With sustainability becoming a more significant part of our daily life, most businesses have adapted to these changes. So they tend to have a large variety of jargon throughout their pages, which they use to describe all the changes done and the different methods they use to become a viable option for sustainable business such as yours! As we search through the various pages of brands and manufacturers, we can sometimes become overwhelmed by all the acronyms found throughout them. There is such a broad aspect to sustainability and different needs for different industries. Having a business such as yours comes with the responsibility of keeping yourself and your consumers updated on all aspects of your trade, and brands/manufacturers are not an exception to this. We have here compiled and organised alphabetically the 15 top most talked-about jargon and acronyms that your business may come across!

Interior design is an important yet (previously) overlooked aspect of our lives. Through media popularisation including TV shows such as ‘60 Minute Makeover’, over the years people have started paying more and more attention to interior design and the aesthetic of their households and/or workplace.

When it comes to handmade products, people have a general view of what benefits they provide. We could say that purchasing handmade products is the new quirky trend.

A quick glance through your Instagram feed/explore page would show you that handmade ‘do-it-yourself’ accessories are the latest wave. The COVID-19 pandemic allowed for our creative boundaries to be broken down as people got busy at home with their tools and sewing machines and it seems bigger corporations have followed suit.

As we approach the end of the year and head into the colder months, pet owners will start to spend more time inside with their pets. But what pet accessories can you consider stocking up on for the coming winter months? Here are a few top sustainable and handmade pet products for you to consider:

The manufacturing sector has a rich history of innovating to overcome persistent challenges. But the twin disruptions of the net-zero transition and the Covid-19 pandemic have made the sector's green efforts paramount to business prosperity. Accounting for more than 60% of direct industrial emissions in the UK, manufacturing is an energy-intensive industry that has been striving for decades to improve energy productivity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. From 1990 to 2018, emissions from manufacturing decreased by 56.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, and the next decade was shaping up to be a critical period of transformation that would put the sector on the path to net-zero emissions by 2050. The coronavirus pandemic has proved an untimely and disastrous occurrence. In a period of time where manufacturers were ready to embrace innovation that could radically cut, store and even reuse carbon, short-term attention and financial plans have rightly turned to the tumultuous impact of the pandemic. Report forecasts suggest that UK manufacturers won’t reach their predicted levels of growth pre-pandemic until 2022. A predicted loss of Gross Value Added (GVA) – which represents the monetary value of UK manufactured products – also looks set to drop by more than £35bn.