Introducing the RUBICONMethod—6 Steps for Successful Recycling and Waste Reduction
As a Certified B Corporation, Rubicon's mission is to solve the global issue of waste and create a more circular economy. Rubicon's goal is to help businesses, organizations and local governments confidently execute on their sustainability goals, always with an eye towards executing solutions that have … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Introducing the RUBICONMethod—6 Steps […]
Achieving circularity with collaboration
A plastics Circular Economy will be achieved faster if stakeholders collaborate. … The deal makes LyondellBasell a 50/50 partner in QCP with SUEZ and marks the first time that a major plastics company has joined forces with a leader in waste management to contribute to circular economy objectives. Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Achieving circularity […]
Taiwan President vows to advance science talent cultivation in Taiwan
It targets the five emerging and high-growth sectors of biotech and pharmaceuticals, green energy, national defense, smart machinery and Internet of Things, as well as focuses on promotion of two core concepts: circular economy and a new paradigm for agricultural development. Of equal importance … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Taiwan President vows to advance science […]
20 more brands commit to the CanopyStyle initiative
CanopyStyle partners are also prioritising the development of next-generation solutions such as alternative fibres and circular economy sourcing. "The addition of 20 brands and designers from three continents is a clear signal of CanopyStyle's continued and strengthening momentum around the world," … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: 20 more brands commit to the CanopyStyle initiative 20 […]
A plan for plastics
Last month, the Commission put forward one the most eagerly anticipated environmental files of this term. The plastics strategy is the culmination of years of data-gathering and preliminary measures. It was first envisioned by the circular economy action plan in 2015 which came along with a ban on free … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: A […]
Advancing Circular Economy
The present report concerns the practical process of developing initiatives based on the circular economy in eight Danish companies. The report outlines how the process of ad-vancing circular economy during 2014 and 2015 was approached in each of the participat-ing companies and what came out … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Advancing Circular Economy Advancing Circular […]
25 years of Sustainability in Action – 25 years of RIGK
There are good grounds for everyone to celebrate this anniversary as RIGK has been promoting the concept of a circular economy with increasing success ever since. As a middleman between distributors and end users, it helps to ensure that used plastics packaging and agricultural plastics products … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: 25 years of Sustainability […]
'We need to go much further, much faster,' in changes to packaging urges Unilever chief.
Unilever.jpg Consumer goods giant, Unilever have issues a call to their industry to step-up its efforts to tackle the mounting challenge of ocean plastic waste and create a circular economy for plastics. For the bio-based industry there are major opportunities to be found here in developing new materials to … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: 'We […]
FEAD calling for lower or zero VAT rates on recycled content following European Commission …
… organisation is supporting the choice for Member States to choose their own categories, it hopes to see recycled products being selected. It believes that the reduced rate will be “an excellent supportive measure to help realising circular economy's goals” and also raise awareness among consumers. Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: FEAD calling for lower […]
FEAD welcomes proposal on VAT
Now it will be up to the Council acting unanimously to give the green light to the Commission's proposals, with the perspective that reduced VAT on targeted products or services can be in the future an excellent supportive measure to help realising circular economy's goals and benefits, by promoting … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: FEAD […]