5 empowering insights from the FuturePlanet community and network. Read on to discover solutions on food systems, circular design, water risk, and green claims. Read on for inspiring story on rights of rivers.
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The UK food sector employs more than 13% of our workforce, yet professional cooks and chefs remain largely overlooked within food systems transformation. By valuing and equipping them, we can have healthy diets and transform our food systems to become sustainable and resilient. City St George's report recommends: updated curricula covering nutrition, environmental sustainability, sustainable sourcing and supply chain resilience; clearer career pathways; and coordinated policy across public procurement and school food education. [Read more]
The rights of rivers movement is gaining momentum in the UK. The Ouse in Sussex gained a charter in February 2025, and the Wye has now become the first to hold cross-border rights from source to sea, endorsed by councils in both England and Wales. This also means that, for the first time in the UK, Wye gets a voice in the boardroom. Ecologist Dr Louise Bodnor was appointed in April 2025 to formally speak and vote on Wye's behalf in official meetings. [Read more]
Waste professionals know what breaks down at end of life but have little influence on design decisions upstream, while designers make those decisions without ever seeing what happens downstream. URGE Collective and CIWM bridged that gap through their Design Skills for Embedding Circularity programme, taking a cohort of designers through facilities operated by FuturePlanet member SUEZ, Biffa and others. Biffa and Decathlon have now set live design challenges covering vape waste, lithium battery disassembly and scalable reusable packaging. [Read more]
Water risk across a company's value chain is harder to see, harder to name and harder to act on than risk in direct operations. Until now there has been no common language to assess it. WRI, together with WWF and others, is co-developing Corporate Guidance for Assessing Water Scopes 1-3 in Value Chains. It builds on existing tools to create a standardised approach to water risk assessment and disclosure to CDP, GRI, TNFD and CSDDD. The guidance is in development and WRI's technical perspective sets out the framework approach now. [Read more]
Before any green claim goes out, there is now a free checklist to run it against, with dedicated versions for retailers, brands selling through third party retailers, and suppliers and manufacturers. The Competition and Markets Authority's "Making green claims: Getting it right, across the supply chain" sets out exactly who is responsible when claims pass between each of those roles, with a checklist and illustrative examples for each. It builds on the 2021 Green Claims Code and applies to every business in the chain from raw material to shelf. [Access here]
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