Field Notes: Sustainability in Tech and Textiles
Editor’s note: WWD Field Notes is a column featuring the latest technology, B2B and business solution news.
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Editor’s note: WWD Field Notes is a column featuring the latest technology, B2B and business solution news.
Source: wwd.com
A rising number of companies have pledged to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.It was always going to be difficult for companies to meet ambitious carbon…
In the 1920s, a group of the largest lightbulb companies from around the world came together and made a plan to sell more lightbulbs: make them worse. The group, called the Phoebus Cartel, decided that their bulbs would last 1,000 hours, much lower than the 2,500 hours the bulbs had lasted before. Customers would then have to buy more bulbs. It was a foolproof plan, except for being unethical and shortsighted. The Phoebus Cartel shows the problems with a traditional linear economy that a circular economy solves. In a circular economy, the point is to look past sheer profit or growth and consider a sustainable future with wider social benefits.
Pollard Group has created a Sustainability Checklist to help customers maximise the sustainability benefits of their packaging.
Of all the epidemics that plague us in modern living, the plague of single-use plastics seems to be the most pervasive.
Paris Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2019 had alot to say about sustianability, empowerment, and diversity.Here is everything you should know…
What started as a 10-year-old child’s persistence has become a career for Elisabeth Pesavento ’21. “I told my mom that I really wanted to play the horn,” Pesavento said. “And you know, like all mothers, she’s said, ‘Oh that’s nice. It’s a very beautiful instrument.’ But I just kept asking and kept asking until finally she was like, ‘Wow, I guess she really does want to play the horn.’” After Pesavento finally got her French horn, she traveled the world with the instrument.