Andrew Rubin bought FCM Recycling in 2010, converting it from a ferrous and non-ferrous recycler with a speciality in printed circuit boards, to a specialized processor of electronic waste. With headq…
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In 1931, Soviet scientists were on the hunt for a natural source of rubber that would help the USSR become self-sufficient in key materials. They scoured the vast and various territories of the Soviet Union and tested over 1,000 different species looking for an alternative to the South American rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensi. Eventually, on the steppes of Kazakhstan, they found one. By 1941, the Russian dandelion, Taraxacum koksaghyz, supplied 30% of the USSR’s rubber.
ZDNet’s Stephanie Condon tells Karen Roby about Salesforce’s new Sustainability Cloud, as well as ways the tech industry is working to reduce its carbon foot…
Keynote presentation by Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Andreas Bartl University of Technology, Vienna CEC4Europe (Circular Economy Coalition for Europe) is a growing …
The discussions focusing on inequality and climate change, and what needs to be done to achieve the United Nations Global Goals for sustainable development, will be relevant to help refine SITA’s focus on sustainability.
Unscrupulous sellers that are looking to make quick and easy sales are more than happy to get paid higher prices than what their products are actually worth. If the refurbished industry is to be saved, it’s going to need a big makeover – and not just a superficial one.
When we climbed the stair tower to the roof of a local distribution center along with our teaming partner, Coastal Solar, we knew which ingredients were necessary to install this massive 500kW solar pv system. Le Creuset, at nearly a century old and known for their superior quality cookware, had asked Coastal Solar to help make their SC warehouse more efficient financially while planting their flag as a leader in environmental stewardship. We combined the talents of our two solar companies and savored the moment when Le Creuset became less reliance on fossil fuel and greatly diminished their carbon footprint.