Last night the Guardian Sustainable Business Awards 2015 took place and King’s PhD student Richard Milburn went along to find out about the event. As the Guardian says ‘ making and keeping a business sustainable is a challenge’. These awards gave the opportunity to highlight some innovative businesses and those that have created a positive impact in becoming more sustainable.
The awards focus on a whole range of businesses; those that had sustainability at their core from the start and those that are now trying to incorporate it into their already function business. The awards consider businesses from a wide range of sections and consider those both large and small.
The awards are meant to showcase people and projects that are helping businesses to become more sustainable and work to improve people, the planet and profits.
This year the winners ranged from the large superstore M&S to the slightly smaller company GENeco, a sustainable solutions company who focus on waste (‘we make waste work’).
Here are a few of the winners from this year:
- Neal’s Yard remedies won the Innovation award for Supply Change
- Divine chocolate won the Innovation award for social impact
- GENeco won the Impact award for waste
- IKEA won the Impact award for Net Positive
- M&S won the Impact award for Natural Capital
- Carbon tracker won the Innovation award for communicating sustainability
- Wyke farms won overall winner for carbon and energy management
- Carbon trust won the Innovation award for built environment
If you would like to find out more about all the winners and how you can get involved next year here.
