More and more people are consuming more consciously and want to know where a product they buy comes from and under what conditions it is manufactured. At the same time, media pressure on companies to bring transparency...
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Sustainability and Compliance Trends – What Kept Companies Busy in 2018?
At the beginning of 2018, iPoint started to conduct a survey on Sustainability and Compliance Trends 2018 – and the response was overwhelming: More than 450 participants from different industries provided information...
Smart Microorganisms at Work: Turning Waste into Bioplastic
How a waste product like pentose wood sugars is transformed into bioplastic and can be used as a new resource for plastic coatings and packaging. So called 1st generation biofuels are based on materials such as corn...
Blockchain for Circular Supply Chain
Blockchain technology enables us to digitize and streamline the supply chain workflows to improve efficiency, reduce costs and improve management of resources, compliance and risks. What are the current Supply Chain...
Clevere Mikroorganismen am Werk: Aus Abfall wird Biokunststoff
So genannte Biokraftstoffe der ersten Generation basieren auf Materialien wie Mais, Zuckerrohr, Weizen oder Raps. Sie basieren somit auf den gleichen Ressourcen, die auch für die Lebensmittelproduktion wichtig sind...
Towards a Digital Circular Economy
Take – make – use – dispose is causing increasingly scarce resources, environmental pollution and social exploitation. This is the still prevailing linear economy system. The linear economy system Products which are...
Digital Circular Economy – The Digital Revolution of the Circular Economy
In contrast to the linear economy (take, make, use, dispose), the circular economy approach does not see an absolute end to a product or process. iPoint’s holistic, circular perspective envisages a continuous...
Interview with “Germany’s most sustainable large-scale enterprise 2014”
Marko Schnarr works for the environmental office at Miele, the well-known manufacturer of household appliances. His goal is to expand the company’s decision-making matrix to fully include environmental aspects. Enjoy...
“Deutschlands nachhaltigstes Großunternehmen 2014” im Interview
Marko Schnarr ist Referent für Ressourceneffizienz, Ökobilanzierung und Ökolabelling beim Haushaltsgeräte-Hersteller Miele. Ihm ist es wichtig, die Entscheidungsmatrix um die Umweltdimension zu erweitern. Viel Spaß beim...