Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Forced labour is everywhere – and it’s on the rise. Recent reports from the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimate 28 million people were in situations of forced labour in 2021, a 12 percent increase from 2016.

Acer Inc. announced that it has been listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices Emerging Markets Index in 2022 for the ninth straight year, and achieved its best ranking at No. 2 in THQ Computers & Peripherals and Office Electronics category.

In the wake of last year’s storms in the Central U.S., Team Depot, The Home Depot’s volunteer force, began donating and distributing water, trash bags, disaster relief buckets, and other essential items to affected areas.

Commercial furniture solutions company InstallNET was named a 2022 SEAL Sustainability Award honoree today for EcoServ, its rapidly growing circular decommission program for surplus commercial furniture, fixtures and equipment.

ISEAL’s revised Code of Good Practice looks to support trustworthy sustainability claims, and businesses are invited to have their say.

The apparel sector is responsible for between two and eight percent of annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Most of the Christmas trees sold in our stores come from family-owned tree farms, with many of them in three locations – Oregon, Canada and North Carolina. Whatever the type, when a family buys a fresh-cut tree, they’re taking home a sustainable, renewable resource that provides jobs.

A ring made of recovered platinum from end-of-life hardware through Lenovo’s Asset Recovery Services was on auction as part of ‘Lenovo Precious Metals’, an initiative to drive awareness of Lenovo’s ARS and harness the power of the circular economy.

Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) helped Green Bay Packaging open the first new papermill in Wisconsin in more than 35 years, providing power and process solutions that increase production capacity, improve reliability, and meet sustainability goals.

The 1.5°C climate change goal is an important one with a lot of science and history backing it up. We need to be careful; however, to remember that it is a political goal.