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What is ‘scrap’?
Surely everyone knows what scrap is? Well, kind of. But we’re going to need to get technical… I want to focus on iron and steel scrap, so when I say ‘scrap’ that is what I am talking about. But already we have to think about stuff that might be mixed up with iron and steel…
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Iron, steel and croissants
Fairly early in the development of ResponsibleSteel I was contacted by a multinational clothing company which was reviewing its sustainability strategy. They were looking at all the materials their products were made from, investigating the social and environmental impacts of those materials, and asking how they could specify materials in their supply chain more sustainably.…
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Communicating Sustainability Standards
How can we talk about sustainability standards in a clear, consistent and compelling language? It may seem like a strange question to ask, but in 2009 there was a problem. The Pacific Institute would go to meetings with policy makers, funders and think tanks and find that the people they were talking to had not realised…
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