Professor Sharon Beder (a visiting professorial fellow at the University of Wollongong writes an article that underscores the myth of ‘growth economy’. In a different tangent to my ‘value added’ products (where a company with an association with another company markets their products through another organisation to boost profit margins; i.e cardboard tubing manufacturer sells [...]
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GDP Growth Boosted by Engineered Obsolesence
January 11th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: social responsibility · usa · waste
Only in America?
January 10th, 2010 · No Comments
This week the New York Times reported a disheartening story about two of the largest retail chains. You see, instead of taking unsold items to sample sales or donating them to people in need, H&M and Wal-Mart have been throwing them out in giant trash bags. And in the case that someone may stumble on [...]
Tags: social responsibility · usa · waste