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  PRODUCTS AND DESIGN
The Role of the Representative Product in Product Environmental Footprinting
 
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The Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) approach is a game-changing initiative in LCA, with effects and ramifications that we are only just beginning to understand. Today in PRé's PEF series: What is a European representative product? And how do these products play a crucial role in the development of specific rules for product environmental footprinting of the various product groups?
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  WASTE NOT
One Man's Trash: New Technologies, Partnerships Boosting Recycling Around the World
 
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Among the key challenges to the burgeoning recycling market are lack of infrastructure, innovation at scale and funding. But a variety of initiatives — in developed and developing areas alike — are attempting to secure these factors to help spur the development of circular economic infrastructure.
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  CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS
Vote to Allocate Part of €1M Global Change Award to Your Favorite Circular Textile Innovation
 
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The first five winning ideas of the first-ever Global Change Award — a €1 million challenge for early-stage innovation in the fashion industry — range from creating new textiles out of citrus juice by-products and an online marketplace for recycling of textile leftovers to using microbes to recycle waste polyester. Now, the global public is asked to allocate the €1 million grant between the winners in an online vote this week.
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  STAKEHOLDER TRENDS AND INSIGHTS
Sharing Economy Provides the Unique, Convenient Experiences Canadian Millennials Crave
 
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Millennials comprise of over 30 percent of the labor force in both the United States and Canada. They are doing things differently, hold different values, and have a high affinity for technology. A recent behavioral economics study from Capital One revealed that Canadians, particularly millennials, favor experiences over ownership — so much so that 85 percent of Canadians would rather have two years of amazing experiences (including travel, concerts and dining out) than upgrade from an affordable car to a luxury vehicle — and that is good news for the sharing economy.
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  CLEANTECH
Trending: Wastewater, Algae Have Untapped Potential for Clean Water, Energy Generation
 
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Wastewater treatment and renewable energy production can be costly endeavors. However, if valuable chemicals could be extracted from wastewater, or if algae could more easily be used to turn carbon dioxide from the air into biofuel, companies could profitably pursue such projects. Researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) and the Chinese Academy of Science & Technology are working to make this possible.
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  LIBRARY | RESEARCH REPORT
2016 Energy and Sustainability Predictions Report
 
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Ecova's latest research report continues their benchmarking effort this year with 2016 Energy and Sustainability Outlook survey, which reached more than 700 energy, sustainability, facility and finance professionals on behalf of North American-based companies. This year's survey results illustrate steady advances in organizational efforts to move the needle toward long-term energy and sustainability management goals, particularly in the context of low cost/no cost efforts and EMS (energy management systems) infrastructure.
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