Julia Albert
In my reflection on the CEEC, I comment on the importance of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), meaning the responsibility of companies to manage to end-of-life the products they sell into the marketplace. In the video I co-curated for Global Health Day, our interviewee Dr. Olea-Popelka compares the collectivistic action needed to deal with COVID-19 to the societal collaboration needed to combat climate change.
Although Queens and Western have long been rivals, I felt welcomed and inspired upon attending their Commerce and Engineering Environmental Conference (CEEC). The fact that students from rivalling schools came together to address the urgent issue of climate change and collaborated to generate innovative solutions to our current crisis is a symbol of the collectivistic action needed from our global community. Members of varying backgrounds - culturally, socio-economically, etc. must recognize that climate change affects everyone, meaning its solution involves everyone too. I hope that more students from Western attend the conference this year and in years to come.
In my reflection on the CEEC, I comment on the importance of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), meaning the responsibility of companies to manage to end-of-life the products they sell into the marketplace. In the video I co-curated for Global Health Day, our interviewee Dr. Olea-Popelka compares the collectivistic action needed to deal with COVID-19 to the societal collaboration needed to combat climate change.