The EU’s recently agreed laws to tackle the most polluting single-use plastics are in danger of being watered down by industry players, writes Delphine Lévi Alvarès.
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An environmentally sustainable community, near Hazelmere, 16 kilometres from Perth’s CBD, Bushmead is perfect for those longing for a tree change but still within reach of life’s modern conveniences. Designed with sustainable living in mind, Bushmead comprises a selection of carefully-designed bush front blocks to build the home of your dreams, surrounded by 185 hectares of retained bushland, parks and recreational reserves.
Hunan Valin LY Steel Group Co., Ltd. (“LY Steel”) is an important production base for fine steel products in Central and Southern China, a backbone enterprise of Valin Group – one of China’s top ten steel companies, and a provincially administered super large state-owned enterprise in Hunan. LY Steel was established and put into production in 1958. After 57 years of development, it currently has an annual steel production capacity of 8 million tons, and possesses a production line covering the entire process from coking, sintering, steelmaking to steel rolling. It mainly produces thin hot-rolled and cold-rolled coils featuring high strength, high technology content and high added value. The “Shuangling” brand has been shortlisted as “China’s Top Ten Publicly Recognized Brands”, and recognized as a “China Famous Trademark” by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. This project covered energy plant,steel plant , circulating water system in steel rolling milland of LY Steel, involving a total of 100 high-efficiency water pumps. After transformation, water pumps operated well and the power-saving effect was obvious.
What do consumers want when it comes to animal welfare? How you ask the question matters. Who answers the question also matters,” said Dr. Candace Croney, director, Center for Animal Welfare Science with Purdue University, during her keynote address at the first joint annual meeting of the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Poultry & Eggs (US-RSPE) and the International Poultry Welfare Alliance (IPWA) in Atlanta, Georgia. As part of her presentation on “Community (Multi-Stakeholder) Perceptions and Attitudes about Animal Welfare and Sustainable Agriculture,”
The Sustainable Inclusive Business (SIB) Kenya is calling on government and businesses to embrace circular economy noting that Kenya’s economy cannot thrive in the long run without a deliberate shift to a system that restores and regenerates natural resources. A circular economy is an economic system that eliminates waste by promoting better designs, reuse, take-back schemes and recycling. “Circular economy won’t just happen; it will wait till everyone takes individual and corporate responsibility and it requires intention and design,” said Ms. Karin Boomsma, the Centre’s Project Director.
The idea of the circular economy frequently brings to mind issues of recycling waste and materials and making moderate use of natural resources. But if a new system is to emerge which is sustainable and equitable the whole economic model will have to be re-thought.
The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability is celebrating its 10th anniversary by focusing with renewed urgency on more powerful ways to translate knowledge into action.