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3 Ways the Circular Economy is Vital for the Energy Transition
The circular economy is a system which aims to get the most out of materials, keep products and materials in use and design them to be cycled back into the economy, eliminating waste. It is also a vital pillar of…
Circular Business Models and Smarter Design Can Reduce Environment and Climate Impacts From Textiles
The EEA briefing ‘Textiles and the environment: The role of design in Europe’s circular economy’ provides updated estimates of textiles’ life-cycle impacts on the environment and climate. The briefing shows that, compared with other consumption categories, textiles caused in 2020…
Drawing Disaster-Preparedness Lessons From Tonga’s Volcano
The massive volcanic eruption off the coast of Tonga on 15 January produced a blast hundreds of times the strength of the Hiroshima nuclear explosion, according to NASA. The volcano and subsequent tsunami – which reached the United States, Peru,…
It’s Time to Shift to Net-Zero Emissions Plastics
There are two sides to everything – and that goes for plastics, too. Let’s start with the positive side. Plastics shape and facilitate the whole of modern life. They are found in everything from smartphones to shoe soles, in spectacle…
Ball Uses Recycling to Dominate the Global Market
Every day in the market we see new products being made with only one goal, which is to make our lives easier. Only a few of us would ask how much does manufacturing such new things (that are more or…
How Plastic is Infiltrating the World’s Soils
The images are sobering: dead sea birds and choking turtles caught in the plastic that is increasingly flooding into marine ecosystems. In many parts of the world, this type of plastic pollution has grabbed headlines. Yet there’s a similar environmental blight…
A Solar – Powered Catamaran
Floating islands of waste are real ecological disasters since they endanger water streams, the function of the hydropower plants, and the safe water supply. Moreover, they have a devastating impact on all the living world in the water. That problem…