Operational engineering and manufacturing drive the majority of investment plans and proposals.

My lifetime carbon footprint will be in the top 25% of the world population despite my efforts now to minimise it.I have three children who are very aware and are taking decisions which will mean their impact on the world will be positive.. What should I do in this contrite state?

Should I wear a hair shirt, carry around my guilt, or go and live like a hermit?.The reality is that no matter how much I do personally, on my own, it will have a completely negligible effect on the problem.UK carbon emissions are less than 1% of global emissions.

I am one of 66 million people in the UK.On the other hand, how can I encourage, debate or support others to reduce their emissions without being willing to act and experience the process myself.

Taking the wood out of my own eye before I try to take it out of the eyes of others..

The answer, I feel, to the limitation of an individual impact is multiplication.With the right segregation, there are opportunities for waste management companies to work with manufacturers to find both technically and economically sound solutions to recycle back into manufacturing and/or into other supply chains.

Although not without issues, there was a strong sense that further conversations between manufacturers and the waste management industry to create new productive circular economies would be fruitful.. Strategy co-development to identify supplies of new solvents to support growing technologies – and growth in shared geographies – could foster new, efficient, and sustainable solvent supply and recycling routes.. Techno-economic modelling is seen as a vital component in guiding short-, medium and longer-term decision making on solvents.. As the chemical market changes alongside fiscal policies, understanding how to stay cost-effective and adaptable will be important.If this kind of analysis, or at least the insights from it, could be shared widely with the industry it could help accelerate interest and action, particularly in the generics ecosystem..

Problem solving in the room.Prompted by a thought that many players in this arena are waiting for engineering for technical solutions, there was a conversation about the complexity of the problem..