{"id":8102,"date":"2020-09-17T14:40:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revuze.it\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2020-09-17T14:40:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:40:39","slug":"contemporary-opportunities-for-industrial-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revuze.it\/blog\/contemporary-opportunities-for-industrial-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Opportunities For Industrial Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
As environmental awareness grows, industrial trends must follow to support values held by consumers. A 2018 survey discovered that 81% of consumers<\/a> strongly believe that companies have a responsibility toward the environment. The longstanding association between industrial practices with high energy, water, and pollution intensity has shifted to incorporate innovative and green solutions. Many brands are marketing wastewater reuse, energy efficiency, and lifecycle assessment techniques to reduce their environmental impact. Many solutions are circulating between various industries.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Considering the rising rates of plastic production, which reached an astonishing 359 million tonnes<\/a> globally last year, biodegradable and compostable solutions have the potential to reform the trillion-dollar packaging industry. The current reliance on plastic as a single-use product presents an opportunity to use materials such as mushrooms and algae to create organic compounds rather than synthetic plastics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The procurement of metals is a highly degrading industry, touching upon many factors within sustainability. Current mining practices are emission-intensive and the work is often outsourced to countries without child labor laws or rights for workers. To make matters worse, roughly 90% of all water stress and biodiversity loss is at the hands of the mining industry. Ultimately these extracted metals (often including precious metals such as platinum, silver, and aluminum) end up in landfills as parts of our electronic devices, contributing to waste and perpetuating the need for greenhouse gas emitting mining. Apple has had a trade-in and recycling program for years, which provides an in-store credit to customers for the purchase of products and supplies the company with materials they would otherwise need to purchase. Other technologies producing companies have followed suit to produce laptops using recycled materials, such as the new Dragonfly laptop<\/a> by HP using \u201cocean bound\u201d plastic found on the banks of rivers and tributaries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Personal care products currently use plastic for a good share of their packaging. Some companies, such as Loreal are using a life cycle assessment model to analyze their environmental impact from the beginning of production until the product is thrown away, helping to reduce waste using a project called SPOT<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nConsumer Packaging<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Technology<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Personal care<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n