With China moving to reduce its exports of rare earth elements, there is no longer just an environmental incentive but also an economic driver to improve waste management, in particular the reduction, re-use and recycling of rare earth elements.
In the last few years, China has adopted a more protectionist stance in the provision of rare earths, such as antimony, graphite and magnesium and is expected to introduce a full export ban by 2015.This position is starting to impact electronics producers worldwide, with major German technology manufacturers, in October, reporting their first shortage of rare metals used for electronics like mobile phones, according to a recent article in Spiegel Magazine.
BRUSSELS – 22 May 2013 – Brussels-based sustainability communications and public relations firm Sustainability Consult is launching Green Drinks Brussels with the first meeting today at the Aloft Brussels Schuman hotel, Place Jean Rey, B-1040 at 18:30h. MORE > >
BRUSSELS – 15 May 2013 – Brussels-based sustainability communications and PR firm Sustainability Consult is proud to have become a member of Kauri in 2013. Kauri is the Belgian multi-actor learning network and knowledge centre on Corporate ResponsibilityMORE > >
The Sustainability Consult Team is pleased to launch Green Drinks Brussels.
Green Drinks is a non-profit international organisation that promotes informal drinks for networking and sharing ideas for people who work in the environmental field or have MORE > >
BRUSSELS – 7 May 2013 – Brussels-based sustainability communications and PR firm Sustainability Consult and Belgian NGO Natuurpunt have launched a partnership to help preserve and improve access to nature in the Steentjesbos, a 47 hectare wood in the FlanMORE > >
Sustainability Consult, as a 1% for the Planet member, is committed to giving 1% of its sales to an environmental non-profit. We chose local NGO Natuurpunt as it works with nature preservation around Brussels and the Flanders region.MORE > >
Mechelen – 7 mei 2013 – Het Steentjesbos in Kampenhout krijgt vanaf augustus bijkomende
infrastructuur voor wandelaars en families. Het internationale communicatiebureau Sustainability
Consult uit Brussel gaat er investeren in speeltuigen voor kinderen,MORE > >
BRUXELLES – 7 mai 2013 – Sustainability Consult, une agence de relations publiques et de communication axée sur le développement durable basée à Bruxelles, et l'ONG belge Natuurpunt se sont lancés dans un partenariat visant à aider, à préserver et à améliMORE > >
Sustainability Consult is proud to have become a member of Kauri, the Belgian multi-actor learning network and knowledge centre on Corporate Responsibility (Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance & Corporate Citizenship) anMORE > >
As a sustainability communications professional, Sustainability Consult’s CEO, Kathryn Sheridan, was invited to moderate two sessions during the Sustainability, Policy and Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) session of the World Biofuels Markets Conference onMORE > >
The Ceramic Roadmap 'Paving the Way to 2050' - the response of the ceramic industry to the European policy debate on the low-carbon economy for 2050 - was the result of a five-month Sustainability Consult project with the European Ceramic Industry...MORE > >
Sustainability Consult CEO Kathryn Sheridan looks at making the link between peace and sustainability with the EU winning the Nobel Peace PrizeMORE > >
Sustainability Consult's CEO, Kathryn Sheridan, discusses the Rio+20 summit and asks are we all simply “doomed” regardless of “modest” advancements in environmental objectives?MORE > >
We don't often advertise, but did so in last week's supplement in The Independent newspaper, World Environment Day 'Understand the Green Economy'...MORE > >
Repairing and upcycling… are they an opportunity or threat for the waste industry?
Kathryn Sheridan of Sustainability Consult takes up the discussion…MORE > >
Sustainability Consult is facilitating its first press conference where bloggers are invited to participate with journalists and keynote speakers in a discussion on the future of manufacturing in Europe...MORE > >
On Sunday 18 March, Sustainability Consult helped welcome the Spring season by participating in a tree-planting event in the Forêt de Soignes near Brussels...MORE > >
Monday's bio-economy strategy will help bring more policy coherence to a sector that has so far not enjoyed much attention at top EU level. But more than good intentions, bio-based industries need concrete measures, writes Kathryn SheridanMORE > >
Sustainability Consult has joined 1% for the Planet, a growing global movement of companies which donate one percent of their annual sales to non-profit environmental organisations.MORE > >
Sustainability Consult's client, BioAmber, Inc., a renewable chemicals company based in Minnesota, USA, recently won an ICIS Innovation Award and made the Cleantech Group and The Guardian Newspaper's Cleantech 100 list for 2011...MORE > >
Kathryn Sheridan, founder and director of Sustainability Consult, looks at the business case for sustainability in the speciality chemicals industryMORE > >
Our client BioAmber has been awarded a 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, presented by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the American Chemical Society (ACS)...MORE > >
Sustainability Consult's nano reporter attended the EuroNanoForum 2011 in Budapest on 30 May-1 June. With over 1,200 delegates, four parallel conference sessions, workshops, outreach and an exhibition, ENF2001 was the EU nano event of the year...MORE > >
Denmark produces more waste per person than any other country in the European Union, with a hefty 833kg of municipal waste, compared to the Czech Republic or Poland which has only 316kg per person...MORE > >
With China moving to reduce its exports of rare earth elements, there is no longer just an environmental incentive but also an economic driver to improve waste management...MORE > >
A global coalition of 46 NGOs called yesterday on the European Commission to adopt a “cautious and broad” definition of nanomaterials. In response to the Commission’s public consultation, which closed on 19 November, the NGOs said they welcomed the definMORE > >
The Environment Committee in the European Parliament voted in early June on the revision of the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive...MORE > >
Summer in Brussels is always a quiet time and this year more so than most. While only 34.5 percent of Britons voted in the European Parliament elections (against a European average turnout of 43 percent)...MORE > >
Kathryn Sheridan, lead consultant at PR and issue management firm, Sustainability Consult, looks at how sustainability can shape the future of the speciality chemicals industry...MORE > >
