The sustainable food packaging to help reduce global warming
Global food packaging leader Tetra Pak joined a media roundtable with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) recently to discuss how food packaging can help address the problem of humans and reduce the global warming.
Food packaging plays a key role in feeding the world but also impacts the earth’s climate and its limited resources.
According to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020, growth in the global population
and increased use of land in the past half-century has been destroying the planet at an alarming rate.
As the world population grows, more food sources – especially animal protein – is consumed, thus exacerbating climate change. Another key factor leading to global warming is urbanisation.
People tend to live in crowded cities for easy access to job opportunities and transportation.
Then there is the problem with consumerism, which has people consuming far more than they actually need, thus causing oversupply and a linear economy, where waste from consumption cannot be recycled.
Yingyong Vityananan, head of WWF Thailand’s said “This is why conservation needs to be addressed urgently if we want to protect the planet for our future generations,”
“If we cut down on the impact our actions have on the environment, global temperatures should not rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius before the end of this decade, but if we continue living and consuming at the current rate, global temperatures will rise by at least 4 degrees,”
‘Burnout’ crisis threatens post-pandemic workplaces, study finds
A recent global survey found that 92 per cent of workers say they are experiencing burnout from stress related to their workplace and the impact Covid-19 is having on their work and their personal lives.
Asolution to improve employees’ well-being, as well as productivity, innovation, retention and inclusion, researchers say, is access to remote work.
For women, who have been disproportionately impacted by job losses during the pandemic, these findings are very important.
The study, “Remote-Work Options can Boost Productivity and Curb Burnout”, surveyed nearly 7,500 employees across the globe and defines burnout as “the physical and psychological exhaustion that comes from prolonged stress with negative consequences, including mental distance from one’s job and feelings of professional inefficacy”. It is the first instalment of Catalyst’s “Equity in the Future of Work” research series.
Catalyst is a global non-profit organisation working with top firms to build better workplaces for women.
In the analysis, author Tara Van Bommel identifies three types of burnout: work burnout, Covid-19 work burnout and personal burnout.
Remote-work access curbed all three types of burnout regardless of group differences such as gender or child-caregiving status.
The data showed that when companies offer remote-work options –
including a flexible work location, distributed teams, and/or virtual work/telework/working from home – employees report a 26 per cent drop in workplace burnout compared to those who do not have access to remote work. Workplace burnout drops 43 per cent when employees have remote-work access and their managers demonstrate empathy, compared to people without remote-work access or empathic managers.
The study also found that people with remote-work access are 30 per cent less likely to look for another job in the next year compared to people who do not have remote-work access. Women with childcare responsibilities are 32 per cent less likely to leave their job when they have remote work access, compared to women with childcare responsibilities who do not have access to remote work.
Unsurprisingly, the report observes current, “always-on” expectations at work are unsustainable, and recommends the following solutions for organisations to help combat burnout:
• Create remote-work policies that detail expectations for employees, managers, and teams.
• Upskill managers on managing remote teams inclusively.
• Invest in schemes and stipends for employees who need additional childcare options.
• Normalise empathic listening through regular check-ins and other opportunities to share life and work experiences.
“Burnout leads to turnover, but that can be mitigated by intentional remote work policies and inclusive, empathic leadership,” said Lorraine Hariton, Catalyst president and CEO. “Effectively implemented, remote and flexible work options for employees ultimately help organisations have access to more talent and less turnover as well as increased innovation and productivity.”
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