1. Top Sustainability Leaps
•O2 has cut the running costs of 550 desks. This has saved £3 and most of its workers began
to enjoy an improved work-life balance.
•Marks and Spencer's Plan A of 2007 marked a debut by having all its operated stores,
offices, warehouses and delivery fleets in the UK and Ireland carbon neutral.
•Marks and Spencer's sustainable suit launched in 2013 is made from organic wool and
linings from recycled plastic bottles.
•Standard Chartered's staff donated their last hour's pay of 2011 to the programme
tackling preventative blindness 'Seeing is Believing'. About 30 million people benefited
from such programme.
•Starbucks has initiated to lower the temperature of its air-conditioned stores by 3 F and by
purchasing cabinetry worth 90% post-industrial material
•Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) Family Medical Center conserved space and
reduced heat-island effect on the site by implementing underground parking.
•PUMA’s latest shoe bag ‘shoebox’ will save one million liters of water, 8500 tons of paper
and one million liters of oil each year.
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