Your Old Electronics Are Not “Garbage” | San Jose E-Waste

USD Students, San Diego community members, and supply chain professionals are invited to join educators and industry professionals from diverse organizations at the 11th annual Supply Chain Management Institute’s Spring Symposium. This year, the one-day virtual conference will focus on sustainability and its relationship to the triple bottom line including common financial, social and environmental issues in supply chain management as well as tools, processes and metrics that can be used to address the needs of ‘people, planet and profits.’  Sustainability is a rapidly evolving issue that supply chain professionals are facing in organizations of all sectors. Global challenges within increasingly extended supply chains mean that it is now impossible for an organization to ignore regulatory, economic, environmental and reputational pressures to address the sustainability agenda of ‘people, planet and profits.’

Tanzania’s wealth per capita has declined because its rapid population growth has outpaced investment. This decline in wealth is almost entirely accounted for by its “renewable natural capital” loss, consisting of the country’s agricultural land, cropland, forests, forest products, and protected areas. The country’s human capital per capita is stable while its physical capital per capita has risen by 13 percent. Yet its degrading natural capital base clearly illustrates the magnitude of its sustainability problem

As Australia seeks to reduce emissions, and as international tensions highlight the country’s reliance on volatile trade relationships, experts say the mining sector has a pivotal role to play in securing a self-sufficient, greener nation.  Australia holds the third largest amount of vanadium in the world, yet doesn’t produce any.  International tensions, a focus of renewable energy, and overpopulation are factors driving up demand.  Australia has an “enormous” opportunity to supply the world with the “new-economy mineral”.  It is vanadium mining that has got industry experts excited.