Envirowise offers free website advice to food and drink businesses

The call comes as measures to cut the nation's collective CO2 emissions are being ramped-up in the UK via the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme, which opens for registrations on 1st April. Free, practical advice is being made available to help companies and their suppliers become more carbon literate through more effective use of cleaner design, which can help to significantly reduce both raw material and energy use. A live webinar is being held on the 17th February at 10.00am featuring talks from Envirowise eco-design specialists Rob Holdway and Mark Dowling. The session - which is open to businesses of all sizes and sectors - will focus on carbon as a measure of a company's environmental performance. Live demonstrations from case study companies including Canon and Paladone Products will demonstrate how they made changes themselves and harnessed the benefits of 'clean' design. Meanwhile this is being supported by a series of interactive video design stories illustrating how UK businesses have used eco-design to reduce the environmental impact of products and packaging. Jenni Donato, Envirowise Cleaner Design specialist, said: "With carbon issues now consistently in the news headlines, businesses are increasingly sitting-up and taking notice by analysing their own impact and taking steps to minimise this. However, many have still not yet considered cleaner design as a tool in their armoury. "In fact, we've had feedback from a number of businesses that senior management appear reluctant to put this topic on the boardroom agenda. So to help food and drink manufacturers secure the support they need from their management team, we have created a suite of compelling video case studies that can be used as part of presentations or proposals."