How your enterprise can help reduce e-waste
Apple is quadrupling the extent of its iPhone recycling scheme, but what can your business do to help?
Source: www.computerworld.com
Apple is quadrupling the extent of its iPhone recycling scheme, but what can your business do to help?
Source: www.computerworld.com
As society becomes more mindful of the effect it has on the environment and takes steps to lessen this impact, we are beginning to see the business world follow suit. While the majority of organisations have traditionally relied on a linear business model, it has become clear that this way of operating follows a pattern of ‘take-make-waste’.
The US ranks near the top when it comes not only to the amount of e-waste generated overall but also on a per capita basis.
Travel Beyond Plastics is a groundbreaking new Skift series about the travel industry’s addiction to plastics and what happens when companies and travelers try to kick this unsustainable habit. Hoteliers are increasingly aware that their plastic waste contributes to an enormous environmental problem, and there’s an obvious first step to take: Promise to do better. A hotel can simply set its own goals and issue a press release, or it can join some type of larger coalition, commitment, alliance, or pledge that includes other companies.
In an interesting twist on the idea of mobile ecommerce, musicMagpie has created a service where consumers can rent mobile phones from its ecommerce store. The solution, called ‘Powered by DivideBuy’ – and powered by lending technology company of the same name – is the first consumer hire option of its kind offered by the retailer. The solution works alongside all other credit options and in the same way as they would with a standard finance option, customers will be able to check their suitability for a rent prior to making a purchase.
As the pace of change in the world accelerates, consumers are demanding more of the products and services they buy. At the same time, there is an…
Luxurious houses that consolidate eco-accommodating, green arrangements are the most recent pattern in naturally cognizant, extravagance homes nowadays. The period of show houses that parade their vitality utilization and larger than average highlights is a distant memory as more property holders consistently become mindful of their carbon impression. The present purchasers need the solace of extravagance houses yet lean toward highlights that will limit their carbon impression and make their vitality utilize more affordable and more supportable. It’s an arrival to an autonomous soul that mirrors the significance of safeguarding our characteristic assets without settling on the nature of our living spaces.