Where Do We Stand on Circular Economy?
Waste360 recently sat down with two industry veterans who will speak during a WasteExpo session on the circular economy.
Source: www.waste360.com
Waste360 recently sat down with two industry veterans who will speak during a WasteExpo session on the circular economy.
Source: www.waste360.com
Digitalization is part of the Spanish automotive suppliers’ DNA. The sector invests every year more than 4% of the billing (€1,458 million in 2019) in R&D&I. It places Spain as a country of reference worldwide. COVID-19 pandemic just accelerated the digital transformation process, already led by Spanish companies.
While welcoming the UK’s Net Zero pledge, the sustainability authority, Bureau Veritas has asserted that a transition to the circular economy business model will be a key initiative if the UK is to……
Sea-level rise is not a major threat in South Africa but, tied with other climate crisis consequences, it can become one. Here’s how higher sea levels could affect the country’s coastal cities. With the world heating up, countries are expected to make ambitious efforts to keep global temperature rise below 1.50C at the upcoming COP26 negotiations. Africa, one of the most vulnerable regions to the climate crisis, is likely to get hotter at twice the global rate, with sea-level rise a consequence. For a long time, global warming was almost solely a phenomenon associated with melting glaciers. Alongside this notion were images of polar bears stranded on cracked-off pieces of ice — and land expected to almost disappear as it was swallowed by sea-level rise.
Every year, we buy 30 billion tonnes of stuff, from pizza boxes to family homes. We throw out or demolish 13 billion tonnes of it as waste—about 2 tonnes per person. A third of what we discard was bought the same year.
Dangote Cement yesterday emerged the first quoted company in the Nigeria Stock Exchange to make a formal presentation of its sustainability report to market stakeholders.
Behold, a fresh new hell of environmental dilemmas.