Bridget Foley’s Diary Views on Sustainability: Halide Alagöz
Ralph Lauren’s evp, chief supply chain and sustainability officer talks about building a corporate framework on stewardship and impact.
Source: wwd.com
Ralph Lauren’s evp, chief supply chain and sustainability officer talks about building a corporate framework on stewardship and impact.
Source: wwd.com
The accumulation of vast quantities of plastic and other polymeric waste poses a significant environmental risk, both on land and in the oceans. We also lose material that might have significant end-of-life value if recycling and other reprocessing technologies were more cost-effective. The industry has an opportunity to improve the energy and material efficiency of processes that would help recycle, upcycle and deconstruct polymers on scales that are not possible today. It also has the chance to design and manufacture polymers with recycling in mind: enabling, in other words, a more circular economy.
HP now stands out as a segment leader in sustainability – particularly with their printers. And SIMS Metal Management is helping give HP leverage that no single company could otherwise hope to accomplish.
Volvo CE is investing 16 MSEK at its Eskilstuna, Sweden, site, including an arena for electric and autonomous machines.
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IN the US alone, one estimate suggests 500 million straws are used every day, according to National Geographic. One study, published earlier this year, estimated as many as 8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the world’s beaches.
Following over two years of discussion, the European institutions have agreed, in principle, on a reform of EU waste rules. The Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (APEAL) has welcomed the announcement of a balanced Circular Economy Package, following the progress made during the last Trilogue discussions yesterday.