Sector: Recycling · Textiles, apparel and leather · http://www.ivl.se/english/startpage/top-menu/pressroom/press-releases/press-rele… The research institute IVL has developed a new technology that may revolutionize textile recycling. It consists on sorting effectively clothes or other fabrics based on …
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The Council's vision for promoting eco-innovation in the coming years will be approved by the end of the year, reflecting the expectations of member states and their contributions to moving towards a circular economy. The last month of the Estonian presidency will see more than 10 Council sessions …
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Huang Wei-cher notes that, as natural resources are gradually becoming depleted, the circular economy has become ever more important. He urges Taisugar to design a supply chain for biomaterials made of processed oyster shells as soon as possible, and to work with the ITRI in training local …
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SBN chief executive Rachel Brown said the growing pressure on resources such as water, proved a need for New Zealand's economy to become "circular". A circular economy meant maximising the life cycle of materials and continuously reusing them, rather than taking, making and disposing of them, …
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In practice, through a life-cycle approach, it leads to minimizing impact on environment & the associated societal burdens, transforming 'waste' into 'resources' fostering circular economy, and strengthening resource security. Ms. Henriette Faergemann, EU Counsellor, Environment, Energy & Climate …
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In this work, the principles of circular economy are applied to concrete branches of engineering. Departing from a design orientated to new uses after life period of infrastructures, a circular economy-aimed engineering makes possible the connection and mutual profit of such different branches like waste …
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stronger link between engineering and circular economy. Keywords: sustainability; lighting; waste management; infrastructures; energy savings; raw materials; CO2 emission; circular economy. 1. Introduction. Engineering has traditionally followed a linear pattern based on design-production-use-waste.
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Focusing on the business ecosystem modeling work, the report has introduced crystallised vision of a higher-level system that enables the textiles industry to operate according to the basic principles of a circular economy. The report has been published by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
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The Powering the Change conference was held from November 15-17 in Adelaide, South Australia. Objective: accelerate the transition to the circular economy.
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