Many companies need to keep perishable items cold in transit. Some use couriers and worry about a few hours spent baking on a doorstep and others need to keep tissue samples stable while traveling internationally. We help customers achieve their thermal goals while keeping cost and material waste to a minimum.
Source: thermalshipping.com
The circular economy aims to eliminate waste by creating businesses built upon reducing, recycling and reusing as opposed to endless consumption. Here are four entrepreneurs leading the charge with their environmental startups.
The Relevance of Circular Economy Practices to the Sustainable Development Goals Patrick Schroeder ,1 Kartika Anggraeni,2 a……
Why would a digitally native fashion company that has seen tremendous growth (and raised over €100M in funding) in its first 10 years of web-based selling, go offline?
International and sustainability support from Altair At Altair International, we also advise on interventions to increase the provision of affordable housing in developing countries. This includes the funding, investment, regulation, governance, policy and delivery of affordable housing initiatives. Click here to view the full service and find out more…
Two of the Foundation’s Strategic Partners, Groupe Renault and Solvay, have joined forces to create a circular economy for electric vehicle batteries. They have created a consortium with Foundation Partner Veolia to collaborate across the battery value chain — collecting end-of-life batteries, then recovering and purifying the metals to be reused in new batteries. The circular economy represents systemic change and requires collaboration between all actors — in order to achieve this, the Foundation’s Network brings organisations together to mobilise systems solutions at scale. Each organisation has a key role to play in the collaboration — Renault brings its experience in extending the life-cycle of EV batteries, through repair and recycling schemes, and Solvay brings its expertise in the chemical extraction of battery metals.
In the last few years, the conversation about fast fashion seems to get more and more relevant. It has come to the public attention that frequently going to the mall and buying new clothes each week isn’t something to flex, but something to be ashamed of.