Circular mining reaches for the mainstream
Cobalt. Copper. Lithium. Nickel. Platinum. Zinc. And don’t forget the rare earth elements, especially neodymium. These and dozens of other metals and minerals are critical for technologies central...
Stakeholder Conference 2022: the European circular economy under the mark of a double emergency
Talking about circular economy has never been more pressing. If the conflict in Ukraine and the international crisis seem to have put the climate and environmental emergencies of the planet on the b...
Terra Next: an Innovation Accelerator in Napoli for the Italian Bioeconomy
The Italian bioeconomy restarts from the South. The new Terra Next accelerator for start-ups has been launched in Napoli and will become an innovation hub for the entire sector. Promoted by Intesa S...
The world is craving lithium, and geothermal could relieve it. But at what impact?
Cesano is a small town located in the volcanic region of the Sibillini mountains, near Rome. In 1975 Enel discovered a geothermal fluid in the roots of this land that is particularly interesting for...
New IPCC report: adaptation is not keeping pace with climate impact
Lasting and devastating impacts on our society. Massive human losses and economic damage. We are not talking about the war in Ukraine, but the long escalation of humanity against itself linked to cl...
Let’s re...play! Ideas for a circular economy of toys
How short is the life of a toy? From The Steadfast Tin Soldier to Toy Story, many storytellers have sung the tale of the ephemeral, however shiny, existence of dolls, puppets and spaceships. From ki...
Ten years of European bioeconomy: Chris Patermann talks about the goals and challenges
Chris Patermann is considered the father of the European bioeconomy and is still a central figure in the global bioeconomy community. In this exclusive interview, 10 years after the first Bioeconomy...
Ratti: Circular and Digital Innovation for the Great Textile Tradition
Ratti, a company listed on the Milan stock exchange, produces textiles and accessories for luxury and fashion brands. A leader in the realms of design and print technology, with legendary cultural h...
Covid? It Can Act as a Booster towards Fashion Circularity
For fashion companies, whether large or small; the switch to the circular economy is inevitable. And the Covid pandemic has sped up the whole process.We’ve read, in its every possible form, that t...
A system to be rethought in style
As well as being a country with great designers and couture, Italy has always been the homeland of artisans and companies that can bring to life the ideas and visions of the most prestigious fashion...
Circular Fashion: How Is the Revolution Coming Along?
Eliminating hazardous substances, reducing raw material consumption and radically changing recycling and also thanks to changes in consumption patterns, fashion brands are making progress in all the...
Fashion is Out of Fashion
Fashion is a bizarre subject. The terms stems from the Latin facere (do, make) and through Old French façon to Middle English fashion, and in its multiple senses means manner, appearance, make or s...
Europe: Digital Product Passport is Coming Soon
The Sustainable Products Initiative, included in the new Circular Economy Action Plan and one of the goals of the Green Deal, plans to establish a digital product passport (DPP) that collects data o...
Recycling Covid masks: here are those who attempt it around the world
Sanitary masks have been keeping us company for almost two years now. Every day we buy them, we wear them to protect us from the virus, and finally we throw them away when they exhaust their functio...
Circularity Gap Report 2022: only 8.6% of the global economy is circular
Five hundred billion tons. That's the amount of resources consumed globally over the past six years, between COP21 in Paris in 2015 and COP26 in Glasgow. The sum was calculated by the think-tank Cir...
Cement: the Most Destructive Material in the World or a Driver of Progress?
We use over 4 billion tonnes of cement each year, and almost 3 billion tonnes of CO2 are emitted to manufacture it. And yet, we cannot do without this material. This is how companies are working to ...
Circular fashion: the Retex Green consortium for the management of textile waste in Italy is born
The year 2022 opens with good news for the circular transition of the fashion industry in Italy. Faced with the new obligation to separate collection of textile waste, which came into force on Janua...
Biodiversity, the great challenge of 2022. What are the lessons for politics and businesses?
In 2021, we've been looking hard at the financial and industrial revolution related to decarbonization. Not a day goes by that we don't talk about taxonomy, carbon disclosure, energy efficiency, Sco...
Will battery swapping be the next revolution in the electrical vehicle scene?
One of the biggest challenges to electrifying a fleet of vehicles — aside from adjusting to the range and limitations of the vehicles themselves — is building up the expensive charging infrastru...
We need timber to build on the momentum of COP26
Cut through the political noise and we can see that COP26 was a symbolic moment for the built environment. Reducing whole building-lifecycle emissions is now firmly established as an essential organ...