Are customers willing to pay more for sustainable packaging?
Are customers willing to pay more for sustainable packaging?- Financial Times – Paid Post by Smurfit Kappa…
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Are customers willing to pay more for sustainable packaging?- Financial Times – Paid Post by Smurfit Kappa…
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ADB signed a $100 million loan with Shanghai SUS Environment Company Limited to finance a portfolio of innovative and socially inclusive waste-to-energy facilities.
During an Erasmus philosophy course in Barcelona, I came across the philosophy of animal rights activist Peter Singer and realised that there was a huge ethical problem – around slaughtering animals for food- about which little was being done. This insight stayed with me for years. After leaving McKinsey I planned to take a year off, but I quickly met Daan Luining and Mark Kotter. Daan had a great idea, Mark had a distinctive technology and I had the commercial insight to do something with the ethical problem. Together we founded Meatable. Industrial meat farming is unsustainable.
“I dislike the word waste,” says Simone Post. “We should regard every material, and that includes waste, as a new source of material.” The Dutch expert demonstrated what she meant with her graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven: She developed an upcycling concept for offcuts of material that she then fashions into circular rugs. The leftovers and rejects come from the production lines at textile manufacturer Vlisco, a company known for its highly colorful and extravagantly patterned fabrics made using a complex wax technique. “The big difference between upcycling and recycling is that with upcycling as part of the circular economy the material is imbued with greater value,” says the designer. By contrast, recycling might mean that a fabric involving a complex manufacturing process is later only used to make insulating boards.
As a part of my series about “Big Ideas That Might Change The World In The Next Few Years” I had the pleasure of interviewing Mike Newman. Mike is the CEO of Returnity Innovations, the pioneer in the elimination of single use shipping packaging.
Sweden has announced that they are removing themselves from the show circuit and pulling the planned Stockholm fashion week at the end of August, citing issues of sustainability.
DUBAI: As the cities of today grow into those of the future, they will encounter daunting sustainability challenges. Arguably, the most significant factor that all urban centers will have to take into account is climate change.