Our newsbrands campaign for environmental change and inspire our readers to be greener, recycle more and reduce waste. We know that 82 per cent of Sun readers are keen to make their lives greener, so it launched its Green Team to encourage readers to reduce waste, meat consumption and plastic use, as well as recycling, reusing and repairing more.

Meanwhile, The Times’ Clean Air for All campaign has a set of bold targets designed to help save lives and reduce new cases of lung and heart disease. All Times environmental content can be read on our Times Earth feed.

In summer 2021 we completed our plastics pledge to remove all 800 tonnes of single-use plastics from our products, replacing inner and outer polybagging with compostable alternatives. We introduced innovative new sustainable paper bands, offering up commercial space on the sustainable paper bands, in another industry first. The process started in October 2019 as The Sun TV Mag removed its inner plastic polybagging across the UK and Irish editions, removing 350 tonnes of single-use plastic per year from the Saturday issue. Meanwhile The Sun on Sunday phased out single-use plastic by the end of December 2019, replaced by compostable film. The move followed The Times and The Sunday Times removing all single-use plastic outer polybagging in June.

Our News UK, News Scotland and News Ireland Sustainability Networks contribute to the wider work being done across News Corp to drive sustainability at a local level, encourage participation and promote sustainable outcomes. The Network’s work is helping us to achieve our UK & Ireland targets of reaching recycling rates of over 90% at all sites, 1% reduction in energy use across all sites, as well as minimising our resource use and creation of waste.