The number of people who doubt the positive impact of recycling on the environment, industry, health, and our everyday life is thankfully shrinking with each passing year. Recycling has a significant role in any strategy for improving environmental conditions on the planet.
Whether we are buying coffee, booking a vacation, or making an investment we are producing emissions. It is not so easy to understand how for example the habit of buying a cup of coffee may cause an extreme heat wave in Europe or a flood in Pakistan but remember no single drop of water thinks its responsible for the flood. The impacts of our actions and our way of life is affecting the climate worldwide.
As the world faces its biggest healthcare challenge in more than a generation, the social impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) will be fast and prolonged.
The 2015 Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR), a global survey of 2500 business leaders in 35 economies, has revealed that over the past 12 months more than 15% of businesses across the world have suffered a cyber attack, costing a total of more than $300 billion (link). That's just the measurable costs. Who knows what the reputational damage, loss of trust and custom adds up to.