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edie's Sustainability Leaders Awards 2020: One month left to enter

Businesses looking for the recognition they deserve have just one month left to enter edie's 2020 Sustainability Leaders Awards, closing 27 Septe...

The entry deadline is Friday 27 September 2019, with the Awards then taking place on the night of 5 February 2020 at the Park Plaza London, Westminster. 

Reading & Leeds festivals pledge to go plastic-free

The organiser of large-scale UK music festivals Reading and Leeds has committed to making both events free from single-use plastics by 2021....

More than 160,000 revellers head to Reading & Leeds festivals every year. Image: Leeds Festival
The new quarterly Business Barometer has been designed primarily for members of edie's Energy Leaders Club – the free members club for in-house energy managers and practitioners

Closing on Wednesday: Last chance for UK energy managers to take new 'Business Barometer' survey
Meeting the aims of the Pact will require signatories to consider changing their business models and supply chain approaches. Image: Kering

Fashion giants vow to end contributions to global warming and ocean plastic pollution
This week's innovations could drive significant change in the transport, construction and food sectors 

SAP's app against poverty and self-charging EVs: The best green innovations of the week
The reverse vending machines offer users a 10p discount coupon for every plastic bottle inserted

Iceland collects more than one million plastic bottles in reverse vending scheme
Tesco has already set goals to remove non-recyclable plastics from its own-brand lines by the end of 2019, and to halve own-brand packaging by weight against a 2007 baseline by 2025. Image: Tesco

Tesco boss: We'll delist brands that use excessive plastic packaging
Pictured: Women use water for washing equipment at Goolni Tea Estate in Sylhet. Photo: Abir Abdullah/WaterAid 

Twinings partners with WaterAid to improve sanitation in tea supply chains
Iceland was criticised by Feedback for failing to stock any meat sourced through sustainable certification schemes

UK supermarkets accused of over-producing low-quality meat
Download the entry guide at the bottom of this story for more information about the awards

Sustainability Leaders Awards 2020: Meet the judges

With the 2020 Sustainability Leaders Awards now open for entries, edie takes a closer look at the esteemed panel of judges who will be presiding over ...
Recent PwC research found that AI could help reduce global emissions by up to 4% by 2030

Energy leaders urge government to back international AI climate centre
The UK's peatlands currently embody around 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon - the equivalent of nine years' of national emissions 

UK must ban peat use to reach net-zero, Veolia argues