We release today a Policy Briefing which analyses in depth the new Landfill Directive. Specifically the 10 landfill target which could contradict the overarching principles of the EU Circular Economy Agenda.
Source: zerowasteeurope.eu
Working around building occupants in institutional and commercial facilities is a challenging aspect of project management for maintenance and engineering managers. A global pandemic is not the ideal strategy for managers addressing that challenge. But when colleges and universities switched to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, it gave managers an unexpected though hardly welcomed opportunity to address projects. The pandemic sent home more than 30,000 students and hundreds of faculty members at Sacramento State University in California. The empty campus the exodus created gave the university’s maintenance team a chance to take on a tough project more easily – a lighting retrofit inside one of the university’s most vital buildings.
Jason Momoa has become quite the environmentalist. Raising money for cleaning up the coastline, giving speeches at the United Nations… He’s done a lot.But he…
A Weekly Apparel Industry CSR News Review. This is a weekly collection of industry news stories from around the web. This round-up primarily includes apparel stories and reports relating to labor and sustainability issues. I welcome your feedback in order to improve future editions. It generally goes out early Monday morning in order to prepare CSR practitioners for the upcoming week. I hope that you find it useful or interesting.
Sand is a critical ingredient for many of the materials that we take for granted: concrete, glass and asphalt. Sand and coarse aggregates form the backbone of the modern world and also, through land reclamation, the ground on which we live.
Nancy Bush and Caitlin Dinh grew up a continent apart but with a common interest: chemistry. Though they took divergent roads to arrive at USC and only met for the first time this fall, they quickly developed a highly effective working relationship in the lab of Megan Fieser, Gabilan Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Together, they’ve been researching a method for making PVC recyclable—and their efforts have been so successful that they won first place in this year’s Wrigley Sustainability Prize, awarded by the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies.
What’s dubbed the linear economy can be seen throughout our world: from appliances that can’t be fixed, to plastic packaging that can’t be recycled, but there is another philosophy we could adopt…