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As the dust settles on the generative AI explosion, one reality is becoming clear: not all intelligence is created equal.

The learning landscape is evolving at pace.

It’s Not Just a Reporting Problem. It’s a Business Problem.

In today’s sustainability-first economy, data is your truth - and bad data is a liability.

In the UK, the push towards comprehensive sustainability disclosure has led organisations to grapple with an ever-expanding volume of data requirements. 

As the scope of responsibilities around data collection, recording, validation, and processing widens, UK companies navigate a complex regulatory environment and significant operational challenges. 

Many UK sustainability leaders believe the administrative burdens of carbon reporting are actively delaying their decarbonisation efforts, with many finding that spending on sustainability reporting now significantly overshadows investment in innovation.

There has been a significant rise in the number of disruptive platforms, apps, new products and services emerging in the ESG space in recent years. As sustainability has become more integrated into the corporate landscape, and targets and reporting are enshrined in legislation, ESG technology catering to these changing requirements has fast become an industry in its own right.

I was recently asked to present at the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (formerly BIFM) AGM about the plastic’s ‘crisis’.  A subject that I had written about for World Environment day last year. In the article, I called on organisations to really think about, and investigate what happens to their wastes, rather than implementing a ‘quick fix’ solution that could do more harm than good. 

Where in Scotland does the public sector, private sector, community, investors and third sector come together to build innovative, industry defining ideas? The answer is CivTech®.

A unique accelerator programme run by the Scottish Government that empowers public sector organisations to lay out specific challenges for private sector companies to solve. 

My name is Jack and I’m developing our answer to Challenge 6, set by National Services Scotland, “How can we transform the re-use of products for NHS Scotland?”. It was a pleasure to talk with Derek Mackay MSP (Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Economy & Fair Work) about Scotland's growing circular economy...but I wish I had worn a smarter jumper(!)

Ditto Sustainability has been chosen to transform the re-use of products for NHS Scotland. Reducing waste, providing cost savings, and developing skilled jobs; stimulating the Scottish circular economy.

Dan Botterill, CEO of Ditto Sustainability, explains how Artificial intelligence (AI) can help towards achieving a more circular economy.

The 4th Industrial revolution conjures imagery of all kinds of technology adaptations and evolutions; driverless cars, the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and AI – the last of which underpins many applications in this area. The wide scale adoption of AI massively divides opinion. The inability of machine learning and probabilistic AI technologies to ‘self account’ or ‘explain’ how they have reached their conclusions is a very prominent concern for many, particularly those writing the law...

For those of us who’ve worked in or with the waste industry for a while, it certainly feels like times are changing. A public obsession with single use plastics, rallying cries for better food waste segregation and management, and the emergence of the new agenda in town: the circular economy.

So what does this mean for the oft maligned waste management contractor? How does its role need to adapt and evolve to respond to the progressively more outspoken ethical consumers?