When Randi Lippert moved to London from Canada for work she was looking forward to getting to know her new colleagues. Unfortunately, she relocated just before the first coronavirus lockdown last year. "I didn't have much in-office time to bond with my new team members before we all had to work from home," says the
Burgeoning plastic pollution concerns across developing and developed economies are spurring manufacturers to investigate sustainable packaging solutions, thus prompting major breakthroughs. Read more
Every day we are inundated with various social media posts and news sources telling us about what does or does not work, that some things may be harmful, or that a product is not safe because it contains a chemical that causes cancer or other adverse health effects in animals. You may wonder if you
In November, I wrote that China was giving up taking American (and European) recyclables. Local trash deposits were telling me this as far back as August, that they had no one to take container fulls of broken glass and plastic containers. I was advised to just throw it in the standard kitchen trash bag. But
Washington — The chemical substance perchloroethylene poses unreasonable risk to workers under certain conditions, according to a final risk evaluation recently released by the Environmental Protection Agency, which is now compelled to propose within one year regulatory action to mitigate the chemical’s hazards. Read more
Leaders are always seeking to improve employee productivity (including their own). All too often, that quest goes no further than time management training provided by the HR department. Those classes cover the pros and cons of Inbox Zero, the Pomodoro technique, the Eisenhower matrix, Getting Things Done, and countless other approaches that tantalize us with
The free trade deal between the UK and EU, announced on Christmas Eve, takes effect from 1 January. What does the agreement mean and what other trade deals has the UK made? What is a free trade deal? A free trade deal aims to encourage trade - usually in goods but occasionally in services -
The Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) has redesigned its toolbox for helping countries identify appropriate and efficient national actions to address specific problems regarding chemicals management.The December 2020 redesign of the IOMC Internet-based Toolbox for Decision Making in Chemicals Management is intended to provide easier and more direct access to eight management
Creating a brand is all about tapping into human psychology — adding an intangible desire (and a higher price) to what is often a good product, but objectively not very different from a dozen similar choices. Early marketing thinking theorized that the best way to stand out as a brand was to develop a product
