Uncovered: Sustainability

Uncovered: Sustainability

An interview style deep dive with companies into a specific sustainability issue that – with the help of ING –they solved. Explore how decision makers, facing major sustainability changes are making it happen. The concerns, conversations, obstacles and wins. And how they were able to get to the finish line without giving up. Host: Kate Prescott

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January 8, 2024 20 mins

In this episode, you’ll dive into the challenges of one of the world’s biggest integrated bottle recycling scheme. We’ll explore how Romania, a country with one of the lowest recycling rates in Europe, is turning things around with a unique partnership involving RetuRO, drinks producers and brewers. Make no doubt this is a recycling revolution aiming to quickly change the environmental landscape by removing metal, primary glass and...

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In this episode, we’re tackling a huge challenge: making the textile industry, especially jeans, more eco-friendly. We’ll explain the challenge of recycling blended material and how SANKO, one of the world's biggest jeans manufacturers, is leading the way with a new circular approach to making clothes. We show what is needed to make such a big change. We explore the EU’s mission to eliminate all textile landfills by 2025. Most impo...

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September 18, 2023 12 mins

The story of how one in every five lightbulbs in New York City will be powered by renewable hydro energy from Canada. We hear how one of North America’s biggest clean energy projects was created in tune with the environment and people’s homes. Champlain Hudson Power Express moves energy hundreds of miles from Northern Canada to power New York by a sustainably built, buried power line. This is how they are making it happen.

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September 18, 2023 22 mins

Figures suggest every cup of coffee that’s produced, on average, destroys around 5 cm squared of rainforest. From next year, coffee will not be allowed to enter the EU market unless it’s deforestation free. So you have to prove it. Coffee changes hands so many times that producers and suppliers have to work on one big thing; “traceability” and reduce the number of people who own it. In this episode we go to a coffee plantation in U...

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September 18, 2023 16 mins

Find out how one of the world's best known office area was rebuilt. Manhattan West was poorly linked with lots of small undesirable buildings. Post COVID companies need to sell their offices to employees and make them a destination rather than an existence. This is about how you sustainably transform tired 1980’s blocks, in the world’s most famous city, into an inspirational centrepiece, praised by architects around the world. And ...

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