Does Your Website Trigger Liability in California?

ByThe Circular Economy Team December 16, 2020May 18, 2021

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Now may be the time to audit your website to ensure that it is accessible to blind or visually impaired visitors. A recent case in California, coupled with ADA requirements, makes it easier for unwitting businesses with an online presence to be dragged into a California state court even if they have no California offices or employees. Companies could face significant monetary damages, not to mention serious damages to their reputation and loss of customers. In Thurston v. Fairfield Collectibles of Georgia, LLC, the plaintiff, a blind California resident, sued a Georgia company for failing to provide her full and equal access to the company website in violation of California disability discrimination law.

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Sports, Sustainability and Science: A Win-Win-Win for the Triple Bottom Line

ByThe Circular Economy Team July 16, 2020

It’s widely recognized how sports benefit individual players – building discipline, confidence, fitness and leadership skills. What’s less recognized is the positive influence that sporting events can have on a community, especially when it comes to promoting a more sustainable future. From encouraging smarter waste management to building inclusion, sporting events have the reach to influence hundreds of thousands of people and be an important enabler of sustainable development.

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Roadmap to Renewables Unites Climate and Sustainability Goals

ByThe Circular Economy Team December 18, 2020May 18, 2021

While the pressures of climate change bring a sense of urgency to renewable energy development, a new study serves as a roadmap toward uniting the goals of a low-carbon future with that of ecological sustainability and conservation. The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Sustainability from the University of California, Davis, and John Hopkins University, aims to help decision-makers avoid the unintended environmental consequences of renewable energy development.
The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Sustainability from the University of California, Davis, and John Hopkins University, aims to help decision-makers avoid the unintended environmental consequences of renewable energy development.

“Renewables aren’t always sustainable, but they can be if we think proactively,” said co-leading author Sarah Jordaan,

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Recycling prices and market commentary: 19 June 2020

ByThe Circular Economy Team June 19, 2020

Falling PRN/PERN values is the main area of concern for the recycling market this week with many key grades seeing a drop.

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Sustainable scallop farm in the heart of the Great Bear Sea –

ByThe Circular Economy Team February 1, 2020

Henry Clifton spent his whole life on the water, up and down the coast, in every inlet, and his invaluable place-based knowledge is an essential part of Coastal Shellfish’s success.Photo by Emilee Gilpin We keep it clean, there’s enough pollution already The company employs about 40 staff members,…