Category: Environmental News

The Sourcing Team Reconfirm Their Green, Sustainable and Ethical Credentials

The Sourcing Team, leading specialists in ethical, sustainable and compliant global sourcing and procurement, have once again reconfirmed their green, sustainable and ethical credentials with the latest Gold recognition for their CSR rating from EcoVadis, the international supplier sustainability ratings organisation for environmental and social practices within the global supply chain. This excellent result puts The Sourcing Team within the top global 5% companies that have been assessed by EcoVadis during 2016.

CIPS Fellows event – “Doing the right thing – people, planet, profit – the role of procurement in walking the talk!”

Sustainability and ethicability champion Gill recently attended a CIPS Fellows (Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply) event on Doing the Right Thing and the role of procurement.  The topics selected for the evening are all hugely topical and it is vital any responsible business understands and delivers on this ever growing range of …

Our slant on FT article “A week to celebrate free mousemats, USB drives and cupcakes” #PPWeek

Today is the last day of this year’s bpma #PPWeek celebration – all week we have been talking about the way to procure from the right supply chain – ethical, compliant and sustainable promotional products. How to ensure you get the right quality in order to protect your brand and …

Buyers of the future … up your game with a transparent and ethical supply chain!

Chatting with a couple of young relations last week (aged 8 and 12), I was struck by how savvy they are about environmental issues. Finally, it seems the messages are filtering through and they are recycling, reusing (and understanding why) both at school and at home. To them, it’s now …

Destruction of nature continues unabated. Car tyres dumped on the ocean floor off Fort Lauderdale in the US! So sad!

Destruction of nature continues unabated. Car tyres dumped on the ocean floor off Fort Lauderdale in the US! So sad! This headline, particularly with such an accusatory explanation, is very misleading… it makes it appear as if someone has just done something very bad; that we need to get angry about it and demand someone do something about it.