大会最后由绿色环保和平污染防治项目总经理江卓珊、泰瑞环保中国区赵通和零垃圾生活创始人汤蓓佳,分别从消费带来的污染说起,到产生的垃圾应该如何处理,到最后的节能减排,向观众提出了他们对于环保的理解和对公益的支持,以及由此带来的乐趣。
Packaging can earn a wide range of awards and that's all well and good, but there’s a globally known organization, the United Nations (New York City), that’s not usually associated with awards for packaging developments.
Who in the world would ever invest in worm poop?
In the very beginning it was pretty much just one person, Tom Szaky, who began by investing his time and energy in 2002 as a Princeton University freshman. Szaky had seen friends in his hometown of Montreal feed kitchen scraps to worms in a composting box and then put the worm poop into the soil of their indoor plants, which were thriving. Szaky thought that the worms could be put to some profitable use. The summer of his freshman year he contracted with the university’s food services department to compost food waste. In his sophomore year he borrowed $30,000 from his family to form TerraCycle.
I recently experienced some great customer service, via Twitter no less, and I thought it would be worth writing a quick blog post about.
Waste recycling pioneer TerraCycle, a brainchild of a young Canadian entrepreneur that has grown to become a global leader in the hard-to-recycle waste, has been named a winner of the United Nations (UN)'s Momentum for Change Lighthouse Activity award.