California has traditionally granted environmental exemptions to large projects like football stadiums, a practice criticized by environmentalists and urbanists alike. SB 288 would change that, with exemptions for sustainable transportation projects.
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The Kroger Co. announced it will phase out single-use plastic bags and transition to reusable bags across its family of stores by 2025.
A group of the UK’s biggest names in children’s magazines, including DC Thomson and Redan Publishing has signed up to become founding members of the education, research, and recycling programme, Recycle to Read, a campaign aimed at creating a more circular economy for children’s toys. This week will see the programme begin sign up for schools for pilot collections in the autumn term, and will be announcing additional partnerships from the book publishing, retail, and toy sectors over the coming weeks. Recycle to Read is a new toy and tech recycling initiative launched by Wastebuster in association with EPPIC and Products of Change with the aim of providing a solution for recycling all plastic toys with ‘take back’ collections housed across retailers, schools and household recycling centres in the UK.
The concept of a circular and green economy was formed in the 70s and 80s of the 20th century. They aim to rethink industrial processes. They are based on the ideas of industrial ecology and industrial metabolism (symbiosis).
As the world rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic, we have a unique opportunity to create a fairer, more resilient, low carbon society, writes BT’s chief digital impact & sustainability officer, Andy Wales…
Last week Sophie and I took the podcast on the road to record at Clerkenwell Design Week. You can, as ever, listen to the full episode here, but the two key aspects that we discovered were the changing design of the workspace and the increasing attention being paid to sustainability.
Getting better insights from the operations will help to reach climate goals. Most of the manufacturing companies have already taken carbon neutrality and sustainable operations as key strategic initiatives. Sustainability will not only become a competitive advantage but a demand from customers in order to engage in business relationships. Data insights and emerging technologies, such as Edge AI, can assist on the path towards carbon neutrality.