KFC Announces Ban On Single-Use Plastic Straws Across Its 250 Outlets In France

With COP26 on the horizon and the Race to Zero underway, we’re helping small businesses to start and continue their journey to becoming sustainable businesses.  
 
You don’t have to go green overnight, but small steps are still progress. So, how can your business move towards reducing energy consumption and making changes in a sustainable way? Here are five areas of your business to consider.  

As the European Union seeks to transition to a ‘circular economy’, the policy focus in 2021 will turn to products: how they are designed, and why so many seem to be made to throw away. The European Commission wants to transform the way we produce and consume products. And when an initial strategy to do so wasn’t delivering as much as hoped, the EU executive gave it another shot earlier this year. The ‘Circular Economy action plan 2.0’, unveiled in March, is a renewed attempt to change the way we produce, use and dispose of goods. Like its predecessor launched five years ago, it doesn’t contain hard legislation yet but instead sets a series of goals, like halving municipal waste by 2030, some of which will be translated later on in hard legal requirements. Main ideas include giving consumers a new “right to repair” for computers and smartphones, establishing green criteria for construction products, updating existing resource use indicators, and planning a Sustainable Product Policy Framework.