THE INFONOMIST: Apple can be greener and save the planet
Nothing is really new from recently launched Apple products this week, except for one major step towards sustainability… writes Wesley Diphoko.
Source: www.iol.co.za
Nothing is really new from recently launched Apple products this week, except for one major step towards sustainability… writes Wesley Diphoko.
Source: www.iol.co.za
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has today (16 October) underlined its commitment to phasing out single-use plastics and reducing its estate emissions by 66% through two new commitments that have been posted on edie’s Mission Possible Pledge Wall.
With sustainable fashion at the forefront of everybody’s minds right now, much of the conversation has been firmly focused on the production processes that go into making our favourite high street pieces.
From material usage to manufacturing processes, the dyes used to colour fabrics to the human labour used to sew, package and transport our fashion, the environmental and ethical impacts of the fashion industry are rightly inspiring us to find fairer, greener ways of shopping.
Herman Daly summarizes an overlooked aspect of economic growth—the inevitable one-way throughput of matter and energy—and identifies problems with “circular economy” notions.
For some, their commitment to sustainability is so strong that they’ve have literally made it their business….
A plastics circular economy is to be developed in Vietnam by three major companies and the country’s government the country has revealed.
If you were to create a pile of all the LPs, cassettes and CDs you ever owned how big would it be? Where are they all now? Did you throw them out? Recycle them?The impact of technology on the environment is massive – both positive and negative.