Biodiversity: the Basics
How your business can support biodiversity Every business should have a biodiversity strategy, even professional services, digital and technology businesses in city centre locations. While biodiversity might seem more directly relevant to agriculture, food...
Energy case study: Terra Spirits & Liqueurs
Terra Spirits & Liqueurs is Ireland’s largest family owned Irish Cream Liqueurs producer. Through a series of energy efficiency installations and improvements over two years they have been able to save €15,000 on heating bills alone and have reduced their total...
Energy: where to start?
Your best business sustainability starting point is to look at your business’s energy efficiency and your energy suppliers. Step 1 Measure Pick a year to measure and stick to that for all of the key areas. Energy Energy used by company facilities,...
Energy: the Basics
What is energy? Simply put, energy is the usable power that comes from resources such as heat and electricity. Renewable energy is created from resources that are replaceable and renewable, like wind, solar power, and wood pellets. These exist in abundance in nature...
Plastics case study: Elopak
Who is Elopak? Elopak is a Norwegian-based, globally-operational supplier of carton packaging for liquids and beverages. With their environmental and plastics footprint in mind from the outset they are a market leader in the sector. Their standard beverage carton...
Plastics: where to start?
Start small and think big Set an ambitious target for your business to switch to plastic alternatives. You could aim to be a plastic-free business in 18 months and work back from there. Look for the quick wins, for example, getting rid of single use plastics (SUPs)...
Plastics: the Basics
What is plastic? Plastic is a loaded word nowadays, almost synonymous with the fast-paced, throwaway consumer society in which we live. In a relatively short amount of time (the first fully synthetic plastic Bakelite was invented in 1907) our lives have been...
