Could this ‘biodegradable bag’ cut plastic pollution?
A British company says their bags biodegrade to nothing, but not everyone is convinced.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
A British company says their bags biodegrade to nothing, but not everyone is convinced.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I dislike the word waste,” says Simone Post. “We should regard every material, and that includes waste, as a new source of material.” The Dutch expert demonstrated what she meant with her graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven: She developed an upcycling concept for offcuts of material that she then fashions into circular rugs. The leftovers and rejects come from the production lines at textile manufacturer Vlisco, a company known for its highly colorful and extravagantly patterned fabrics made using a complex wax technique. “The big difference between upcycling and recycling is that with upcycling as part of the circular economy the material is imbued with greater value,” says the designer. By contrast, recycling might mean that a fabric involving a complex manufacturing process is later only used to make insulating boards.
Multidisciplinary practice SuperSpatial was selected as one of the 6 finalists for the South Korean Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.
Ian Carstairs from Scottish Enterprise talks about the benefits of sustainable business practises and shares 5 tips that will help you build resilience, reduce costs and protect your business from risks.
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This is a guest post by Penny Polson, Carmen McLeod, Sarah Hartley and Eleanor Hadley Kershaw *** Introduction to the Circular Economy The notion of a ‘circular economy’ has been gaining a lot of traction lately.
Active portfolio management and successfully meeting the need for more sustainable products and solutions, including in high-growth markets in China and the rest of Asia, are key to success and value creation in the specialty chemical sector, said Clariant CEO Conrad Keijzer in a keynote presentation at Chemical Week’s first-ever Specialty Strategies Forum, held online 14 April.
“In the last 10 years, Clariant has successfully repositioned its portfolio from a diversified, in part commodity-driven business, towards a focused and truly specialty chemicals business,” Keijzer said.