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• The festival washroom

  29-06-2023 14:04 via chtmag.com
  
  Toilets at music festivals are notorious for being crowded, messy and unsanitary facilities. Stuart Hands, Sales Manager of Tork manufacturer Essity, considers how the festival washroom could be improved.
  Open-air music festivals are the ultimate celebration of summer. There is nothing more uplifting than listening to one’s favourite bands in the sunshine alongside fellow music-lovers.
  But an unpleasant trip to the toilet could colour the whole experience. A lengthy queue to visit a dirty,
  
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• CIWM calls on Prime Minister to push ahead with proposed waste reforms

  29-06-2023 13:47 via chtmag.com
  
  CIWM (Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) has written to the UK Prime Minster, Rishi Sunak, calling on him to push ahead with “the comprehensive and forward-looking reforms on packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) and consistent collections that the Government introduced in its 2018 Resources and Waste Strategy”.
  The letter follows recent reports that a further delay to EPR is under consideration. CIWM makes the point that whilst there have already been several del
  
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• ISS names Kasper Fangel as new Group CEO

  29-06-2023 12:35 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Workplace experience and facility management company, ISS, has appointed Kasper Fangel as the company’s new Group CEO, effective from 1 September.
  This appointment follows the resignation of Jacob Aarup-Andersen in March, who has accepted a new position as CEO of Carlsberg Group.
  Kasper, the current Group Chief Financial Officer of ISS, brings a wealth of experience and expertise to this new role. ISS says his career has seen him demonstrate “exceptional leadership skills and a deep
  
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• JLL expands relationship with the FCDO into Europe

  29-06-2023 11:41 via fmj.co.uk
  
  flickr image CC credit: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  JLL has been appointed by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) for the delivery of facilities management and property related services in 12 countries and project services in 22 countries across Europe.
  The initial seven-year contract, which will see full-service delivery in Europe commence in December 2023, builds on the existing partnership that JLL has with the FCDO in Asia-Pacific, where JLL has been de
  
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• Government urged to push ahead with proposed waste reforms

  29-06-2023 10:50 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Following recent reports that a further delay to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is under consideration, CIWM (Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) has written to the UK Prime Minster, Rishi Sunak, calling on him to push ahead with “the comprehensive and forward-looking reforms on packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) and consistent collections that the Government introduced in its 2018 Resources and Waste Strategy”.
  CIWM makes the point that whilst there hav
  
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• Northwood Consuma Tissue confirms expansion plans

  29-06-2023 10:16 via cleaningmag.com
  
  Northwood Group launched Northwood Consuma Tissue (NCT) in December 2022 and has now announced the expansion of its converting capability with the purchase of a new 14-acre site housing a 235,000 sq ft facility in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
  
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• Human connection is missing link to building a future-proof workplace

  29-06-2023 09:28 via fmj.co.uk
  
  UK employees still prefer remote working and are more cost-conscious than ever, according to Sodexo’s new Work Experience Tracker research.
  The research conducted in collaboration with YouGov, revealed that out of the 3,000 respondents in the UK one in five were dealing with poor mental and physical health, 20 per cent are quiet quitters and 23 per cent stated they wanted to quit.
  These issues are likely to impact business performance and business leaders need to reflect on the causes and
  
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• Glastonbury Festival clean-up operation under way

  29-06-2023 01:00
  The great Glastonbury clean-up is well under way as volunteers and clean-up crews congregate on Worthy Farm to collect piles of rubbish.And despite the festival's "Love the farm, leave no trace" policy there were still hundreds of tents, plastic bags, food containers, laughing gas canisters and cans strewn across the site after festival-goers had departed.But the situation is improving, according to Glastonbury's organisers. Around 99 per cent of all tents have been taken home after each event s
  
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