DATES FOR THE
FM DIARY
08-10 OCTOBER 2019
UK Construction Week 2019
NEC, Birmingham
www.ukconstructionweek.com
16-18 OCTOBER 2019
World Workplace 2019 Conference
Phoenix Convention Center, Arizona, USA
www.worldworkplace.ifma.org
11-15 NOVEMBER 2019
Workplace Week London
www.workplaceweek.com/uk/
london-2019
13-14 NOVEMBER 2019
LuxLive 2019
ExCeL, London
https://luxlive.co.uk/
26-27 NOVEMBER 2019
CIBSE Build2Perform Live 2019
Olympia, London
www.build2perform.co.uk
27 NOVEMBER 2019
FM Chirstmas Party
Beat, London
http://bit.ly/2MJ60NE
27-28 NOVEMBER 2019
EMEX: Energy Management Exhibition
ExCeL, London
www.emexlondon.com
20 FEBRUARY 2020
Workplace Futures
One Great George Street, London
www.workplace-futures.co.uk
04 MARCH 2020
Kimberly-Clark Professional Golden
Service Awards 2020
www.goldenserviceawards.co.uk
18-20 MARCH 2020
World Workplace Europe
Amsterdam, Netherlands
www.worldworkplaceeurope.ifma.org
19-21 MAY 2020
Facilities Show 2020
ExCeL, London
www.facilitiesshow.com
OCTOBER 2019 7
Company of Cooks
merges with CH&CO
Bespoke caterer, Company of Cooks,
is to join forces with independent
caterer and Royal Warrant holder,
CH&CO.
Company of Cooks, which has
business in London and the South
East of England and a turnover of
£35 million and 600 employees,
operates in the visitor attraction
and cultural sectors, including at
RHS Garden Wisley, the Royal Opera
House and the National Portrait
Gallery.
The merger will enable Company
of Cooks to gain the extra support
that a larger organisation like
CH&CO supplies in particular
in back offi ce functions but
also in learning & development
opportunities for team members.
BCO unveils the best
of the British offi ce
sector
The BCO’s National Awards
programme recognises top quality
offi ce design and functionality and
sets the standard for excellence
across the offi ce sector in the UK.
The winners of 2019 are as
follows:
Best of the Best and Commercial
Workplace
2 Television Centre, London
Corporate Workplace
Janet Nash House, Durham
Refurbished/ Recycled Workplace
Hanover, Manchester
Innovation
Ingenuity House, Interserve UK
Hub, Birmingham
Fit Out of Workplace
Deloitte HQ, 1 New Street Square,
London
Projects up to 1,500
Live Works, Newcastle
Test of Time
PwC, 1 Embankment Place, London
LANDMARK LAUNCH TO
IMPACT CLEANING SECTOR
Cleaning operators are asked to support a new era in
how products are packaged to give immediate visibility
of virgin plastic content in what they are buying.
In a landmark move, ‘Generation Z’ children, their parents
and business united on 20 September, alongside Greta
Thunberg’s London Global Climate Strike, to lobby industry
and consumers alongside the Government to get behind the
‘Recycled Plastic Rating’ – a campaign which sees the launch
of a new trust mark enabling us to take back control of what
plastic actually gets recycled, versus what gets dumped into
the oceans.
There is total confusion amongst operators and consumers
with over 28 di erent marks on what is, and what is not,
recyclable. And, a total breakdown in trust in what is
segregated at home for recycling yet gets chucked into the
same dump truck and, we now know, lands up in a foreign
land and most likely the sea.
A first of its kind, the move to launch the new RPR, follows
research that reveals that 79 per cent of people support
clearer labelling of plastic packaging to help them determine
its impact on the environment and allow them to vote with
their pockets when it comes to purchasing behaviour.
The entrepreneur and philanthropist who is behind the
RPR, Mark Jankovich, stated: ”Having a rating which shows
the amount of recycled plastic content in the packaging we
buy will instantly give caterers, retailers and consumers the
power to vote with their wallets and chose packaging that
is fundamentally diverting plastic from landfill. The RPR
will enable everyone to see, at a glance, the exact plastic
credentials of products they are purchasing.”
He added: “We need to turn this completely on its head and
not talk about what might or might not be recyclable, but
what percentage of the packaging we are buying HAS been
recycled. When consumers do this, manufacturers will have
no choice but to package their products in more responsible
packaging, resulting in the waste collectors, recyclers and
Government fixing the woefully under-invested infrastructure
and behaving more responsibly. This will divert millions of
tons of single use plastic from going into the environment and
circle it back as a totally new product.
“We’ve spoken to a number of companies, academic bodies
and NGO’s and they all agree that there needs to be much
more clarity and focus around what is recycled, and that we
should unite behind one mark that consumers can trust.
“The overall aim of the campaign is to radically simplify,
from 28 possible options to just one industry standard, the
Recycled Plastic Rating which consumers need to look out
for when buying goods. We hope the Government will take
action and make the new RPR mandatory on all packaging;
encourage the acceleration of how single use plastic can be
given a second life; and increase scrutiny of exactly HOW
plastic is recycled in the UK.”
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