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Business, NGO Leaders Stress the Need for the Circular Economy in New Short Film
A new 18-minute documentary film, Circularity: Preparing for the New Economy, calls for a radical overhaul of current economic systems. Featuring commentary from a number of business analysts, the film provides an overview of what the “circular eco... View More
How Big Brands, Small Startups Have Partnered to Push the Circular Economy
“It didn’t make sense to me — to make a bunch of products that use a lot of materials, and then throw it away,” Scott Hamlin, co-founder at Looptworks, said during a Tuesday breakout session on partnerships in the circular economy at Sustaina... View More
IFF Goes Circular with New Sustainability Strategy, Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Fragrance
International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. (IFF), a leading producer of “sensory experiences that move the world,” has released its 2015 sustainability results in a report, Creating a Sustainable Future, and announced the launch of a new sustai... View More
The Virtuous Circle Business Model: Social Purpose at the Core of Business Success
Mention the term “corporate social responsibility” and you might hear something like: “It’s dead.” “CSR has stalled.” “CSR has not fulfilled its potential. It has failed us.” Why? Because even at its best, CSR is only a partial solu... View More
How Cisco Is Using Its Unique Capabilities to Drive Breakthroughs in Supply Chain Sustainability
As the world’s largest designer, manufacturer and seller of networking equipment, Cisco Systems faces many supply chain sustainability issues, including energy, waste and climate change impacts, among others. To address these challenges, Cisco has ... View More
Forget Incremental Improvements: 40 Companies, Cities Working to Activate New Plastics Economy
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy initiative kicks off today with an inaugural workshop that brings together more than 40 leading companies including Amcor, Coca-Cola, The Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, Indorama Ventures, Marks &... View More
Trending: Levi’s, EU Project Unlock New Ways to Turn Textile Waste Into New Products
With dramatically large amounts of clothing and other textiles being thrown out every year – nearly 10 million tonnes in the United States and more than 3 million tonnes in European Union (EU) countries – it is no wonder why designers and compani... View More
Dow Teams Up to Advance Renewable Energy, Circular Economy Goals
This week, The Dow Chemical Company launched two new partnerships aimed at advancing two of its seven 2025 Sustainability Goals, launched last year. ... View More
Report: $3.5B+ Business Opportunity in Scaling Up Circular System for Plastics
Plastic has many benefits ranging from reducing food waste by providing packaging to cutting transport pollution due to its light weight. However, waste plastic is undervalued by the economy due to externalization of environmental costs. In a new dis... View More
#BusinessCase: Circular Economy Helping Nike Double Its Business with Half the Impact
On Wednesday, leading apparel and footwear brand Nike released its latest sustainability report and was announced as the newest Global Partner of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Nike has made impressive progress during a period of continued growth, a... View More
WEF Report Outlines 30 Steps to a Circular Construction Industry
The construction industry has been slower than most to adopt technological innovations, which has stagnated the sector’s labor productivity in the United States and elsewhere in the last 40 years. At the same time, the construction industry is the ... View More
Why Recycling Will Be a Last Resort in a Truly Circular Economy
The circular economy represents a fundamental shift in the way resources, energy and information flow through our economy. A key characteristic of this framework is that products and components remain at their highest levels of integrity and performa... View More
Trending: Levi Strauss, MIT Partnerships Advancing Textile Innovations
As Levi’s VP of Social and Environmental Sustainability, Michael Kobori, said last year in a blog post, along with a long-standing partnership with Goodwill to divert clothing from landfill and take-back programs for apparel for recycling into ever... View More
Walmart, SunPower, Tarkett Join Circular Economy 100 USA Network
In February, the U.K.-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) announced the launch of a U.S. network to run in parallel with the Foundation’s successful international Circular Economy 100 (CE100) programme. Today, the CE100 USA network of business l... View More
Report: The Importance of the Circular Economy to Business Expected to Double In Next Two Years
Logistics Are Critical to Implementing a Sustainable Circular Strategy ... View More
Trending: New Materials, Traceability Could Help Mould Circular Economy for Plastics
With the opportunity to curb over $80 billion in annual industry losses, a circular economy for plastics seems pretty appealing. Several projects in Europe are working to make this happen: Earlier this month, Sustainable Brands covered a collaborativ... View More
#PerfectlyGood Campaign Aiming to End Label Confusion, Save the UK £50M in Food Waste Costs
The UK is the epicenter of the circular economy movement, with both the public and private sectors making sweeping commitments and headway toward eliminating waste of all kinds throughout its economy. ... View More
Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Circular Economy 100 Program Comes Stateside, Lands in Arizona
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) has launched a U.S. chapter of its Circular Economy 100 (CE100) program, which brings together leading organizations with the objective of innovating, developing and implementing circular economy opportunities. ... View More
Trending: Zero-Waste Ale, Restaurant Save Food From Landfills in the UK
Food waste has been one of the trendiest topics in sustainability of late, as more and more people have become aware that as much as one third of the world’s food is being wasted. The UN set a target to halve global food waste as one of the Sustain... View More
Novelis' Recycled Aluminum Builds Jaguar's Lightest, Most Aerodynamic Sedan
Novelis, world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, has partnered with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to supply aluminum sheet for the recently launched Jaguar XE — “Jaguar’s most advanced sports saloon.”The REALCAR (REcycled ALuminium CAR) pro... View More
