The grass is greener: The benefits of sustainability for SMEs
Many start-ups and SMEs operate within the misapprehension that green practices are reserved for big corporates – and it’s costing them.
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Many start-ups and SMEs operate within the misapprehension that green practices are reserved for big corporates – and it’s costing them.
Source: www.bmmagazine.co.uk
Building the foundation for a circular economy involves reworking a multitude of systems, including existing large organizations, but it also requires supporting the earliest-stage innovations to get off the ground. To that end, a GreenBiz tradition that began in 2012 at its VERGE events, the Accelerate competition, was extended into the circularity space as part of the Circularity 19 plenary. In Accelerate, a select group of startups delivers a 2.5-minute pitch to the plenary and online audiences — so far at VERGE, the program has involved more than 150 startups.
Allows feeding of downstream processes at ultra-high rates.
With an unmanageable surplus of clothing garments being produced each year, estimates show the value of unused clothing to be around 30 billion pounds, not including the 140 million pounds worth of clothes that end up in landfill. According to Impossible, a group aiming to guide global issues like sustainability, the zest for shopping will continue to rise, fuelled by our obsession for newness and fast fashion.
How do you transform global challenges into opportunities and foster a more sustainable tomorrow? It takes collaboration, innovation and the belief that science-based solutions can make an impact.
The forum taught attendees about USC’s law-mandated sustainability policies.
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