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In September 2021, the European Commission tweeted ‘Let's pull the plug on electronic waste’. What was tweeted then will soon come into action— as a celebrated movement to eliminate unnecessary waste from chargers. In 2024, the European Union (EU) is introducing a universal charger policy to reduce electronic
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A study conducted in 2021 by researchers from University College London claimed that it is important to leave approximately 58% of oil, 56% of fossil methane gas and 89% of coal untouched in 2050 to stay within a 1.5°C temperature increase limit. Fossil fuels, such as coal, oil,
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The UNEP Food Waste Index 2021 states that in 2019, around 931 million tonnes of food waste were generated around the world – of which 61% came from households, 26% from food service and 13% from retail. Food is currently responsible for approximately 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Food production
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Approximately 53% of the green claims made within the European Union (EU) are imprecise, deceitful, or unsupported, while 40% lack any corroborating evidence. The EU’s new green label criteria highlighted that a responsible company must ensure its brand is reliable, comparable, and verifiable. The EU is currently counting 230
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The circular design process is a method of creating products and services that are sustainable, ethical, and socially responsible by using the principles of the circular economy that considers reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recycling. In February 2023, The Circularity Gap Report stated that the amount of materials being reintroduced back
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Cradle-to-grave is a model representing a product’s full life cycle journey, starting from raw material extraction, production, use, and disposal after the end of its life. At the end of the value chain, the current standard waste management practice is either landfill or incineration, or recycling. Before any product
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Design out waste Last year, as the world started getting immune to COVID-19, they turned to coal to compensate for the degraded economy. According to an IEA, this resulted in increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 6% (36.3 billion tonnes) in 2021, compared to 2020. Sustainability— quite often reminds
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Carbon offsetting has become a “go-to solution” to compensate for human-induced carbon emissions. However, critics have questioned the scheme's transparency and reliability. A carbon offset can be understood as math— the credit (tCO2e) that an emitter can purchase by stopping the same amount of emission from happening somewhere