Ensuring Sustainability in Food and Agriculture
Find out how you can help the environment by adopting these simple eating habits.
Source: interestingengineering.com
Find out how you can help the environment by adopting these simple eating habits.
Source: interestingengineering.com
This month’s highlights include our new report with public sector caterers, which shows a shift to climate and nature friendly menus, with 80% committed to reducing meat. Our Executive Director, Simon Billing, was interviewed on Times Radio to discuss why public sector catering must take the lead on eating better.
Environmental sustainability has become a hot topic of late and with good reason, as industry and society work towards reducing their environmental impact.
Scientists have developed a hardened wood material that, when sharpened, is three times sharper than a stainless steel dinner knife, according to the new study on the work. The research comes from the University of Maryland’s Teng Li and a team that developed a new method to generate extremely hard wood. Among other things, the development may lead to more sustainable building materials. Wood contains between 40- and 50-percent cellulose, with the rest of the material compromised of binders called lignin and hemicellulose. While cellulose has a greater strength-to-density ratio than materials like metal and ceramic, the binder materials make wood overall weaker than man-made counterparts.
The second full day of WasteExpo came with plenty of insights and highlights.
Read the report on the circular conference organized by the Veolia Foundation.
At the first Vital Topics event of 2022, From Sustainability to Sustainable Performance, we will be joined by Stuart McLachlan, co-founder and CEO of Anthesis Group, and Jonatan Pinkse, Professor of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship at and Executive Director of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Alliance Manchester Business School.