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Tag Archives: sustainability
ISO 20400 for Sustainable Procurement: A framework for better global citizens
The ISO 20400 standard for sustainable procurement is beneficial to today’s manufacturers as it will help you improve your sustainability, environmental impact, ethical behavior, and social responsibility. We introduce the standard with a summary of its key points here…
India’s Efforts To Mitigate Its Environmental Impact (Summer 2023)
China gains a lot of headlines for its leadership in renewable energy production, and rightly so, as they push to hit peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. However, its neighboring giant, India, is also working on reducing its environmental impact, … Continue reading
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Tagged manufacturing in india, renewable energy, sustainability, sourcing from india
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Responsible & Sustainable Purchasing Practices in Focus
Renaud and Adrian discuss both responsible and sustainable purchasing practices. It can be easy to overlook buyers’ role in their supply chains’ ESG performances, but those that do not purchase responsibly or go further and so sustainably, are damaging their … Continue reading
Do you have enough visibility over your supply chain to satisfy new EU sustainability regulations?
The EU is bringing in sustainability regulations in 2025 that will demand that you have full visibility over your supply chain and can provide evidence of who is in it, where they are, and what materials and components go into … Continue reading
39 Strategies For Designing Products With A Lower Environmental Impact
Renaud and Adrian from the team tackle how to design products with less negative environmental impacts and share and comment on the 39 environmental improvement strategies from the IEC 62430:2019 standard for environmentally conscious design. You’ll find that you won’t … Continue reading
EU ESPR is Coming in 2023: Act Now to become more Sustainable. [Podcast]
Renaud and compliance expert Clive Greenwood are back with a warning for importers who sell products in the EU about the impending EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) which is due to come into effect in May 2023. This … Continue reading
How To Comply With The EU Ecodesign Regulation? [Podcast part 2]
This is a crucial listen to anyone currently importing products into the EU! The new EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation is coming soon, meaning that you will be legally obliged to comply with its demands for more sustainable products, … Continue reading
What is the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation?
The European Union is getting serious about sustainability and is already working towards ‘becoming a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050 and where economic growth is decoupled from resource use.’ … Continue reading
Why Design Cradle To Cradle Products? [Podcast]
Renaud and Adrian discuss ‘Cradle to Cradle’ product design. Sustainable products are gaining in popularity thanks to consumers becoming more environmentally conscious, climate change being more obvious, and resources becoming scarcer and more expensive. Products that are designed to become … Continue reading
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Tagged cradle to cradle, sustainability, green manufacturing, product design
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Designing New Products With A Cradle To Cradle Cycle In Mind
As we described in Minimizing A Product’s ‘Cradle To Grave’ Environmental Impact, businesses have been under pressure to be more efficient in making and distributing their products and to make recycling easier. And we also mentioned that the whole concept … Continue reading
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Tagged recycling, cradle to cradle, sustainability, green manufacturing
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