Assets About Circular Economy
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‘Clean Beauty’ Is Just a Pipe Dream If Sustainability Gets Left Behind
Every year, 3B trees are turned into paper packaging for the products we buy — including for many ‘clean’ beauty brands. These brands must take the same holistic approach to their packaging as their ingredients. ... View More
2023 Design Trends: Balancing the Beautiful with the Responsible
The balance between luxury and sustainability has set a new bar for luxury packaging, making us all stop and think about how we can do things differently. ... View More
BIER Guides Beverage Companies on Water Circularity
The Guide provides easy-to-follow processes, as well as important considerations when pivoting focus from on-site techniques to off-site circularity endeavors. ... View More
Will Mill Be a Game-Changing Solution to Home Food Waste?
The Mill system offers a practical, circular solution for reducing home food waste and the resulting, climate-changing greenhouse gases — with minimal effort on the part of users. ... View More
Trending: Reports Call for Fashion to End Its Wicked Ways
New reports by Zero Waste Europe and Planet Tracker slam the industry for piecemeal attempts at sustainability and circularity; where it fails to adopt more holistic approaches and take greater responsibility for environmental and social issues, inve... View More
Turning Plastic into Possibility: How Closing the Loop in Asia-Pacific Is Building Waste Infrastructure for the Future
The region continues to face waste challenges. But with the right solutions, Asia-Pacific has a huge opportunity to turn the tide — finding more value in post-consumer plastic and closing the loop on waste. ... View More
Moving Toward a Circular Economy for Packaging
A circular economy for plastics is achievable in our lifetime, though it will require consumers and manufacturers to work together. Whether companies decide to keep it in-house or partner with like-minded third parties, an investment in our future no... View More
H&M’s 'Loooptopia' Metaverse Experience Rewards Players for Creating Circular Fashion
The new H&M Loooptopia Experience on Roblox allows users to experiment with their digital identity and learn about fashion and circularity in a fun, creative and playful environment. ... View More
Panasonic, Samsung Unveil Latest Sustainability Innovations at CES 2023
The electronics giants announced a series of innovations including personal-care device recycling, smart home energy-efficiency improvements, and a new laundry cycle and filter designed to eliminate microplastic pollution from synthetic materials. ... View More
The New Reuse Economy: What’s Working (and Not Working) on the Quest for a Packaging Waste-Free Future
While recycling and lightweighting packaging strategies are helpful, they still align more with a linear rather than circular economy. Here, Upstream CEO Matt Prindiville lays out his organization’s vision for a truly plastic waste-free future. ... View More
Putting Recycling to Work for People, Communities and the Planet
To create a truly circular ecosystem for plastics, we need scalable innovations to close the gap between what consumers can recycle now and which plastics might become a regular part of a future recycling system. ... View More
Stella McCartney to Pilot Mixed-Textile Recycling Venture
Protein Evolution’s technology can turn unused polyester and nylon fabrics from Stella McCartney’s previous collections into good-as-new, infinitely recyclable fibers — and could present a new circular solution for the fashion industry. ... View More
Give Greater: The 2022 SB Holiday Gift Guide
As always, the goal of our gift guide is to encourage a more conscious approach to gift-giving by highlighting products, services and experiences that create value and benefits beyond short-term gratification for the recipient. Here’s this year’s... View More
Opinion: Why Some Big Brands ‘Aren’t Convinced’ by Plastic Credits
80M tons of plastic waste will end up in the environment just in the next 10 years. Without voluntary, global producer responsibility programs to unlock capital towards infrastructure and bridge the policy vacuum, how else do polluters suggest for us... View More
Creating Life from Death: Transcend Attempts to Reverse the Environmental Impacts of Burial
The new startup offers a regenerative ‘tree burial’ service that reimagines cemeteries as forests — enabling the dearly departed to truly give back to the land and encouraging younger generations to think about death in new ways. ... View More
A Completely Different Definition of ‘Waste’: 5 Key Takeaways from the Sustainability Next Summit
Last month, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics and Fast Company co-hosted the virtual summit to convene policy experts, industry leaders and innovators with the expertise and resources to drive real progress toward a circular economy. ... View More
New Marketplace Matches Tesco Suppliers to Swap Surplus Stock to Cut Costs, Reduce Waste
Tesco Exchange, aka ‘Tesco Tinder,’ matches suppliers who have too much of a product — for example, crops, byproducts, ingredients or packaging — with other Tesco suppliers that can put it to use. ... View More
Meet 2 Biomaterial Startups Cultivating a Circular, Climate-Friendlier Fashion Industry
Orange Fiber and Keel Labs are platforms for exploration and innovation that can reverberate across the fashion industry and prove that sustainable feedstocks and production processes can create both financial and planetary prosperity. ... View More
6 Principles for Building a Pathway to Circularity for Plastics
Developing and optimizing a fully circular plastics value chain is a complex challenge that can’t be achieved with any single solution. We challenge our peers and other key stakeholders to be courageous and take risks, to explore new possibilities ... View More
Closing the Loop: Rethinking Operations, the Economy to Save the Planet
Whether making a widget or a culinary treat, prioritizing a circular life cycle for products helps keep them out of waste streams until they are negligible — or better yet, they never land there. ... View More
