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Food waste reshapes corporate sustainability
Listen to Maria Outters, Group SVP, Corporate Social Responsibility at Sodexo, talk about global trends in food waste and the steps corporate leaders are taking to reduce food waste in business settings.
Wastewater Treatment Facility Pursues Organics-To-Energy Vision
In Pennsylvania, the Derry Township Municipal Authority (DTMA) has taken a big step on its journey toward energy and nutrient recovery from organic waste at its Clearwater Road Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF). Ongoing upgrades at the five million-gallons-per-day WWTF are part of a $12 million biosolids facility improvements program. These improvements will expand capacity and increase energy efficiency, boosting the plant’s sustainability. The Derry Township Municipal Authority’s Clearwater Road Wastewater Treatment Facility. (Source: Brown and Caldwell) Already accepting organic waste from industrial and municipal sources, and with plans to receive future additional waste streams, the DTMA has a long-term vision to recover and reuse resources, reduce landfill waste, and generate alternate revenue sources to lessen the financial burden to customers.
Sync NI – opinion – Is the UK ready for the government digital identity rollout?
After many years of paper-based bureaucracy, the agreed process for organisations across all sectors to confirm peoples’ identities has just changed unequivocally. It’s time to go digital. Thanks to newly introduced government legislation, employers and landlords will be able to use certified Identification Document Validation Technology (IDVT) service providers, such as SureCert, to carry out digital identity checks on their behalf. The initial roll-out of this technology for Right to Work, Right to Rent, and Disclose and Barring Service checks forms part of a wider Government initiative that will allow people to quickly prove their identity using digital methods and businesses to then verify that identity easily through a digital tool.
Sustainable Summer Ideas Lab —
Passionate about environmental policy issues? Spend this summer with Whittle School & Studios learning about environmental sustainability and public policy at our Sustainable Summer Ideas Lab (SSIL). Students will study the mechanisms government has to impact the environment and how that relates and sometimes conflicts with a market economy.