The Circular Economy and the SDGs – 2019
The Relevance of Circular Economy Practices to the Sustainable Development Goals Patrick Schroeder ,1 Kartika Anggraeni,2 a……
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The Relevance of Circular Economy Practices to the Sustainable Development Goals Patrick Schroeder ,1 Kartika Anggraeni,2 a……
Source: www.slideshare.net
Rumpl, a Portland-based manufacturer of high-tech blankets, is using discarded plastic bottles to make polyester thread…
CO2 tracker and supply chain traceability provider Circulor announced Thursday that it closed $14 million in Series A funding, according to a release from the firm. The most recent funding round is intended to expand Circulor’s presence in North America and Asia. This funding round was led by The Westly Group, a California-based venture firm focusing on sustainability-minded startups. The venture firm’s founder Steve Westly is also joining Circulor’s board, according to the release.
Dangote Cement yesterday emerged the first quoted company in the Nigeria Stock Exchange to make a formal presentation of its sustainability report to market stakeholders.
Prada Group has signed what is billed as the first business loan in the luxury goods sector linking the annual interest rate to practices that help the environment. Prada said Tuesday that the five-year, 50 million-euro ($55-million) loan with Credit Agricole Group will see interest rates lowered based on “achievement of ambitious targets related to sustainability.”
In the middle of the Sahara desert on the western border of Algeria, refugee camps hosting tens of thousands of people rely completely on humanitarian aid: Water, food, and other basic supplies come in on trucks. Trash, on the other hand, doesn’t really leave; until recently, all the waste from the camps was dumped nearby in the desert into an ever-growing pile of plastic. But at a new recycling center at one of the camps, refugees are now turning that plastic trash into furniture and other products that they can use. Precious Plastic, an organization with a DIY recycling system developed by a Dutch designer who wanted to make recycling more accessible, helped set up the center after the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, put out a call for solutions to help with the waste challenge at the camps.
It is always difficult to encapsulate a 12-month period, let alone the 365 turbocharged 24-hour news cycles that seem to have become the new normal. So much happens in the course of a year — from governments, companies, activists and many others — that it all becomes a blur. That certainly is true in the world of sustainability. From the launch of Loop, the circular economy wunderkind, in January to the colossal failure of COP25 in December, from the burning Arctic and Amazon to the dizzyingly weird weather, it’s another year of ups and downs, reasons for both optimism and despair.