What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting is the name commonly given to the process of assessing an organisation’s impact on climate change by calculating its emissions of carbon-based greenhouse gases (GHGs). This often means some digging around in your purchasing records and a bit of number crunching, but it doesn’t have to be a hard [...]
Australia has a problem with fast fashion. The rise of companies such as Temu and Shein have created a situation where people are buying clothes and disposing of them, sometimes unworn, because they are so cheap. This causes a multitude of problems: Piles of unwanted clothes in Atacama Desert, Chile (credit: https://phys.org/) Greenhouse [...]
Do you work in a lab, or fast food? Surprisingly, these two industries have a lot in common when it comes to single use plastic. We recently completed a net zero pathway for a client and learned a lot about single use labware in the process. Admittedly, it’s a bit niche, but we thought it [...]