From e-waste article in Irish “Green NEWS” February 7th, 2019 e-waste from Ireland and other EU countries is being dumped in developing countries, a new international study has found. The findings were revealed in a new two-year study that …
Source: www.electronic-recycling.ie
IIT Guwahati introduces UN-Sustainable Development Goals 2030 as part of the B.Tech curriculum…
As the pace of change in the world accelerates, consumers are demanding more of the products and services they buy. At the same time, there is an…
A Bill which would require Ministers to fully consider the long-term environmental and social implications of all policy changes was introduced in the House of Commons on Tuesday (24 March), receiving cross-party support.
Her advocacy-focused projects — Slow Factory, The Library and Study Hall — are shaping how we can make the fashion industry, and the world at large, a better place.
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.
H&M’s drive to encourage the “reuse, remaking and recycling of unwanted garments” in the fashion world now features actress Maisie Williams, well-known for her role in Game of Thrones, as the company’s “global sustainability ambassador.” The company, striving toward a goal of only using recycled or other sustainably sourced materials by 2030, says Williams will help drive change in fashion.