At the Big Sustainability Expo in Southampton today in Southampton as part of myprintpod . Great little company Notpla who are using seaweed based alginates in food packaging. Good for the planet and good for you as it’s more biocompatible. Thanks for chat from Ella O'Toole - category owner.

Just at Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) listening to the new president - Dawn Ohlson CEng FIET. This is her inaugural address. She currently conscripting us all to help “build a better world” and she may very well succeed. Very impressive person and we are lucky.

Invited to the Liberal Democrats conference TechUK and Digital Lib Dems round table on how to help businesses with their digital adoption journey. Hot take - theirs - #AI adoption vital and complex, - mine #sustainability must not be forgotten - growing fast and benefits believable!

We are at the Clean Maritime Day 2025 in London at the Methodist Central Hall across from Westminster Abbey. This is an #InnovateUk and #DepartmentofTransport event to bring all the thinkers together on how to #decarbonise the UK maritime industry. This is around 5% of transports carbon emissions.

Attending the MarRI-UK National Roadmap meeting in London at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre. This is about maritime sector’s research and development roadmap. As part of my work at myprintpod.com I am interested in how the whole sector can become more #sustainable. We shall see.

Very glad have to have taken the 5hr drive last week to Cornwall to meet with Ian Falconer of 0rCA®. They gather gill nets from fishing fleets, to make nylon 3d printing filament. Very low co2 emissions… very strong! #sustainability #3dprinting #circulareconomy

Mike's cheapskate! Designed a new fishtank lid for his son's birthday.. 30 mins for the #Fusion360 work and 7 hours to #3dprint using #recycled PetG. Came out well I think. He likes it... Makes a nice change from industrial components. myprintpod.com.

#3dprinting #sustainability #recycling #fish

Too fast! Much much too fast! This is what happens when you try to #3dprint a part too quickly. This is Portcuthno Nylon 6 from Fishyfilaments in Cornwall - made from recycled fishing nets. The bending clearly shows the secret stresses that build up inside a part as the nylon recrystallises...

Meeting at Southsea Village at the latest #PeoplePlanetPint meeting - talking to my #sustainability friends and latest trends… you should join us…

People Planet Pint sessions (free sustainability club) sponsored by Small99 is tonight. Join us at SouthSea Village at 6PM in Portsmouth. Have an environmental game to play with all. The eventBrite for the event is given below...

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#sustainability #netzero #peopleplanetpint

UK Green economy grew by 10% last year and is now bigger than agriculture, advertising and many other sectors. The current GDV contribution is 1.1%. last years growth was 9% - so it will be interesting to see whether its 11-12% in 2025.

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#3dprinting #recycling #netzero #manufacturing

Update on the Sustainability Workshop in Southampton UK on the 14th march 2025. The details for the free event are below:

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We are helping to organise a conference on #sustainability for SMEs and Micro SMEs on the 14th May 2025 at Barclays Eagle Labs Southampton. This will provide small businesses with the tools on how to save money by embracing #sustainability. Contact for details..

Two to three billion vehicle tyres are produced every single year. That’s a phenomenal amount of raw material used to create something with a short lifetime. But there’s an effort to make them more sustainable.

UK manufacturing accounts for £518bn; 23% of GDP; 7.3m jobs. £1m of manufacturing activity has £1.8m multiplier effect.

Finance industry contributed £208.2bn; 8.8% of GDP; 1.17m jobs; speculation has zero multiplier effect.

But Govt wants bigger finance industry
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