Product of Change – the global educational hub aimed at driving sustainable change across consumer product markets, including housewares – presents another of its well-received Sustainability 101 Workshop on May 11 (Informa Offices in London’s Blackfriars). Products of Change’s net zero ambassador and advisor, June Kirkwood, and POC’s founder, Helena Mansell-Stopher will deliver the educational session aimed at those taking their first steps towards sustainability.
The event in May follows a successful in-person debut for Sustainability 101 in March. Businesses from across the consumer and licensing products space – including representatives from housewares specialist Pure Table Top – joined the interactive session to ‘broaden their knowledge of the topic’, start the conversation with colleagues, and look at how to apply sustainable measures across their business. Pure Table Top has promised some large and exciting plans in sustainable solutions in the coming months.
“We all recognise that business needs to transition if we are to meet the needs of our consumer tomorrow,” says Helena Mansell-Stopher, founder of Products of Change. “Transitioning the industry to a more sustainable future will require systems, innovation and embracing new ways of operating. The technologies we need for a better future exist today. However, it’s understanding these new innovations, such as the circular economy, and starting to adopt them into our everyday that will enable business to flourish and our planet to stabilise.”
Adds Helena: “The energy and enthusiasm from the room at our first in-person workshop was proof that there is a desire from the industry to learn the necessary skills to innovate for the future.”
Created as a base line for the consumer goods industry’s sustainability journey, the team will present the basic principles on how businesses and individuals can take the next step on their sustainability journey, and also host a networking session for attendees afterwards. The workshop will challenge attendees to think about their own relationship with the subject of sustainability, while offering eye-opening facts and figures about the key concerns around it.
The workshop will be exploring ideas around the circular economy and highlighting some ‘quick wins’that companies and individuals can achieve to set them up for larger conversations or actions moving forward.
May’s Sustainability 101 Workshop will be followed later in the year by a special workshop on the circular economy, hosted by Products of Change’s advisor and independent sustainability consultant, Arthur Parry, in July.
Tickets for May’s Sustainability 101 are £120 plus VAT, with a 20% discount for Products of Change members.
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