Sustainability Director Asheen Phansey ·
Adjunct professor and corporate professional Asheen Phansey MBA’08 joins Babson as new sustainability director.
Source: entrepreneurship.babson.edu
Adjunct professor and corporate professional Asheen Phansey MBA’08 joins Babson as new sustainability director.
Source: entrepreneurship.babson.edu
One of Canada’s largest producers of plastics says there will be plenty of room for future growth in output despite a proposal by Ottawa to ban certain single-use plastic products by 2021.
I was born in the year 2000. Thus, for my entire life, human-caused climate change has been an ever-present, intensifying threat. Throughout my early education, I learned that we all just needed to “do our part” to combat climate change. “Do your part” lessons always culminated in the sentiment that you too could save the cute polar bears by following the motto “reduce, reuse, recycle,” and these were words I took to heart. As an introduction to sustainable practices, this formula isn’t entirely false, but as a greater climate crisis looms on the horizon, we need to rethink our blind faith in this three-step model, particularly recycling. The current practice of recycling (and the industry at large) reflects the flaws of contemporary climate strategy. Assessing the failures of the recycling process can guide us in the direction of a truly sustainable future.
Sir, – As part of any plan to abolish the use of single-use plastic bottles, the Government should require airports to provide prominent drinking water points where travellers can fill their own multi-use bottles. It could be done this week. – Yours, etc, VINCENT MURPHY, Cork.
Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG aims to create packaging solutions from renewable raw materials that are in harmony with both humans and nature and are recyclable. With a view to achieving this goal, the company, employing almost 1,700 staff and boasting a brand awareness of 99% in Germany, actively monitors changes in consumer behaviour, changes which have grown exponentially in recent months.
A quartet of major online travel brands have joined forces as part of a global partnership to encourage sustainable tourism projects around the world. Booking.com, Skyscanner, Ctrip, and TripAdvisor, alongside payment giant Visa, have come together to form Travalyst in an effort to “mobilize the travel industry as a catalyst for good, aiming to transform the future of travel for everyone.”
At the end of March, Natural Grocers eliminated more than 300 million single-use plastic bags and donated $1 million to food banks.