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MAJOR GLASGOW SHOPPING CENTRES BACK INNOVATIVE CUP WASTE INITIATIVE IN SCOTLAND
Glasgow Fort and Buchanan Galleries have confirmed that they are supporting Cup Movement®
in Glasgow – the
first Scottish initiative to stop single-use cups going to landfill or ending up as litter. Cup Movement®
has been
developed by environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful in response to growing public concern about the environmental impact of single-use items. With an estimated 95 million single-use cups being used in the Greater Glasgow area every year, the pioneering Cup Movement®
project
will tackle this issue head- on by transforming the recycling infrastructure
and encouraging people to adopt more sustainable behaviours. Glasgow Fort and Buchanan Galleries have also signed up to Cup Movement®
’s recycling
service, provided in collaboration with Simply Cups, which will divert millions of cups from their bins and instead transform them into second-life materials. Cup Movement®
aims to
reduce single-use cup waste, by transforming recycling infrastructure, working with partners to install convenient recycling and cup collection points across the city and targeting the
Two international awards for Mabbett & Associates Ltd
Mabbett & Associates Ltd was proud to be recognised by not one but two internationally- renowned awards at a glittering ceremony in San Diego, California. Managing Director, Derek J McNab and Chairman Arthur N Mabbett travelled to San Diego to accept the awards at the Environmental Business Journal’s Business Achievement Awards Ceremony. They picked up the two trophies for outstanding business
performance in 2018, namely the Business Achievement Bronze Award in the Small Firms category and the New Practice Areas Award for their growing Safety Group. This achievement is
thanks to Mabbett’s continued business growth and success. Despite a severe slowdown in the growth of the UK sector, exacerbated by Brexit worries, Mabbett has continued to buck the trend, growing revenue- income by 17 per cent over the past three fiscal years.
Six academics from universities across Japan visited Kibble’s residential and safe centre in Paisley
Japanese academics travel to Kibble to learn from Scottish care approach
Six academics from universities across Japan have visited Kibble’s residential and safe centre in Paisley to learn from their approach to care and education for young people. Following the recent
Derek McNab, Managing Director, Mabbett; Grant Ferrier, CEO, Environment Business International Inc, and Arthur Mabbett, Chairman, Mabbett
formation of The Japanese Society of Social Pedagogy, the professors have travelled to Europe to research how social pedagogy is accepted, promoted and practiced in European countries. Social pedagogy
emphasises that bringing up children is the shared
responsibility of parents and society, giving young people more control over their lives with care and education provided alongside them. Kibble is embracing and embedding a social pedagogical culture. The professors travelled from Fukuoka Prefectural University in Tagawa, Kyusyu University in Fukuoka, Konan Women’s University in Kobe and Iwate Prefectural University in Takizawa, with the hope of taking back to Japan ideas shared about the Scottish initiatives.
city’s thousands of regular cup users to make more sustainable choices. It will be the largest, sustained, cup waste-
Glasgow Fort and Buchanan Galleries are supporting Cup Movement®
in Glasgow
reduction initiative of its kind in Scotland and, if successful, the model could be rolled out across many more cities in the UK.
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