Worldwide Recycling
Since 1997, November 15 has been dedicated to recycling – it is America Recycles Day and this annual event has been launched by the National Recycling Coalition. Nowadays, as it is known, the matter of reuse and recycle raw materials is really urgent. According to some statistics, the mankind has reached a worldwide population of 7 billion. Thus there is too much waste and America is responsible for consuming a disproportionate share of the planet’s resources. In many countries recycling is done by necessity, in others, reusing materials is done in a creative and useful way by artists, governments and businesses. Almost every used product or packaging maybe used as an artwork or other new, useful thing. Here are some purposes, ways how one material can act as a new, raw material for creating others:
As we consider recycling from the angle of industrial manufacturing, Ecotech Recycling Social Enterprise has done a good job. Managing Director Ming Cheung in this photo poses with fuel oil converted from plastic waste in front of his “Plastic Waste-to-Fuel System” plant, Hong Kong , August 24, 2011. The project is designed to support the practical and cost effective solution to plastic waste management with energy regeneration. The result of this prototype machine is converting three tons of plastic waste into 1,000 liters of fuel oil daily. This fuel oil need further refinement and then it is suitable for diesel engine usage.
There is an interesting example where plastic bottles and other recycled plastic and waste products are reused. Precisely, 11.000 reclaimed bottles are
Carbon Retirement
Carbon offsets can be considered as the best idea in the world – a financial instrument created to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They are obtained by corporations or governments to comply with caps on the amount of carbon dioxide they can emit into the atmosphere. For example, the purchase of one carbon offset is corresponding to the reduction of one metric ton of carbon dioxide. Generally, they are intended to fund projects that seek to reduce quantities of greenhouse gas emissions.
However, large corporations are continuing to pollute the atmosphere and carbon offsetting does not motivate them to invest in new technologies. Rather than try to run their companies at peak carbon efficiency, they can simply pay a nominal tax on the amount they go over. Moreover, some projects funded by carbon offsets are of doubtful origin, and there is no certainty they will indeed reduce CO2 emissions in levels equivalent to what is being produced.
In order to persuade companies not to use carbon offsetting as a crutch, the answer might be to turn to carbon retirement. What does it mean?
European Energy Strategy
All around the world, there is more and more attention that is paid to the energy consumption, energy sources and contemporary energy issues. Thus, in Europe, there is a plan how to approach all the required changes. This energy strategy of The European Commission requires that 20 per cent of all energy consumed within the EU should be from renewable sources by 2020. It is estimated that 12 per cent of overall energy use should be supplied by offshore wind and member states are required to implement sufficient grid capacity to accept wind power.
The European Union has also constricted legislation on the internal electricity markets, and imposes that Transmission System Operators (TSO’s) comply bi-annual transmission development plans. The program is intended to create a single electricity market across Europe and the aim is to achieve improved system operation, fair access for renewable generation systems, and greater cooperation between TSO’s.
By 2050, these long term energy strategy targets will lead towards an 80-95% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The new development of the European grid infrastructure has to consider the current issues of enabling connection to wind power and delivering electricity from offshore wind to immediate targets.
The requirements for a new European infrastructure
In addition to the integration of renewable energy, Europe can achieve several benefits from a complete and continental wide electricity network structure. The cost of the move towards a carbon free society for individual countries will be reduced by a fully interconnected grid utilizing smart technology. This can immensely develop and improve the security of service for consumers, and guarantee efficient use and lower prices by the routing of energy to specific areas of demand. Also, it also rises competition in the energy market in Europe.
Who is best suited to PRINCE2 Foundation or PRINCE2 Practitioner?
First some background: PRINCE2 training is the most widely used standard project management framework in the UK. PRINCE2 is an acronym for PRojects IN a Controlled Environment and describes a comprehensive methodology for project management best practice which is transferable across a wide range of industries. The methodology itself is published by the Cabinet Office and individuals are certified by APM Group, which is licensed by the Cabinet Office. Despite its public sector origins PRINCE2 is used across all industry sectors and so PRINCE2 training is the default choice for projects managers everywhere.
What is the difference between PRINCE2 Foundation and PRINCE2 Practitioner and who should do both?
PRINCE2 Foundation is an introduction to Prince2 training and covers details of the PRINCE2 methodology and terminology plus the documents, roles and stages in PRINCE2. This is a 3 day course and you can take PRINCE2 Foundation exam at the end to gain the PRINCE2 Foundation 
qualification. For many people involved in projects, but not managing them, this is training well worth doing. So product managers, engineering leads and business analysts are key groups that should get PRINCE2 Foundation training and certification – but the additional benefits of PRINCE2 Practitioner are not always needed.
How To Streamline Your Business With Efficient Digital Asset Management
In the modern world of business, files and pieces of information are no longer kept only in physical form. They are also stored as digital files on computers. This is done so that everything can be kept track of in a very efficient manner. It is also done so that information can be shared easily. It is much easier to transfer a digital file from one person to the next than it is to mail them a copy of a piece of paper. The whole process of keeping things in order is called digital asset management, and you need to do this effectively if you want your business to run efficiently at all times.
Using Central Servers
The first thing that you need to do is to store all of the files on central servers that can be accessed easily from any of your computer stations. This will allow all of your employees to get to the information that they need right when they need it. They will not even have to leave their terminals. You can still restrict who has access to sensitive information by putting it behind passwords. In fact, you want to make sure that everything that you have on your servers is not accessible by every employee or you could have information accidentally deleted, misplaced, or altered.
Sir Leon Bagrit – The Age of Automation
The process of automation started many years ago. There were debates and lectures about the increased technological development in computing and how it changed the world we lived in. We are going to share with you a fragment of a lecture by Sir Leon Bagrit. The lecture is from 1964, however, many of his ideas can be recognized even nowadays. Sir Leon Bagrit was a peoneer of automation and a leading industrialist in Britain. He predicted many features that are in developing today, so we can say that his company was a company of the tomorrow in his time. Let us read his outstanding ideas and enjoy in them.
“Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented. There is a great technological explosion around us, generated by science. This explosion is already freeing vast numbers of people from their traditional bondage to nature, and now at last we have it in our power to free mankind once and for all from the fear which is based on want. Now, for the first time, man can reasonably begin to think that life can be something more than a grim struggle for survival. But even today, in spite of the high standard of living which has become general in the more fortunate West, the majority of people in the world still spend nearly all their time and energy in a never-ending struggle with nature to secure the food and shelter they need. Even in this elementary effort millions of human beings each year die unnecessarily and wastefully from hunger, disease, or flood.
Yet, in the West, science and technology have made it possible for us to have a plentiful supply of food, produced by only a fraction of the labour that was 
necessary even a few decades ago. In the United States, for instance, one man on the land produces more than enough food to feed fifteen men in the cities, and, in fact, there is a surplus of food grown even by this small proportion of the American labour force. We have considerably extended our expectation of life. We have enriched our lives by creating physical mobility through the motor-car, the jet aeroplane, and other means of mechanical transport; and we have added to our intellectual mobility by the telephone, radio, and television. Not content with these advances, we are now thrusting forward the stars, and the conquest of space no longer strikes us as Wellsian or Jules Vernian. And with the advent of the new phase of technology we call automation, we have the promise both of greater leisure and of even greater material and intellectual riches.
But this is not inevitable. It depends on automation being adequately exploited. We shall need to apply our scientific and technological resources to literally every aspect of our society, to our commerce, our industry, our medicine, our agriculture, our transportation.
