From the South Orange Green Team & Environmental Commission: This past spring, the South Orange Green Team & Environmental Commission was awarded a $2,000 Sustainable Jersey capacity-building grant funded by the PSEG Foundation.
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SmartTags: IoT Product Passport for Circular Economy Based on Printed Sensors and Unique Item-Level Identifiers Nenad Gligoric 1,* , Srdjan Krco 1, Liisa Hakola 2, Kaisa Vehmas 2, Suparna De 3, Klaus Moessner 3, Kristoffer Jansson 4, Ingmar Polenz 5 and Rob Van Kranenburg 6…
If we want to put an end to the huge unequality of living chances in the world, in accordance with principles of justice which support the human rights ideology as envisaged by the Millennium Objectives of the UN, is there then enough ecological basis for such a rearrangement of living chances?
The Sustainable Alpine Tourism Initiative (SATI) is a conference series aimed at progressing knowledge sharing and collaboration on sustainability in alpine tourism. SATI2020 is unique as it convenes senior corporate executives, industry leaders, hotels, resorts, policy makers, and sustainability experts in academia and innovation to share ideas and insights that tackle key sustainability challenges in alpine tourism.
Banned items will include food and beverage containers made of expanded polystyrene and all products made of oxo-degradable plastic.
All single use plastic will be banned at Darwin City Council events and from market stalls on council land from January 1 next year — which could see more than 1,000 disposable coffee cups saved from landfill each market day.
Although criticised by some, energy from waste is seen as a vital component of the UK’s waste management system. Chris Elliott looks at where it fits as we transition to a circular economy.
It’s one of the burning issues in the quest for a circular economy: is incinerating waste a good thing or not?
On one side of the argument, there are those who believe it can be a useful way of making energy, and that it’s preferable to landfilling. It’s also a way of destroying waste that cannot be managed in any other way, because the material involved is dangerous, such as infectious bio-wastes from hospitals, or hazardous wastes from industry.