Why Should Consumers Care About Sustainability?
Until the practice of sustainability becomes mainstream, the cost to the consumer will remain high. Is there cause for optimism?
Source: www.digitalistmag.com
Until the practice of sustainability becomes mainstream, the cost to the consumer will remain high. Is there cause for optimism?
Source: www.digitalistmag.com
Residents will soon be able to drop-off e-waste and hazardous household chemicals at the city’s Environmental Services facility in the Strip District.
The Limburg Energy Fund (“LEF”), a regional investment fund established by the Province of Limburg, is the first of its kind to join Circle Economy’s membership community. LEF has a mandate to support sustainability in or for Limburg.
From geothermal and solar energy to a system for rainwater harvesting this gorgeous home oozes sustainable design. Take a look around and learn more.
With employment participation rates for people with disability some of the lowest in the country and e-waste one of the fastest-growing types of waste, Enable Australia is finding a way to tackle both problems head-on, writes Maggie Coggan in this month’s Spotlight on Social Enterprise. …
The Jokey Group calls upon producers and consumers to prefer packaging made of recycled material. The aim of Jokey’s initiative “grey” is to strongly promote recycling and the reduction of environmental pollution and packaging waste.
If ever there was a marker of modern-day middle-class excess, it has to be a pillowy bag of lettuce leaves gone mushy before they can be eaten. Most days, for the past six years, Hanneke van Linge, who is now managing director of the non-profit Nosh Food Rescue, spends her mornings recovering food from the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market in City Deep and a small network of supermarkets in the city. She’s after food that is safe to eat but no longer fresh enough to entice consumers. “We have been conditioned to expect crisp at all costs and we need to start confronting why we think of food surplus as food waste or that some foods are for poor people and some food is for rich people,” she says.