Earth Day in Ireland: List of the main events this weekend
Circular economy explained. The Rediscovery Centre in Ballymun, Dublin is offering free information tours (at 11am and 3pm on Saturday). Located in the recently re-purposed Ballymun Boiler House, it “challenges conventional thinking about how we live, stimulates positive environmental behavioural … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Earth Day in Ireland: List of the main events this […]
TheRealReal, Stella McCartney Flaunt High-Fashion Recycling
For now, it's is limited to its partnership with Stella McCartney, although it hopes other designers will be inspired to adopt “circular economy” initiatives. Many brands are, in fact, working on efforts to reduce the impact of textiles: Americans throw away about 70 pounds of clothing and other fabrics each … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: […]
Earth Day 2018 – Putting an End to Plastic Pollution
The concept of the circular economy is to embrace these small adjustments, by developing habits and solutions that build on each other to create resilient systems. As an example of how this can work, the City of North Battleford, Saskatchewan was, at one time, overwhelmed by odor, regulatory and … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Earth […]
Luxury fashion and circularity
Stella McCartney is spearheading a new Earth Day campaign to raise awareness of the circular economy within the luxury fashion industry. The fashion icon has featured a number of times on these pages for her commitment to accelerating the adoption of circular economy principles across the industry. Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Luxury fashion and […]
World's first circular fashion master's degree to launch
AMFI is the largest fashion institute in the Netherlands and has an international reputation for sustainability. Its 'Reality School' concept, into which the circular economy strategy will be integrated, drives innovation within all of the school's programmes to accommodate and respond rapidly to industry … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: World's first circular fashion master's degree […]
Creagh: Brexit a 'big legal problem' for recycling targets
“The circular economy package sets a target of 65% by 2035 – who monitors and enforces that if the European Commission and the European Court of Justice are the not the legal backstops on that? “There is no body in this country that can do that and that creates a big legal problem and that's … […]
How offices can do more to improve sustainability
Sustainability experts frequently talk about the circular economy, basically an effort to keep a finished good from ending up in a landfill, and the product instead being recycled, after its usefulness has run dry, into a new product. “It drives you back to thinking about whether I buy this as a good, or do I […]
Fuorisalone 2018, WASTE NO MORE at Ventura Centrale
Eileen Fisher and Edelkoort Exhibitions present WASTE NO MORE in the galleries of Ventura Centrale at the 2018 Fuorisalone, exploring the theme of the circular economy referred to the fashion system as a response to the huge environmental impact of the textile and apparel industry. Facebook … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Fuorisalone 2018, WASTE NO […]
New strategies for building BoP ecosystem
Beyond Environmental Degradation: Toward BoP Circular Economy Strategies. Beyond Pipelines: Toward BoP Platform Strategies. Beyond Selling to the Poor: Toward BoP Market Engagement Strategies. The session during these 3 strategies was based on creative ways to build more effective … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: New strategies for building BoP ecosystem New strategies for building BoP […]
New Tigard recycling plant wants your plastic waste
“It's the first of its kind to create that circular economy for plastic waste,” Desmarteu said. The process is complicated but widely applicable; and it doesn't matter if the materials are dirty. “We're able to take all these different types of material, from rigid to foam … doesn't even matter if there's a bit of […]