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What is sustainability?

What is sustainability?

Sustainability: 'the quality of causing little or no damage and therefore able to continue for a long time.' When I was growing up, beyond the year 2000 was the realm of flying cars and imagination false

What changed my behaviour?

What changed my behaviour?

Landing with a bump into the Heathrow and the cold, damp funk of Brexit Britain, I cast my mind over the week’s events, to the people I have met and the brief glimpse I had into their lives. Whilst false

Have we become desensitised to the danger of plastic pollution?

Have we become desensitised to the danger of plastic pollution?

I was sickened to read this week that a whale was beached dead with 40 kilos of plastic waste in its stomach. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47608949 Another piece of evidence false

Think Differently. Ditto Sustainability launch the Fire and Rescue e-learning module.

Think Differently. Ditto Sustainability launch the Fire and Rescue e-learning module.

Think differently, the now infamous advertising campaign produced by Apple between 1997 and 2002 highlighted that people who see things differently change things: “Here’s to the crazy ones, the false

Five things you need to know about the Resources and Waste Strategy Consultations

Five things you need to know about the Resources and Waste Strategy Consultations

On the 18th February the Government published a series of documents asking for the public views on key areas of waste management. Resident expert David Newman has compiled the top five things you false

Smoke and Mirrors

30 January, 2019

Smoke and Mirrors

I was recently asked to present at the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (formerly BIFM) AGM about the plastic’s ‘crisis’. A subject that I had written about for World Environment day false

17 December, 2018

Drowning in Plastic

On November 29th I was invited to join Liz Bonnin, BBC environmental documentarist, to talk at the Royal Geographic Society on how we as a Planet are ‘drowning in plastics’ a documentary originally false

My time at CivTech®

26 October, 2018

My time at CivTech®

Where in Scotland does the public sector, private sector, community, investors and third sector come together to build innovative, industry defining ideas? The answer is CivTech®. A unique false

Ditto Sustainability thrilled to win CivTech® 3.0's Challenge 6

24 October, 2018

Ditto Sustainability thrilled to win CivTech® 3.0's Challenge 6

Ditto Sustainability has been chosen to transform the re-use of products for NHS Scotland. Reducing waste, providing cost savings, and developing skilled jobs; stimulating the Scottish circular false

Going circular with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)

15 October, 2018

Going circular with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)

Dan Botterill, CEO of Ditto Sustainability, explains how Artificial intelligence (AI) can help towards achieving a more circular economy. The 4th Industrial revolution conjures imagery of all kinds false

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