This week’s topics
Evaluating Sustainable Operational Practices
- Sustainable procurement protocols
- Closed-loop reverse logistics networks
- Eco-design and bio-based packaging
- Low-carbon transport and green warehousing
- Lecture - 24 : Sustainability and Eco-design
- TU Delft – Success stories of 100 bio-based polymers PLA and PHA
What you will be able to do
- 2.2 Highlight the appropriateness of different sustainability practices for a business.
Activity
Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: highlight the appropriateness of different sustainability practices for a business.
Study materials
Videos
- TU Delft – Success stories of 100 bio-based polymers PLA and PHA · YouTube · TU Delft · 12 min · for registered students
- How can we make food packaging more sustainable? · YouTube · eCornell · 45 min · for registered students
- Stanford Webinar - Closing the Loop: The Circular Economy, Business & Sustainability · YouTube · Stanford Online · 59 min · for registered students
- Sustainable public procurement in the midst of the climate crisis · YouTube · OECD · 20 min · for registered students
- BioBased1x_2019_Module_4_4-3-1_Bio-PE_and_Bio-PET-video · YouTube · Biobased Products · 15 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Future of freight: a long-term plan (DfT, 2022) · PDF · GOV.UK, report; 134 pages · for registered students
- Sustainability logos and claims on food packaging and labels: The case of Türkiye · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
- Procurement Act 2023 guidance: Covered Procurement Objectives · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 11 pages · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
