circular economy

Building construction accounts for a huge chunk of greenhouse gas emissions: About 36 percent of carbon dioxide emissions and 40 percent of energy consumption in Europe, for instance. That’s why the European Union has developed…

Hydrosocial displacement refers to the idea that resolving water conflict in one area can shift the conflict to a different area. The concept was coined by Scott Odell, a visiting researcher in MIT’s…

Washington D.C., Jan. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Identifying significant, but fixable gaps in the U.S. residential recycling system, a new report from The Recycling Partnership (“The Partnership”), a non-governmental organization…

OTTAWA, Jan. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) is pleased to welcome Restaurants Canada, The Association of Plastic Recyclers, and McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada Limited to its expanding network of close to…

"CELSA GROUP TM has the ambition to give infinite lives to finite natural resources. To achieve this, it set the goal to become a zero-waste company. The Circular Transition indicators…

  16/10/2019 - The OECD and the European Commission’s Structural Reform Support Service (SRSS) sealed a new agreement today in Paris that will see the OECD provide wide-ranging policy support to advance…

This briefing aims to improve our understanding of microplastics released from textiles from a European perspective and identify pathways to reduce or prevent this release. The report by the EEA’s European Topic Centre on…

Textiles are identified as a key value chain in the EU circular economy action plan and will be addressed in the forthcoming European Commission’s 2022 EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles and EU sustainable…

Monitoring the circular economy The circular economy is one where ‘the value of products and materials is maintained for as long as possible, and waste and resource use are minimised’, as set out in the European Commission’s…

Impacts from textiles and the role of design and circular business models The EEA briefing ‘Textiles and the environment: The role of design in Europe’s circular economy’ provides updated estimates of textiles’ life-cycle…

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The international discussions under way in the course of this vital year–including July’s Finance for Development Meeting in Addis Ababa, the agreement of a new set of universal Sustainable Development Goals at the UN in September and…

OTTAWA, April 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canada Plastics Pact has released guidance that will support Canadian businesses in adjusting packaging design to contribute to a circular economy for plastics packaging. Tailored to Canadian…

By providing a simple, secure, and free cell phone recycling program, the partnership aims to work towards a sustainable world while also helping support those in need. Press Release - Dec 28, 2021…

Lawmakers fall short in supporting U.S. circular economies and U.S. remanufacturing. Press Release - Mar 9, 2022 CHATSWORTH, Calif., March 9, 2022 (Newswire.com)…