to shelves across the globe as fast as possible.

Delphis Eco is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of environmentally-friendly cleaning products, and was the first in its sector to achieve DEFRA (EU EcoLabel) accreditation for the largest, certified range. Proudly holding two Royal Warrants for product quality and service excellence, in 2019 Delphis Eco also became a BCorp. Delphis Eco’s pursuit of a truly sustainable supply chain makes it unique amongst competitors. By putting sustainability at the heart of every decision, the environmental footprint of Delphis Eco is kept to an absolute minimum – with a positive knock-on effect on related sectors and households.

Garçon Wines are the inventors of eco, flat wine bottles made of 100% pre-existing, recycled PET that are modelled on the traditional wine bottle shapes but are remarkably more cost-effective, eco-friendly, and consumer pleasing for delivery, retailing, and the supply chain. Garçon Wines’ award-winning bottles enable game-changing, complementary transit packaging that amplify the bottle benefits, improving convenience and functionality for consumers and offering an unbeatable opportunity to slash carbon emissions and business costs from the supply chain of wine to create a healthier planet, wealthier industry and happier consumers – a benchmark of triple bottom line, scalable sustainability.

The WasteMaster system from Green Eco Technologies (GET) diverts food waste from methane-generating landfills, instead converting this waste on-site into a much-reduced amount of residual material,  which can be used for green energy through anaerobic digestion and other useful purposes.  GET’s WasteMaster, which is installed in hotel, hospital, school, residential and hospitality locations, transforms organic waste, without adding water or other additives, into a virtually odourless, compost-like residue, which can be stored and won’t attract insects and vermin in its dry state. The WasteMaster system also measures actual waste quantities being loaded for reporting purposes to support waste minimisation activity.

We began making beeswax wraps in 2017 as part of our own personal mission to cutdown on our reliance on single use plastics, from our tiny kitchen we have now grown to a team of 15 and have recently moved into our new solar powered workshop. We are very proud to be B Corp certified and are on a mission to be a truly positive influence on our local and global community.

We hand make every beeswax wrap using local UK beeswax, organic GOTS certified cotton, organic jojoba oil and natural pine resin.

Barley Communications and Barnardo’s campaign tapped into rising public interest in single-use plastics and grabbed the public’s attention with a news story highlighting the damaging impact of single-use fashion as an issue of equal weight. Through polling the target audience to understand their attitudes to buying second-hand as a sustainable alternative to fast fashion, giving the public a clear call to action, and carefully targeted media engagement we generated extensive media coverage and boosted sales and footfall to Barnardo’s shops. Barnardo’s retail performance has bucked a trend and continues to outperform the sector with clear year-on-year growth.

In 2018 Canary Wharf Group launched ‘Breaking The Plastic Habit’, a campaign designed to influence Estate-wide behaviour at Canary Wharf which resulted in the elimination of more than 2 million items of single-use plastic, and the capture and recycling of over 5 million more items. As a result, on World Environment Day 2019, Canary Wharf became the first commercial centre in the world, and the first district in London, to achieve Plastic Free Communities status from marine conservation charity, Surfers Against Sewage.

The pressures of the plastic crisis have planted themselves firmly in the public consciousness. As global environmental impact grows, stakeholders and consumers are demanding more from brands; from transparency to tangible action. Dove’s challenge lay in reconciling the impact of its prior actions with the changes it wanted to make.

Dove’s strategy was to expand and accelerate actions against plastic waste, and develop a communications approach that would capitalise on the brand’s historic and new initiatives to tackle plastic waste – positioning Dove as an industry leader who would set the pace in inspiring global action.

The current banking system is broken. Since the 2016 Paris climate agreement, the top five UK banks have pumped nearly £150 billion into fossil fuels. ‘Change your bank, change the world’ was designed to motivate consumers to use their money as a force for good by switching to an ethical bank, only funding organisations creating positive social and environmental change. The campaign message delivered maximum impact and is one of Triodos’ most successful campaigns to date, helping to hit current account application targets and deliver a 200% increase in brand awareness last year.

Bax Botanics alcohol-free spirits were created by Chris and Rose Bax after 20 years of inspiring and teaching about wildfood and flavour in their Yorkshire woodland. They love botanicals using them in diverse culinary ways from ice-cream through to savoury dishes and all the preserves and beverages in between. The alcohol-free spirits came about after a camp-fire conversation about how little there was to excite the palate, that didn’t contain alcohol.

Two different styles/flavours have been launched – Verbena: bright, refreshing summer herbal. And Sea Buckthorn: relaxing, bittersweet Mediterranean botanicals. Both can be mixed with tonic or used in cocktails.

Ecobooth is a circular economy event company, using only waste materials to create engaging events and experiences for environmentally conscious brands.  We don’t just create zero waste, we actually process problem waste streams with every stand we build.

Partnering with brands, charities, events and venues, Ecobooth have been designed to align with the principles of the Circular Economy.  We design with always with materials’ next life in mind and build using only problem waste materials such as ocean waste plastic, our low impact production house and carbon efficient logistics allow us to create truly sustainable events and experiences.

Retrospecced is a social enterprise aiming to provide a more sustainable glasses option, founded by mother and daughter team, Tracey and Lucy Crane in 2017. They upcycle vintage and designer glasses, in partnership with the charity Vision Aid Overseas (‘VAO’) and donate 20% of what each frame is sold for to VAO to help support their amazing work providing vision care across Africa. Tracey is an optician by trade, so Retrospecced is able to customise each frame with whatever lenses the customer wants, from prescription to varifocals through to sunglasses and blue control! It’s believed this social enterprise is unique.

TOTM launched in 2016 to make periods better – for people and the planet.

4.3 billion disposable menstrual products are used in the UK each year but can contain up to 90% plastic. Period products are the fifth most common item found on Europe’s beaches – more widespread than take-out cups or plastic straws.

We created our range of organic cotton and reusable period care to fight plastic waste and built a brand that actively fights the taboo surrounding menstruation. Our products are available online, in Tesco, Superdrug, Urban Outfitters (UK & US) and the bathrooms of forward-thinking workplaces.

Y.O.U underwear makes soft, stylish, organic cotton underwear for men and women that lets you look good, feel good and do good.

We have a buy-one-give-two promise in partnership with Smalls for All, a Scottish charity that collects and distributes underwear to vulnerable women and children in Africa and the UK.

Our underwear is Fairtrade, PETA-Approved Vegan and made from 100% GOTS Certified Organic Cotton. We believe in promoting body positivity; we’ve hidden inspirational messages inside our underwear, use people of all shapes and sizes as models and never airbrush our images.

Aligned is an infrastructure technology company that offers adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions to cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers. Our intelligent infrastructure allows densification and vertical growth within the same footprint, enabling customers to scale up without disruption, all while maintaining industry-leading Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and their sustainability goals. By reducing the energy, water and space needed to operate, our data center solutions, combined with our patented cooling technology, offer businesses a competitive advantage by improving sustainability, reliability and their bottom line.

Smart Electric Urban Logistics, in partnership with UPS and UK Power Networks with support from Innovate UK, is an initiative to improve air quality in London by developing new charging technology that overcomes the challenge of simultaneously recharging an entire fleet of electric vehicles without the need for an upgrade to the power supply grid. The smart charging system is a first of its kind, incorporating onsite energy storage and active network management. 20 diesel trucks were converted to fully electric models, and a timed connection assessment tool was also developed by the electricity network operator.

Every day through social and traditional media, people are bombarded with information and images about a frightening  and uncertain ecological future. The climate crisis can make anyone despair. Where do you even start? Ecoed is here to help people of all ages engage with the sustainability issues of our time in a fun, engaging way, whilst taking positive action. We are also the first learning platform to offer data analysis on different audiences’ strengths and gaps of knowledge. By analysing users’ responses, we are able to better understand what each groups’ specific learning needs are.

Glassbusters manufacture, sell and maintain glass crushing machines for the hospitality sector.  The Glass ‘buster’ allows venues to declutter spaces to create a safer more organised working environment and to compact and seperate glass waste at the source. The glass waste that is produced is collected and taken to recycling centres by Glassbusters  for the purpose of remelting back into bottles.  The glass collected is shard free, contamination free and suitable for the remelt industry, with 0 going to landfill.

SkedGo is a mobility-as-a-service enabler, providing the technology for multi and mixed modal trip planning, management and payment solutions to governments, enterprises and start-ups. SkedGo has created unique proprietary algorithms to support more connected, inclusive and sustainable travel.

Born from a desire to reduce single occupancy car use, its web and mobile apps aggregate all available transport modes to provide travellers with mobility options tailored to their personal preferences. SkedGo’s mission is to improve communities everywhere, one trip at a time, and the company is committed to positively impacting 1 billion people’s journeys worldwide by 2025.

The Good Exchange is a not-for-profit, charity-owned, online platform representing the future of the third sector. Technology that automatically matches local and national projects to grant makers’ specific funding criteria and goals; facilitates strategic thinking and drives funder collaboration. Its single application process cuts charities’ administration overheads, to ‘reverse crowdfund’ resulting in optimum fundraising with measurable impact.

The Good Exchange aims to drive innovation and change in the charitable sector just as companies such as GoCompare and Spotify did for the insurance and music industries – a win-win for all parties.

Each year, more than 120,000 people are lost in Russia – a vast country with harsh weather conditions and, often, a lack of resources. Beeline Russia’s technical expertise and communications infrastructure powers Liza Alert, a non-profit organisation dedicated to finding missing individuals. Beeline helped develop and deploy a cross-carrier SMS-based portal and hotline, and mobile app, to manage and coordinate the volunteer network. Beeline also helped develop an AI-based, 5G-powered image recognition system to process thousands of drone images in real time. Supported by our partnership, Liza Alert has become one of the biggest volunteer movements in all of Russia.

The RPR shows the consumer exactly how much recycled content is in the packaging they’re buying, empowering consumers to live sustainably by purchasing products packaged in Post-Consumer Recycled content. The RPR is easily recognisable and will be understood by manufacturers and consumers on a national scale. 28 different marks currently exist showing whether or not packaging is recyclable. Zero marks exist to show the exact percentage of recycled content in packaging, with the RPR, the confusion is removed and consumers will be able to see if the packaging contains recycled content, and how to re-recycle it.

Rethink Periods is a free, nationwide schools programme run by City to Sea: a not-for-profit, campaigning to stop plastic pollution at source. The programme offers unbiased, timely information designed to update outdated, sexist period education whilst exploring the social and environmental contexts of menstruation.

Schools receive training enabling them to deliver thought-provoking lessons to their pupils feeling confident and well informed. They receive a product demonstration box filled with organic/plastic free/reusable products which gives pupils the chance to explore their options first-hand whilst probing questions and points for investigation within each lesson encourage them to deepen understanding and re-evaluate perceptions.

CHOOSE has developed a completely biodegradable paper bottle that can replace traditional PET bottles. The bottle is made from natural, sustainable and renewable materials including recycled newspapers. It is able to transcend industries and works for many different of products. CHOOSE launched its first product in January 2020, with the world’s first biodegradable washing up liquid. This acted as a stepping stone to prove the technology works as a commercial alternative to plastics. They are working with some of the largest brands in the world to bring paper bottles to shelves across the globe as fast as possible.

Smart Electric Urban Logistics, in partnership with UPS and UK Power Networks with support from Innovate UK, is an initiative to improve air quality in London by developing new charging technology that overcomes the challenge of simultaneously recharging an entire fleet of electric vehicles without the need for an upgrade to the power supply grid. The smart charging system is a first of its kind, incorporating onsite energy storage and active network management. 20 diesel trucks were converted to fully electric models, and a timed connection assessment tool was also developed by the electricity network operator.

Garçon Wines are the inventors of eco, flat wine bottles made of 100% pre-existing, recycled PET that are modelled on the traditional wine bottle shapes but are remarkably more cost-effective, eco-friendly, and consumer pleasing for delivery, retailing, and the supply chain. Garçon Wines’ award-winning bottles enable game-changing, complementary transit packaging that amplify the bottle benefits, improving convenience and functionality for consumers and offering an unbeatable opportunity to slash carbon emissions and business costs from the supply chain of wine to create a healthier planet, wealthier industry and happier consumers – a benchmark of triple bottom line, scalable sustainability.

The Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery Expert Directory (HTMSE) is an e-commerce initiative working within the human rights and antislavery sector. It is an open, free, online, central contact directory and eLearning platform enabling collaboration and cooperation between stakeholders in the human trafficking and modern slavery sector. It provides access to specialists in all different professions and disciplines from around the globe. To combat the complex and global issue, the need for international and interdisciplinary cooperation is critical. The platform connects both victims to professional support and professionals to professionals for engagement on research, litigation and projects.