Nick Oettinger, MD and founder of The Furniture Recycling Group, discusses the importance of implementing Extended Producer Responsibility schemes across all industries and looks…
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The Body Shop will be providing sustainability lessons for teachers. The Body Shop Educational Programme, which is a free resource linked to the school curriculum, created by teachers, for teachers.
Our cities are the main drivers of the world’s economic output, but they are also massive consumers and account for 60-80% of energy consumption and 75% of carbon emissions. If we want to reach the goals of the Paris agreement and keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, we need to focus on…
Blue o two will no longer carry plastic bottles on its liveaboards in the Red Sea.
This year’s International E-Waste Day (#ewasteday), taking place on 14 October, will focus on the crucial part each of us, as consumers and as citizens, has in making circularity a reality for e-products. According to the UN, in 2021 each person on the planet will produce on average 7.6 kg of e-waste, meaning that a massive 57.4 million tonnes will be generated worldwide. Only 17.4 per cent of this electronic waste containing a mixture of harmful substances and precious materials will be recorded as being properly collected, treated and recycled. Many initiatives are undertaken to tackle this growing concern, but none of them can be fully effective without the active role and correct education of consumers.
Sustainable tourism: which are the most pressing issues and topics to be addressed in 2020? Our panel of travel and tourism experts has answers.
EU member states need to integrate resilience into their national recovery plans in order to be eligible for recovery support, write Joke Dufourment, Natalia Papu and Yasmina Lembachar. Joke Dufourmont is the circular jobs initiative lead at Circle Economy, an Amsterdam-based not-for-profit organisation. Natalia Papu is a researcher and analyst at Circle Economy, and Yasmina Lembachar is the digital communications lead at Circle Economy. The new Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) paves a promising road towards circular value chains and the mainstreaming of renewable, regenerative and cyclable resources.