Green it up | Two-thirds of employees demand more sustainability from their firms

67% of employees want their workplaces to become more sustainable, new research from businesswaste.co.uk has revealed.

Businesswaste.co.uk, a leading expert in business waste recycling and disposal, polled over 1,500 employees and found that, not only did more than two-thirds demand that their employer became more sustainable, but nearly two-thirds (62%) would be more likely to work for a sustainable company.

The poll comes against a backdrop of rising controversy about the Government’s Net Zero plans to reduce the UK’s carbon emissions to zero by 2050. Although some right-wing politicians and polemicists including Steve Baker and Nigel Farage are strongly opposed to the plans, and claim to have support among the public, this poll suggests otherwise. In the corporate world, it seems that the concern is that businesses aren’t doing enough to support the green agenda and Net Zero target.

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Indeed, 84% of those surveyed say the companies they work for aren’t doing enough to address climate change. Although many big name brands are keen to trumpet their sustainable credentials and climate activism, often they don’t say how they’re going to achieve their environmental goals. For example, the New York Times reports that Netflix has not provided emissions reduction targets despite saying it intends to reduce its impact on climate change. Google has cut emissions, but it’s finding the technology isn’t yet sufficiently developed for it to meet its “moonshot goal” of powering itself completely with carbon-free electricity 24-hours a day, seven days a week, all year round by 2030.