Kit Willow pursues a passion for nature and style through her company’s sustainable artisan-made fashion designs. Kitx is born “from a spirit of kindness, integrity and transparency, [while] the X represents the future.” The clothing utilizes a range of colors, patterns, rectangle-based drips and fits with playful twists of macramé lace and linens, made from flax.
Armstrong Flooring company has reached a milestone via its On&On Recycling Program: The company has recycled more than 100 million pounds of post-consumer flooring materials, and kept 50,000 tons of materials out of landfills. “Sustainable consumption and production is about promoting resource and energy efficiency and that is exactly what our On&On Recycling Program does. It diverts material from the landfill and reduces resource use, degradation and pollution along the whole lifecycle,” said Amy Costello, Sustainability Manager, Armstrong Flooring. “The On&On Recycling Program enables our products to have lower environmental footprints while supporting our commitment to circular economy principles and closed-loop manufacturing.”
A collaboration between a renewable oil producer and a UK-based plastic recycling specialist is seeking to “revolutionise the way that plastic waste is treated around the globe”. In mid-August Teesside-based ReNew ELP and Finnish refinery giant Neste signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see both companies work together to capitalise on the value of waste plastic as a raw material feedstock for the production of liquid hydrocarbons, chemicals and new plastics. In Europe, around 27 million tonnes of post-consumer plastic waste is generated each year. Approximately a third is currently collected for recycling, with the remainder either landfilled, incinerated or dumped, polluting vulnerable ecosystems.
Burberry burned $37.8M of its own clothing to keep it out of the “wrong” hands. Second-hand fashion reseller ThredUp called out their environmental irresponsibility in an open letter offering to sell Burberry overstock and donate proceeds to an environmental charity.
A British company says their bags biodegrade to nothing, but not everyone is convinced.
From infrastructure and communication to food production and transport, tourism and construction play key roles in a circular economy framework that supports sustainable development. The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), together with the Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme of the…
‘We will practice what we preach. Stricter even,’ Cebu City Mayor Tommy Osmeña says about the ban, which will begin on August 1
The Council adopted conclusions on the circular economy, discussed proposals to update EU-wide rules on CO2 emissions standards for cars and vans, as well as the rules on the quality of water for human consumption.
Protecting the places we love. Eliminating single-use plastics in the Seacoast’s restaurant industry | Check out ‘Sustainable Seacoast’ on Indiegogo.
Skidmore Owings and Merrill have proposed a sustainable skyscraper design in Paris, France. At 180 meters high, the structure is rumored to be “one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe.” The master plan for the project does not only incorporate smart technology and zero-energy frameworks, but it also seeks to establish a direct connection with nature though green balconies, a sky garden and an accessible bridge to the River Seine. In between the tower and the bridge, SOM plans for a LED-lit “timber-framed rotunda.”
Backpacks made out of recycled single-use plastic bottles are helping children in the Peruvian Andes. Watch this short video to learn more about this creativ…
Indian IT company Infosys embraces sustainability and on #WorldEnvironmentDay 2018 pledges to ban all single-use plastics in their operations by 2020. World …
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Most plastics carry a recycling label, but few are convenient to recycle in Switzerland. For 30 days, swissinfo.ch journalist Susan Misicka saved all of her plastic garbage. She filled four shopping bags, but found that not even half of the waste could be recycled. Is it as bad as it sounds? Currently, the Swiss collect 80,000 tonnes of plastic for recycling – mainly PET drink bottlesExternal link, plus milk, shampoo, detergent and other high-quality bottles. In theory, Switzerland could recycle an additional 112,000 tonnes of plastic per year. Put another way, everyone in Switzerland could collect and recycle another 14kg of plastic per year. But there is no federal system and few processing plants for recycling plastic in Switzerland.
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The sale of cotton buds, plastic drinking straws and other items could really become a thing in 2019….
The sale of cotton buds, plastic drinking straws and other items could really become a thing in 2019….
Taxes or deposit return schemes – how can we use economics to incentivise more recycling?Richard McKinlay, Head of Circular Economy at resource recovery specialist Axion, discusses the options…