If the land isn’t worked, it decays: Tunisia’s battle to keep the desert at bay | Environmental sustainability
With vast swaths of Tunisia’s countryside turning to desert, the race is on to ensure there is land left to cultivate…
Will the circular economy transition also boost resilience?
New analysis by Circle Economy confirms the mutually reinforcing nature of the two concepts, but advises caution around some of the circular economy practices, trends, and prerequisites that–if not managed properly–could weaken a system’s resilience.
Waste not, want not: Moving towards the circular economy
The COVID-19 slowdown is a chance to reset our materials economy along more sustainable lines. With the recession having arrived, Australians might be open to rethinking their habit of buying a new item instead of repairing the old.
How Ikea is working to become a fully circular economy business by 2030 – Sustainability
The furniture and homewares group aims to speed up its transition to a circular economy through its strategic partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation…
MIWA’s Circular Economy: Reusable Food Packaging
Food packaging waste is one of the most pervasive yet unavoidable forms of waste. MIWA has created a reusable food packaging and dispensing product with a data driven processing system.I interviewed MIWA’s founder and CEO, Petr Baca, to learn more about it. …
Plastic recycling: could a circular economy be the way to a sustainable future? | The sustainable shelf
Experts often talk about moving our current economy to a circular one – but what does that mean?We look at the possible life cycle of a plastic disinfectant bottle to explore the concept…
Building the digital infrastructure for a circular economy | Greenbiz
Eon, an IoT platform, is working with the fashion companies and retailers to minimize waste and build the infrastructure for circular business models. …
Berlin’s House of Materialisation Is the Circular Economy’s Answer to a Hardware Store
Build and create sustainably with used materials from Berlin’s circular hardware store, Haus der Materialisierung (HdM), created in collaboration with designers, makers and researchers to create a lasting solution to construction waste.
Global partnership with Huhtamaki on circular economy innovation
Huhtamaki and WasteAid announce global partnership to drive community-level circular economy innovation in key locations Global sustainable food packaging leader Huhtamaki and international charity WasteAid have announced a €900,000 (£800,000) partnership to drive community-level circular economy innovation in Vietnam, India and South Africa for a two-year period. To mark its 100-year anniversary, Huhtamaki is donating €3 million to global sustainability initiatives with a local impact – acting today, educating for tomorrow and funding innovation for the future, making a difference where it matters most to help address global sustainability challenges and build circular economy initiatives.
How to Assess Circular Economy projects?
For the #EURegionsWeek, SCREEN and REPLACE projects partnered to present a quick pitch: ‘How to assess circular economy projects?”…
The circular economy: Challenges of turning waste into profit
A recent workshop in Gdansk, Poland, as part of the BONUS RETURN project showcased technological innovations centred around nutrient recovery and reuse in the Baltic Sea region and discussed what’s needed to develop the sector. The phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle and recover” summarizes the idea behind the circular economy. Collaboration between companies or sectors aimed at symbiosis – where waste or waste by-products become a resource for something else – is central to business models that help build a circular economy.
Chemical recycling ‘promising’ for circular economy, EU official says
While chemical recycling opens new possibilities for the circular economy, only a full lifecycle approach will be able to determine the real environmental benefits in terms of saved energy and global warming emissions, a senior EU official has said.
Award for circular economy startups opens for entries
The annual Green Alley Award for businesses that are part of the circular economy is on the hunt for the most innovative ways of tackling Europe’s waste…
Li-Cycle Named to the World Circular Economy Forum’s List of Circular Economy Solutions Inspiring the World
Li-Cycle Corp. (Li-Cycle), a leading lithium-ion battery resource recovery company, today announced that it has been named to Sitra’s Inspiring Circular Economy Solutions from Around the Globe ahead of the 2020 World Circular Economy Forum Online (WCEFonline). The WCEFonline, scheduled to run September 29 and 30, is a fully virtual event that will dive into why and how a circular economy can help to reboot and build resilience in the global economy.
DS Smith to focus on circular design with Ellen MacArthur Foundation
In the past year, DS Smith has worked closely with the Foundation as a pilot partner of its circular economy tool, Circulytics. The tool works to measure circularity in a simple and effective way, allowing for companies to hold a mirror up to their business practices and better their internal processes.
Annual Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference 2020
Save the date: 2020 Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference After some delay due to the COVID-19 crisis, we are pleased to invite you to save…
Planned Obsolescence Versus The Circular Economy
Many products just aren’t built to last and it’s often a deliberate choice by the manufacturers known as planned obsolescence. Now enter the antidote – the circular economy, where products are kept in circulation for as long as possible.
THE SUSTAINABILITY CONSORTIUM JOINS U.S. PLASTICS PACT, COMMITTING TO MEET AMBITIOUS CIRCULAR ECONOMY GOALS BY 2025
Led by The Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund in partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the U.S.Read more »…
Supporting reuse and delivering a circular economy
But what exactly are the implications of donating material in these difficult times? And does it offer an opportunity for us to reconsider the importance of reuse in delivering a circular economy and supporting sustainability?
The rise of the circular economy in the WEEE sector
Louise Grantham, chief executive, REPIC, looks at the impact of Covid-19 and the rise of the circular economy in the WEEE sector, saying the pandemic has highlighted the reliance we place on global supply chains and markets, and their inherent fragility.