Students lead school sustainability efforts
Warilla High School in New South Wales is on its way to becoming entirely self-sufficient with electricity, thanks to fundraising efforts by students.
Source: www.teachermagazine.com.au
Warilla High School in New South Wales is on its way to becoming entirely self-sufficient with electricity, thanks to fundraising efforts by students.
Source: www.teachermagazine.com.au
Photo Courtesy of Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Across the five boroughs, approximately 36 million pounds of single-use plastic foodware is collected from NYC’s residential waste stream. Tens of millions more pounds are collected from commercial establishments. By Forum Staff Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday signed an executive order that will end the direct City purchase of unnecessary single-use plastics in favor of compostable or recyclable alternatives.
Cleary Gottlieb partner Maurits Dolmans will participate in the GCR Connect event, Sustainability and Cooperation: Greenwashing or Virtue-Signalling? organized by Global Competition Review.
Maurits will moderate the panel, “Test Cases and Guidance or Regulation: Where Do We Go From Here?” The panel will bring together different stakeholders and explore how all—companies, practitioners, and enforcers—can truly contribute to establishing sustainability collaboration.
Coca-Cola India’ says its latest product launch Minute Maid Smoothie hits the buttons for three of its core initiatives: Expanding its Health and Wellness portfolio, boosting its Fruit Circular Economy concept and adhering to two-thirds product localisation.
In their push towards creating a more sustainable business model and circular production cycle, Dell has announced it has already reached its 2020 goal of recycling 2 billion pounds of e-waste…
The World Bank predicts that global annual waste generation will have reached 3.4 billion tonnes by 2050. That’s almost a 75 percent increase on the 2 billion tons we generate today. Building a circular economy will play a crucial role in reducing this forecast. Here, Mats W Lundberg, head of sustainability at global engineering group Sandvik, looks at why circularity needs to be considered from the initial design process; otherwise, it’s already too late. Product lifecycles traditionally follow a linear economy, where materials are transformed into products that are then used and thrown away in a ‘take-make-waste approach. This is unsustainable. The primary principle of a circular economy is keeping assets in use to create a responsible way of using resources while reducing waste. Circularity is crucial in closing the loop of product life cycles.
Comments Consumer goods giant calls on wider industry to accelerate progress towards a circular economy and stem the tide of ocean and waterway plastic pollution Consumer goods giant Unilever has issued a clarion call for the wider industry to step up efforts to tackle the “mounting challenge of ocean plastic waste”, setting out four key actions it claims can help.