China to Expand Waste Import Ban
While many western cities and firms are scrambling to find solutions and workarounds for the mountains of waste plastic, unsorted paper, textile, and slag that can no longer be sent to China, the...
View ArticleChina’s Electric Vehicle Boom Brings a Wave of Battery Waste
The amount of retired EV (electric vehicle) batteries will grow at an unprecedented rate in China. Recycling them will bring twofold benefits – reducing the consumption of raw materials for producing...
View ArticleEvent Report: Industry 4.0: AI and the Supply Chain
On Tuesday, Collective Responsibility hosted its monthly Executive Luncheon focused on Industry 4.0: AI and Impacts on Supply Chain. This invitation-only event brought together a range of business...
View ArticleHow Will AI Shape Modern Business and Society?
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has been hailed by some as a technological revolution set to eclipse the invention of the wheel, steam engine, automobile, or even the internet in terms...
View ArticleWorker Wellbeing: The New Factory Audit?
Supply chains are the backbone of our global economy; they deliver the goods and services we use around the world, spanning geographic, industry and cultural boundaries. As these interconnected webs of...
View ArticleLUXEPACK Sustainable Packaging Training
Last week, Collective Responsibility held two training sessions, in Shanghai and Shenzhen, to help packaging manufacturers in China incorporate sustainability into their products through innovations in...
View ArticleTarget Hackathon | Design an APP for China’s Left Behind Children
We are excited to announce our next hackathon, hosted by Target Corporation on June 2-3 in Shanghai, will bring student teams will work with executives from leading technology and design communities to...
View ArticleChina’s Airpocalypse: Why London’s Playbook Won’t Work.
“Beijing’s pollution is bad, but they’ll clean their air just like London did …” In 1952, the five-day Great Smog of London killed more than 12,000 people and made over 150,000 people ill. It was an...
View ArticleSupply Chain Sustainability: The Bestway to Put Theory Into Practice
SUSTAINABILITY: THEORY VS. REALITY When discussing sustainable business, ideas that make “big-picture” environmental sense on paper may or may not translate well into day-to-day practice. What may seem...
View ArticleSmog in China: Wind Patterns and Pollution
Air pollution is on everyone’s radar, not just in China, but throughout the world. Recent news pieces are beginning to expose the extent to which air pollution is becoming a truly global problem. From...
View ArticleAutomation & Manufacturing: 3 Insights of China’s Migrant Workers
With an increased number of reports and discussions focused on the impact of automation on jobs, there is a clear (and growing) concern in many areas of the world. It is a concern that we first studied...
View ArticleMoving Towards Home: “Hope and Opportunity” Revisited
At the beginning of 2016, we interviewed more than 100 migrant workers in Shanghai. We listened to their bittersweet life stories. One of the stories, in particular, touched our hearts. Check out the...
View ArticleChina’s Left-Behind Children Disappear
“There are more than 9 million left-behind children in rural China, according to the latest figure announced on Wednesday. But compared to the previous number, 52 million left-behind children have...
View ArticleWhat Trump Means for Energy and the Future of Environmental Policy
This is Part One of Collective’s ongoing series on Trump, China, and the future of global energy policy. Election Aftershock The past two days have been a political frenzy. Abroad, American allies have...
View ArticleNew Report: Manufacturing Labor in China
In this new report we provide insight into China’s manufacturing labor force. For so long the work horse of the Chinese economy, the area of manufacturing has recently undergone considerable structural...
View ArticleEvent Insight: The Future of Work
Globally the future of work is changing. Millennial workers are entering the office, with widely differing expectations than the previous generations, more automated systems are cannibalizing jobs, and...
View ArticlePractively Engaging the Firm’s Externalities to Reduce Risk
While meeting with 10 partners from one of the world’s leading consulting firms, I engaged in a conversation where I spoke about how foreign firms in China would seemingly do all they could to look...
View ArticleDeveloping a Sustainable and Responsible Supply Chain
Developing the business case for sustainability is growing easier by the day, and many executives are now identifying areas where their firm is exposed. It is a process that for many, even those with...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Systems We Aim to Fix
With the conversations around systems and sustainability still largely a moving a target that bounces between emotional polar bears and destructive weather systems, I honestly cannot think of a better...
View ArticleDeconstructing China’s Cleantech Charts
If you have been following China for any amount of time, then you will know that China is good for a chart that will shock and awe readers. Few, if any, in the cleantech space have as much power as...
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