Axion Launches “Design for Recycling” Service For Plastic Packaging
A new “design for recycling” service, aimed at helping the plastic packaging value chain ensure that placed on the market has been optimised for end of life, while maintaining its primary function of product protection, has been launched. Circular economy company, Axion, says the new service is aimed … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Axion Launches […]
H&M launches sportswear range made from recycled polyester
Circular economy principles, like the ones seen in the new activewear range, will be applied to 80% of H&M store concepts by 2025 and the company is striving to improve the collection of unwanted textiles. Since H&M signed up to the global Garment Collecting initiative in 2013, the group has collected … Source: Circular Economy News […]
Axion launches “Design for Recycling” service
Richard McKinlay, Axion's Head of Circular Economy, underlined: “The spotlight is very much on plastics. Momentum is building as the issue of how we manage packaging waste is climbing up the agendas of every nation.” On the horizon, there's going to be a push on producer responsibility that will … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Axion […]
Arming the workforce for a circular revolution: skills and labour in a circular economy
Arming the workforce for a circular revolution: skills and labour in a circular economy. January 4, 2018. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is in full swing. Enormous leaps in computing, connectivity, and technologies are not only radically changing how we go about our daily lives, but fundamentally … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Arming the workforce for […]
Circular Economy: Safety Concerns
In a circular economy, “resource input and waste, emissions, and energy leakage are minimized by slowing, closing, and narrowing material and energy loops. This can be achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recycling.” [1] Wikipedia Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Circular Economy: Safety Concerns Circular Economy: Safety Concerns
Trending: Circular Sportswear Is Next on Sustainable Fashion's Checklist
“She is using her business to deliver a much bigger message to the world — that of building a circular economy and being mindful of the environment and resources,” judges said during the award presentation. “Helen's work proves that profit doesn't necessarily have to come at an environmental price.” … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Trending: […]
Hefty EnergyBag Program Expands to Idaho, Georgia
These technologies also have the longer-term potential to generate feedstocks in a closed loop system and can be used to produce new plastics, keeping resources in use and at their highest value and thereby helping create a more circular economy. Currently most multi-material flexible plastic … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Hefty EnergyBag Program Expands to […]
CSR Matters: Leading CSR Practitioners Make Predictions for 2018
Much of our work in sustainability and circular economy is driven by the fact that waste is a resource to be harnessed—not thrown away. The circular economy is a huge opportunity for the business community, and we work with them to determine systems and develop partnerships that can remove … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: CSR […]
Foreign Waste Banned In China, Leaving Countries In Crisis
Although the process won't be easy, waste managers in Australia are seeing this challenge posed by the foreign waste ban as an opportunity to build a proper system for a better circular economy. “The real opportunity in Australia is to create that circular economy that's happening overseas,” says Gayle … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Foreign […]
Start-up Banyan Nation in fray for award at WEF
Plastic recycling start-up 'Banyan Nation' has been shortlisted for 'The Circular Economy' award, which will be presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, later this month. The company, the first Indian firm to be shortlisted, has developed a proprietary plastic cleaning technology that converts … Source: Circular Economy News Permalink: Start-up Banyan Nation in fray […]