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BANTAM Materials is amongst the 95 firms to have agreed to work towards halting and reversing the decline of nature by 2030.
The organisations have signed up to the Council for Sustainable Business’ (CSB) Get Nature Positive Campaign, which challenges businesses to take further sustainability actions.
Burberry, ITV, Sainsbury’s and Unilever are amongst the firms to join Bantam Materials in signing up.
Those involved have each made pledges, with OVO Energy announcing it is to plant one million trees in the UK within the next year; Burberry will ensure all its ‘key materials’ are 100% traceable by 2045; and Sainsbury’s will ‘slash’ their impact across nature by 2030.
Bantam Material’s sign up comes as it looks to continue its pioneering Prevented Ocean Plastics programme, which is having an ever increasing presence in supermarkets.
Raffi Schieir, co founder and director of Bantam Materials, said, “The climate crisis and plastic crisis are inextricably linked, and in order to tackle both we must clean up the plastic waste in our natural environment.
“This is exactly what we aim to do through Prevented Ocean Plastic, a certified recycled plastic that’s been collected from coastal areas in developing countries at risk of ocean plastic pollution that so far has prevented one billion bottles from entering our oceans. Joining the Get Nature Positive campaign is the next step in our journey. We’re delighted to be part of it, and thrilled to see other leading UK businesses joining us.”
Liv Garfield, CEO of the Council for Sustainable Businesses, hosted the event at COP26 in which the participating organisations unveiled their new actions. She said, “Every business in the UK, whether they know it or not, impacts nature and has a role to play in protecting it. No nature, no business – it’s that simple. There should not need to be a choice between business success and nature, the two should go hand in hand.
“95 UK businesses backing Get Nature Positive is truly phenomenal. This level of support allows us to begin our journey of making a difference and helping the UK become a greener, more resilient country. Whether it’s businesses planting trees, saving water, helping to restore peatland or improving rivers, the UK are now global leaders in protecting nature for generations and tackling challenges from climate change, biodiversity and nature loss head on.”
