Everybody is talking about Circular Economy. But do you know what is it in details, on how it applies to your business? When something is perhaps seen as a ‘big’ word or concept it often helps to break it down into more tangible pieces, little bits everyone can relate to. Enter the Cola bottle! …

I have been lucky… Because I have travelled a lot, I have always been the little French, before being the black girl. Racism is not an issue all the sudden. This is not an issue for you (white people), but this is not all the sudden. It is like when…

Demands create markets and vice versa. Nowadays, not least due to public demand there is significant incentive for companies to become more socially responsible (or, at the very least, to be perceived as such). Numerous companies and individuals offer Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) services and choosing the right one can…

What is Corporate Social Responsibility ? You have heard about companies making huge profits while hiding their assets in some fiscal paradise, profiting from child labour, bribery, knowingly endangering their employees, the environment, and ultimately the society at large with harmful pesticides or other chemicals. Corporate Social responsibility, often abbreviated as CSR, is the obligation of…

In September 2020, news surfaced about food products being recalled from the supermarkets due to them being contaminated with ethylene oxide (ETO). Are these recalls a sign of a functioning food product controls? What is ethylene oxide? To the chemist, ethylene oxide (aka oxirane, aka epoxyethane, aka oxacyclopropane) is one of the most useful…

IYBSSD 2022 is the UN International Year of Basic Sciences and Sustainable Development. Let’s start at the beginning… What are Basic Sciences? The UN calls the scientific disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics ‘Basic Sciences’ because they provide a fundamental understanding of natural phenomena and the processes by which natural resources are transformed.

“So ya, thought ya Might like to go to the show…” At any given time, there are X different concerts scheduled in any given city. Artists spend half their lifetime on the road, some travel light with just their guitar, others put on spectacular shows. Some draw a few dozen…

It is, of course, the noise that comes from pulling the cork stopper out of the neck of a wine bottle. But what do you do with your cork? While cork is still the material of choice for making wine stoppers, it has found a host of other applications, from…

… when the world is warming up and the extinction of humanity is becoming a realistic scenario? Responsible to whom?, you might ask. To the kids you plan to raise, or to humanity as a whole? But let’s start with some facts. In 2020, the world population was 7.8 billion. The date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services each year…