Standards in the News

Third-party certification standards documenting progress toward important social and environmental goals have become a fact of life in industry sectors across the economy.  Standards range from comprehensive multi-attribute, multi-stakeholder initiatives involving globally recognized industry leaders, NGOs, academics and other experts, to private-sector standards seeking to raise…

It’s hard to believe, but the term “zero waste” has been around for more than 40 years. It was first used by a chemist, Paul Palmer, who noticed an abundance of clean chemicals being discarded by high-tech businesses in a newly developing area of northern California which we’ve all come to know as Silicon Valley. He saw a need for identifying new uses for the chemicals and a new concept of…