It is one element of the family owned company's plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from worldwide manufacturing by 48% by 2016 Duck and Mr Muscle has put in place a range of energy and carbon management measures at Europlant – its largest European manufacturing hub The company has installed an 80-metre wind turbine that supplies 50% of the site's annual electricity needs and has built an electric train and track – powered by the wind turbine – to transport goods and raw materials around the site It has also made room for a packaging supplier to operate at the Mijdrecht site so that packaging is made locally and transported to the warehouse via the electric train – reducing supply chain emissions a switch to compressed gas technology for Glade® aerosol products has resulted in a 10 tonne reduction in liquid petroleum gas from the manufacturing process making SC Johnson Europe's largest supplier of aerosol products using this technology At Europlant – which produces air fragrances and pest control products – wind-generated electricity has eliminated 2,100 tonnes of green house gas emissions annually The site has also achieved zero waste to landfill The initiatives support SC Johnson's five-year global sustainability strategy which also includes a goal to source 33% of its energy from renewable sources by 2016 Lynn Beavis is part of the wordworks network The Guardian Sustainable Business Sustainability Case Studies contain articles on all the initiatives that met the criteria for the GSB Awards Sign In Subscribe Now Dialogue and debate are integral to a free society and we welcome and encourage you to share your views on the issues of the day. 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To learn about our commenting policies and how our community-based moderation works, please read our Community Guidelines a Dutch provider of logistics and fulfilment services for online shops and e-commerce activities MINC has 80 staff across its Mijdrecht and Apeldoorn sites adding to the 400 people across six locations that Paragon Netherlands and Belgium employs will complement and strengthen its existing e-commerce fulfilment capabilities in the region and support its ambitious growth strategy The integration of MINC into its portfolio will broaden the group’s fulfilment offering in the Netherlands and Belgium allowing its clients to benefit from greater efficiencies and a larger footprint said: “Paragon’s growth is strong in the Netherlands and Belgium and we are seeing specific opportunities in the fulfilment market in this region “With MINC in our family we will now be able to fulfil our common ambitions and capitalise on these growth opportunities.” added: “We have been working strategically with Paragon for some time and it suits us well Now that we are officially included in the Paragon family we look forward to expanding our reach and working to professionalise and personalise our services.” The terms of the deal were not disclosed.Earlier this year, Paragon Group expanded its digital services offering with the acquisition of London-based digital product development agency Reason Printweek welcomes informed debate, but please read our House Rules before posting Printweek is the premier website for the print industry Lissjudy from Liss Forest Plants heads the UK entries at Plantarium (The Netherlands 22-24 August) Email: hwsupport@haymarket.com Register Subscribe Subscribe Photo: Politie.nlFour people have been arrested in connection with the discovery of a call centre where criminal gangs could make phone calls in an effort to con people out of money and other valuables took place on July 12 but has only just been made public Police found two studios in the space plus scripts that the conmen could use while making their calls The four men arrested all come from the same area and were aged 19 Police suspect the gang has conned at least 45 people but declined to say how much money is involved Nor did they say whether the gang was posing as police officers or were using some other form of scam So far this year police have received over 3,400 reports of people posing as police officers to get their victims to hand over money They have also arrested 167 people in connection with similar cons We could not provide the Dutch News service without the generous support of our readers Your donations allow us to report on issues you tell us matter and provide you with a summary of the most important Dutch news each day Many thanks to everyone who has donated to DutchNews.nl in recent days We could not provide this service without you Please help us making DutchNews.nl a better read by taking part in a short survey When the owners of Dutch marketing firm Loyals told their full-time employees they would get an extra day off every week with no salary cuts While everyone was pleased with the idea of working 32 hours weekly instead of the more traditional definition of “full time,” they could not initially understand how they could possibly finish their tasks at hand But as the end of said month nears everybody at the company in Mijdrecht has embraced the change says company co-founder and co-owner Gillian Robles "We see that people are getting a lot of energy from their extra day off but we do not yet have insight into actual figures," she told NL Times "Studies into four-day work weeks also show these results Loyals were inspired to try this experiment by Perpetual Gardens a New Zealand company which transitioned to 32-hour work weeks with positive results in 2016 She said it took significant planning and an examination of different possibilities over the course of 2019 before her firm was ready to do the same "We announced it to the team around Christmas and we are now working on the test month." The 32-year-old's marketing company specializes in brand management Started in 2016 after several businesses merged together it now has around 100 employees at offices in Mijdrecht and Zoetermeer or 40 hours weekly were all reduced down to a 32-hour week for the February experiment The company has documented the month with a video blog which can be followed on Youtube so that is why we started the vlog: to show them and everybody the positives it brings,” Robles said she said Loyals did not undertake the experiment simply to inspire other businesses to do the same She asserted that organizations need to discover this on their own According to Robles it is only a matter of time before the shorter workweeks become a social norm the way we balance our work life and private life need to change too It is not a matter of if this will happen but when.” The company said it will announce the results of the experiment in early March Robles said she was "98 percent certain" the reduced hours strategy would continue The Irish citizens are wanted in connection with alleged murder/manslaughter and conspiracy to commit murder Neil FetherstonhaughSunday WorldTue 3 Jan 2023 at 11:59Two Irishmen who feature on Interpol’s Most Wanted List have been made subject to “red notices” issued by the international police organisation which are a formal request to law enforcement agencies worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition have been issued for James Staurvik and Conor Vincent D’Monte is wanted by police in the Netherlands over his alleged role in the murder of Dutch man Adam Sawaryn Radowslag The 31-year-old was killed at his home in the town of Mijdrecht on October 7 who was 28 at the time had been using the false identity “Niall James Byrne.” Staurvik became a prime suspect after several witnesses claimed they saw the two men arguing shortly before Mr Radowslag’s death His red notice gives details that he speaks both Irish and English D’Monte (44) who faces one count of first degree murder and three counts of conspiracy to commit murder in Canada had been a fugitive for 11 years until his arrest in Puerto Rico last year had been living for years under the name of Johnny Williams but was known to have used at least four aliases during his time as on the run He was wanted over his alleged role in the 2009 shooting of Kevin LeClair a gangster in the organised criminal mob the Red Scorpions who are based in British Columbia in Canada D’Monte also faces charges of plotting to kill two other gang members we reported how D’Monte is believed to have been the leader of the British Columbia chapter of the criminal organisation ‘United Nations’ (UN) also known as the ‘United Nations Global Union’ (GUNS) Canadian authorities say the ‘The United Nations’ is named for the diverse ethnic origins of its members and includes Canadians of European which uses other names such as ‘Canada United’ or ‘Canadian United’ began operating in the Vancouver area of British Columbia and in recent years had managed to expand throughout the rest of Canada D'Monte who has been described as "of Irish origin" in local newspaper reports fled in 2011 from justice in his home country after facing charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to murder one or more people with firearms including the notorious Bacon brothers and their associates British Columbia are suspected of multiple firearms and drug trafficking charges and have been implicated in a rash of homicides that took place in the Fraser Valley and Greater Vancouver area Canadian authorities allege that D'Monte was involved in the murder of Bacon brother associate a high-ranking member of the Red Scorpions gang who was gunned down outside a shopping mall on February 6 The El Vocero De Puerto Rico newspaper reported that D'Monte (44) was arrested during a traffic stop in Isla Verde by the Violent Offenders Task Force of the US Marshals Service Authorities don’t know exactly when D’Monte arrived in Puerto Rico but they believe he had been using the alias ‘Johnny Williams’ in the island for at least several months The six-foot-one-inch fugitive settled into a rural eastern mountain community near El Yunque rainforest living in a house in front of a street with no name in a working-class neighbourhood It has also been established that while hiding out in Puerto Rico D'Monte collaborated with the non-profit entity Karma Honey Project those who met D’Monte said he never made any efforts to hide He even met with Puerto Rico’s agriculture secretary and a local senator and was invited to the governor’s mansion last month for his role in trying to save honeybees after Hurricane Maria “The guy fooled us all,” said a Puerto Rican businessman who said he met D’Monte in the early days of the pandemic after being added to his WhatsApp group He revealed that D’Monte was known as ‘Johnny Teeth’ because his teeth were so white and straight The businessman described D’Monte as a “tremendous sales guy” who was very jovial “It struck me that he didn’t have Facebook or any of those things because he truly was a great networker,” the businessman said When he was working on the Christmas toy drive D’Monte messaged his WhatsApp group warning they were 500 presents short The former gangster said he that he was “grinding” to get donations as he noted that the prices went up 40 per cent at the toy distributor warehouse “It’s like a Netflix story,” said Antonio Torres chief deputy US Marshal for the district of Puerto Rico D’Monte is currently in a federal prison in Puerto Rico where he is awaiting extradition to bring back to face justice His public defense attorney declined comment but she noted in a court hearing on Thursday that D’Monte because of his Canadian and Irish citizenship had requested that the consulates of those countries be notified Please check your inbox to verify your details Now download the free app for all the latest Sunday World News, Crime, 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