Does the multi-billion pound rail investment overlook sustainability?
Multi-Billion Pound North West Rail Investment The UK Government’s confirmation of multi-billion-pound rail investment across the North West marks one of the most ambitious periods of infrastructure renewal the region has seen in decades. New stations, upgraded routes, and modernised facilities tied to Northern Powerhouse Rail promise faster journeys and stronger regional connectivity. Just as […]
Driving Change
Driving Change: Formula E’s Fast Track to Sustainability Formula E was built to challenge assumptions about what motorsport could be. A decade on, it’s not proving a point; it’s setting the pace. While other series are still stuck in the pits of debating net zero, Formula E is already running a global championship with sustainability […]
Success Through Sustainability: Logistics and Transport
An overview of the challenges the logistics sector must overcome to maintain sustainability and how Avena Group can help logistics companies get ahead. Like many industries, the logistics sector is passing through a perfect storm of circumstances that in combination, make sustainability almost seem an impossible task. In this blog post, we take a look […]
Is Fashion Ready For New Sustainability Legislation?
With 2025 bringing new climate commitments, brands and suppliers in the fashion industry need to work hard during 2024 to ensure their supply chains come up to scratch. The last two years have witnessed a marked increase in the focus on traceability. Traditional hubs of fabric and garment manufacturing such as China and Bangladesh […]
School & University Sustainable Rebranding: Text Books, Uniforms & Media
When schools, universities and other educational institutions undergo a rebrand, the new identity must be applied to a wide range of items to ensure brand continuity across all touchpoints. This frequently results in large amounts of stationery, uniforms and media becoming obsolete due to its bearing the discontinued identity. In this blog post, we look at […]
How Can Fashion Become More Sustainable?
The fashion sector in general – and fast fashion in particular – has a problem with projecting an image of sustainability. Rapidly trending designs are the oxygen that keeps the industry going and high-volume, low-cost production makes clothing accessible to the masses while creating economy of scale. All this results in enormous volumes of clothing […]
A Paperless NHS: Why The Delay & Is There An Alternative?
Back in 2013, health secretary of the time Jeremy Hunt announced that the NHS would be paperless by 2018. On paper (pardon the pun), this was a highly desirable improvement both in terms of environmental impact and operational efficiency but in practice, it would appear that the timescale was too ambitious. The target date was pushed […]
Forterra Takes Aim at the Fabric of Net Zero Goals
Building products manufacturer Forterra provides workwear to all of its personnel working both offsite and at 17 manufacturing locations. So when they studied how they could implement meaningful net zero policies across the company, disposal of old and worn out workwear came under scrutiny. They knew that under their existing workwear disposal scheme they were […]
Circularity In The Auto Industry: How Car Manufacturers Are Recycling Used Workwear
Automotive manufacturers Honda recently revealed how end-of-life workwear from their US manufacturing and R&D facilities is being saved from going to landfill. Instead, the garments are shredded into fibres that are repurposed as sound-absorbing insulation in Honda and Acura vehicles. For an industry that is constantly in the spotlight to become more sustainable and environmentally […]
NHS & Net Zero Targets: How Avena Can Help
In 2020, NHS England launched it’s ‘For a greener NHS’ campaign and a roadmap towards becoming the world’s first net-zero public health service. it was to be a significant contribution to carbon emissions reduction, as NHS England was, at the time, producing about 4% of the UK’s carbon emissions. With suppliers clamouring to do business […]