A New Focus for Canon
The Japanese corporation Canon is striving to become a leading force in the circular economy. To ensure a more efficient use of limited resources and reduce waste, Canon is making products...
From Incinerator to Bioplatform
Converting a large industrial plant is never simple, both in economic and environmental terms. The challenge is made all the more difficult when the structure in question is an incinerator in a high...
Circular Seating
Supporting your favourite team with an eye to sustainability and recycling. This has now become a reality for the fans of US Pontedera, a team that plays in Lega Pro, the third tier of Italian footb...
A Long-Running Challenge
Success is never the result of the efforts of a single individual. Even great solo sailors like Ellen MacArthur and Giovanni Soldini require the contribution of planners and experts to successfully ...
Advanced Learning is the Key to Green Jobs
For over thirty years, the “European Capital of Culture” initiative has aimed to promote the contribution of culture to urban development. Matera, the capital of Italy’s Basilicata...
Integration: A Winning Formula
Itelyum, an industrial hub officially created at the beginning of 2019 by Stirling Square’s private equity fund, is the result of an integration of 16 companies around two Viscolube hubs &ndas...
A Circular Green New Deal
This coloured history includes Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, a work of literary and personal discovery, John Muir’s conservationism, Rachel Carson’s denouncement of pesticides in Silent Spring...
Onwards Europe!
We are encountering a global sustainability crisis that has three dimensions: the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis and the crisis caused by the overuse of natural resources. For tackling thes...
Here Comes Loop
“The key thesis statement is we can’t just recycle our way out of the garbage crisis.” Tom Szaky, TerraCycle’s CEO and co-founder, has a radical view of the circular economy: “We need foun...
Upscaling the Circular Transition
During the WCEF2019, which brings together key circular economy thinkers and doers from around the world, we met with Professor Hans Bruyninckx, Executive Director of the European Environm...
Make America Circular
Minneapolis is a progressive city, rising from the gentle banks of the Mississippi river, in the Upper Midwestern state of Minnesota. For many years the city was famous for its skyways, enclosed foo...
Google Revolution
Greenbiz Group – Circularity 19 This article is adapted from the newsletter Circular Weekly, www.greenbiz.com/article/conversation-googles-circularity-maven-cso-kate-bra...
The US Bioeconomy
Renewable and cheap raw materials galore, world-leading agricultural and forestry sectors, strong support for innovation, large companies with rich portfolios, specialised start-ups, a highly advant...
The Needs of Green Chemistry
The transition of the classical chemical sector based on fossil feedstock such as coal, oil and gas, to greener chemistries, based on renewable feedstock, holds an enticing perspective for CO2 reduc...
WCEF19's Mission: Transform the Global Economy
The World Circular Economy Forum 2019 edition, third part of the Finland-born event, showed the “circular” world’s vitality and complexity. Established in 2017 by SITRA – the...
Intelligent Plastic Designed for Chemical Circularity
The Brett Helms Research Group, part of the California-based Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has synthesised a new type of plastic polymer – poly(diketoenamine)s or PDKs – that ca...
Investing With Little Vision
To begin with, some clarity: what is a multilateral development bank (MDB)? MDBs are financial institutions founded by one or two countries with the goal of aiding economic development in poorer nat...
High-Quality Recycled PlasticÂ
Each year, eight million tonnes of plastic end up in the sea. An amount that is bound to double in the next twenty years and quadruple by 2050. It is as if a lorry load of plastic were dumped in the...
New Life to Plastic and Industry 4.0. A Boost for the Circular Economy
The green revolution has already started: that of the circular economy, innovative recovery of materials and solutions to problems plaguing our planet. This is what Ecomondo has been narrating, show...
Circular Economy Club Launches the Circular Cities Week
LONDON – The Circular Economy Club (CEC) has announced it will celebrate its global “Circular Cities Week” event from October 28th to November 3rd, 2019. The goal of the event: pus...