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Today we've taken a different approach to our News in Brief, and have summed up some of the latest quirky happenings in the business world.
Potential green investors?
It's good to know that Scotland's small eco businesses will receive plenty of backing should potential investors receive an unexpected windfall. A survey by Orange Business Services found that more than a third of people in Scotland would invest in a green business if they had £1 million.
German businesses green, UK firms deceive
Four in ten German workers believe their company is green, compared to 30 per cent in Italy, 28 per cent in Spain and 21 per cent in the UK and US. Harris Interactive, responsible for the online survey, concludes that German businesses are simply better at communicating their green credentials. Apparently, half of the UK respondents to the survey did not trust companies that claimed to be green.
Beat me, trick me
The government's climate change levy is not having a direct impact on curbing business' carbon emissions, concludes the Environmental Audit Committee. It said there was "a clear gap between economic theory and the actions of businesses in the real world", and that taxes alone were not sufficient to change behaviour. Reduction in energy use is largely because the emissions tax raised business awareness of energy efficiency, it explained. The committee concluded that the government needs to offer carrots to encourage businesses and individuals to save power as well as sticks by adding a tax to activities.
Wear and wear again
Here's a novel way to reduce your carbon footprint -- recycle staff uniforms. Japanese IT manufacturer Oki has asked Teijin Fibers to recycle its staff work-wear and restore the fabric to new. Disposed uniforms are reincarnated as polyester fabric through Teijin's "fibre-to-fibre" technology. A third party -- Chikuma -- will then sew the fabric into a fully recycled uniform and provide it back to Oki. Oki estimates that 2,000 uniforms will be recycled over the next year.
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