The capacity exists. What's missing is the collection.
Japan's urban mine is among the largest in the world. Yet the recovery rate for gold is under 10%. What's missing isn't smelting technology, it's the mechanism to collect. A reading of what really constrains the circulation of non-ferrous metals.
The capacity exists. What's missing is the collection.
Japan's urban mine is among the largest in the world. Yet the recovery rate for gold is under 10%. What's missing isn't smelting technology, it's the mechanism to collect.
After the GHG Protocol.
The Global Circularity Protocol, led by WBCSD. Just as the GHG Protocol turned carbon into the language of business, the GCP will turn circularity into the language of the world.
Collection & transport prices can no longer be held flat.
The revision of the price-negotiation guidelines is a shift in the very cost structure of collection & transport. From price, to design.
"How you sort your waste" became a certification.
A new USGBC report points to an era where waste data becomes proof of enterprise value. Decoding two certifications: LEED and TRUE.