Een nieuw jaar, een nieuwe ronde. Fonk presenteert de eerste genomineerde voor Coolest Dutch Brands 2020: Verstegen Spices & Sauces. Marianne van Keep, Directeur Duurzaamheid en Inkoop en Retail Marketing Manager Saskia van Wijk zijn allebei heel trots op ‘hun’ bedrijf. ‘We bestaan sinds 1886, onze directeur Michel Driessen is vierde generatie’, vertelt Marianne. ‘Dat is bepalend […]
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Today Acre, Carnstone and Flag, launched ‘The CR and Sustainability Salary Survey 2020’. The growing areas of corporate responsibility and sustainability have always been difficult to define, and the survey’s purpose is to provide a clearer view of how corporate responsibility and sustainability professionals fit into the modern business landscape. The Dutch CSR Portal (Online […]
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Amid the recent coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic, Earth Day Network, the global organizer of Earth Day, will mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with the first Digital Earth Day, a global digital mobilization on April 22 to address the most urgent threats to people and the planet. “At Earth Day Network, the health and […]
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The LIVEKINDLY co. is leading a movement to build a sustainable future, yesterday, fueled by a $200-million founders’ funding round led by founders, entrepreneurs, and global leaders. Establishing a collective of heritage and start-up brands, the company is on track to become one of the world’s largest plant-based food companies. Kees Kruythoff (formerly Unilever) is […]
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Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, and UPM Biofuels, a leading producer of sustainable raw materials, today announced a partnership that will help to reduce the environmental footprint of Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber. The collaboration will see Dyneema® transition to […]
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Husqvarna Group begins the next phase in sustainability after five years of successfully integrating sustainability deeper into their business through the framework called Sustainovate. With Sustainovate 2025, we have a clear aspiration to lead our industry in the transformation to a resource-smart economy. ”We have made significant progress, especially in reducing our absolute CO2 emissions, achieving […]
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Today, the Fibersort consortium presents the market ready Fibersort machine to the industry; a cutting edge automated sorting technology that revolutionises textile to textile recycling of post-consumer textiles. The mountain of used textiles keeps growing The accelerating consumption and disposal practices in fashion cause textiles entering the market to reach their end-of-use rapidly. In North-West […]
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The automotive industry faces a number of major challenges this year. In addition to the European car market recording timid growth in 2019, CO2 emissions have continued to increase. This despite new regulation designed to curtail this. The Netherlands has again the lowest average of CO2 emissions. Last year, the volume weighted average CO2 emissions for European […]
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Zain Group, the leading mobile telecom innovator in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces the publication of its annual thought leadership report, this year entitled, “The Circular Economy: Embedding Sustainable Solutions in a bid to Save the Planet.” The report captures how the circular economy fits into helping address some of the devastating […]
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Today, the EU Commission has presented a ‘Circular Economy Action Plan‘. For the electronics sector, this initiative will enable longer product lifetimes through reusability and reparability as well as upgradeability of components and software to avoid premature obsolescence. Many of the proposals have long been advocated by Fairphone and have been implemented in the absence […]
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The European Academies of Science (EASAC) warn that current efforts to resolve the plastics crisis are ineffective and misleading. Policymakers and industry must address conflicts in the whole system, from production to end-of-life. “Reducing the leakage of millions of tons of plastic waste into the marine, terrestrial and freshwater environments is incompatible with banking on […]
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The first in a series of challenging sustainability ambitions has been announced by AkzoNobel, which are designed to accelerate the newly focused paints and coatings company towards zero waste and cut carbon emissions in half by 2030. The two key ambitions and their related targets are the first in a wave of measures and focus […]
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