A husband and wife duo became business partners when they opened a farm in the Palouse region to bolster the husband’s graduate school education. Hands and Hearts Farm is a small farm located in Moscow that is owned by Ames Fowler and Delaney Piper.
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As the popularity of electric vehicles starts to grow explosively, so does the pile of used batteries. Only about half of them are currently recycled. New EU regulation could boost investment in the nascent industry.
Household batteries have changed in their makeup, making recycling increasingly complex
In the yard of the Redux recycling company in Bremerhaven, Germany, a truck is slowly backing into a slot at a cargo ramp. A forklift driver is waiting to unload its cargo of grey barrels, each one of them marked with a green banderole. As he shows the driver where to store the barrels, production manager Alexander Schwarz explains that the green package band signifies “household batteries.”
Redux is a recycling specialist for these types of batteries. The plant in Bremerhaven has a capacity of processing about 10,000 tons of them every year and is run by Chief Executive Martin Reichstein and Managing Director Detlef Schmeer.
The biggest names in tech are making efforts to effectively deal with the problem of e-waste.
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When Lorien Carsey started working on a farm as a part-time job, she was skeptical if she would even enjoy it. Some people are drawn to farming work and turns out Carsey is one of those people. “I started in 1999, and I fell in love with the work but took a break to go…
The Korean unit of the American food brand will also step up efforts to generate less waste and save water and energy to protect the environment. In line with this, the company will by 2025 have its all products wrapped with materials that can be recycled or converted into fertilizers.
All business models involve suppliers and customers. A linear business model focuses exclusively on these two sets of stakeholders. With this framework in mind, neither the origin of supplied materials nor the post-consumption waste of said materials is regarded. Thus, the nature of the linear business model is purely transactional. It does not aim to create value for stakeholders and businesses further down the value chain (i.e. recyclers, repair shops, collectors), nor does it consider the impact on the natural environment.