Waste Not
The latest in the growing number of efforts directed at reducing, repurposing and ultimately eliminating waste in all its forms.
How Can Apparel Brands Solve a Problem Like Deadstock?
A growing number of niche brands are finding success with apparel repurposing; but many larger apparel companies have no best practices in place for managing their enormous volumes of unsellable merchandise. Fortunately, a new sub-industry of upcycling partners is stepping in to ‘reimagine’ increasingly large volumes of deadstock.
Airline Industry Chips Away at Climate Impacts with Long-Term Sustainability Initiatives
Cross-Posted from Cleantech. Alaska, Delta share progress on meantime-measures, lofty goals ahead of industry net-zero targets.
Racing to Zero, Part 3: Reimagining Construction for Circularity
Cross-Posted from The Next Economy. The latent circular revolution is slow in getting off the ground in construction — but it’s time to reimagine and transform the industry. Here we explore eight key shifts to help construction actors rise to the circular challenge.
Design for Recycling: High-Tech or Back to Basics?
Cross-Posted from Product, Service & Design Innovation. Maybe before companies spend millions on futuristic high-tech, they should go back to the drawing board and start sketching from a different perspective. Because there is no technology more powerful than the creative mind.
New UN Global Treaty Seeks to Break the ‘Plastic Wave’
Cross-Posted from The Next Economy. We can cut annual flow of plastic into the ocean by 80% in the next 20 years. The technology and will is there, but one important piece of the puzzle is missing — and the UN is hopeful they can pull it together.
From Shores to Shelves: Codifying Ocean Plastic Supply Chains
Cross-Posted from Supply Chain. Brands committed to increasing sustainability by putting ocean plastic to good use deserve the infrastructure and data they need to verify their products and meet the standards that consumers demand.
Why There Won’t Be Quite So Much Waste from the Big Game This Year
From cups and straws to the over 300 million gallons of beer expected to be drunk in the US this weekend, companies are stepping up with innovative solutions to rein in the fallout from one of our most wasteful celebration days of the year.
Mayo x Mayo: Hellmann’s, Jerod Mayo Team Up During the Big Game to Tackle Food Waste
Cross-Posted from Behavior Change. In Hellman’s newest Super Bowl spot, former football player and current coach, Jerod Mayo, shows would-be home food-wasters how they can ‘make taste, not waste.’
Driscoll’s Working to Scale Circular Plastics Economy, from Field to Clamshell
Cross-Posted from Chemistry, Materials & Packaging. Driscoll’s leads the produce industry in increasing the circularity of packaging and landfill diversion of agricultural plastics. It’s the first berry company to make public commitments and inject serious funding into innovation — with a goal to create economies of scale.
US Plastics Pact Unveils List of 11 ‘Problematic and Unnecessary’ Materials to Be Eliminated by 2025
Cross-Posted from Chemistry, Materials & Packaging. The US Pact’s brands, retailers and materials manufacturers are seek to develop immediate solutions to the 11 ubiquitous and unrecyclable materials — but the plastics industry is up in arms.
Lidl, Swiss Scientists Developing Circular Food-Preservation Solution
Cross-Posted from Chemistry, Materials & Packaging. New cellulosic bio-coating for fresh produce greatly reduces both packaging and food waste by coating the produce with, well, produce.
Timberland Gives Worn Items New Life Through Timberloop™ Take-Back Program
Timberloop enables Timberland and its community to work together to keep products and materials in circulation for as long as possible — critical to the company’s goal for 100% of its products to be designed for full circularity by 2030.
PCR & Ocean-Bound Plastic Both Have a Place in Sustainable Beauty
Cross-Posted from Chemistry, Materials & Packaging. Big Plastic (and Big Oil) have a five-decade lead and massive economies of scale that will take a little longer to match in terms of costs and simplicity. But working with the right partners and openness to shaking up the status quo is paying off for brands willing to put their principles and profits on equal footing.
Water Wins: When Sustainability Becomes Part of the Company Culture
Cross-Posted from Organizational Change. “Sustainability is best played together. It's validating to see what we started and see it grow first across the other teams in our plant, and eventually across Lubrizol.” — Kalli Stull
Transforming Plastic Waste into Asphalt: Paving the Way for Sustainable Roads
Cross-Posted from From Purpose to Action: Building a Sustainable Future Together. In order for truly sustainable and circular systems to be realized, every facet of normal life must be re-considered — from the cars we drive to the roads we drive them on.
Biomimicry Institute Awarded €2.5M to Pilot, Scale Decomposition of Textile Waste
The Design for Decomposition initiative is the next step in the Institute’s effort to transform fashion, stopping millions of tonnes of textile waste escaping into the environment each year.
Full-Circle: AZEK Disrupts PVC Recycling by Revolutionizing Takeback
AZEK’s FULL-CIRCLE PVC Recycling program helped it collect approximately 400M pounds of recycled product for reuse in 2020 — with the hope that this entire value-chain approach can disrupt the plastic waste paradigm meaningfully, as AZEK continues to scale up collection and processing.
$1M Innovation Challenge to Fuel Upcycled Solutions to Pomegranate Waste
The Wonderful Company has chosen two winners to create value-added solutions from 50,000 annual tons of pomegranate husks, to reduce food waste and create a more circular supply chain.
Meeting Your Corporate Circularity Commitments: Welcome to the Age of Advanced Recycling
Cross-Posted from From Purpose to Action: Building a Sustainable Future Together. We believe that the solution to stopping plastic waste is understanding that the material is too valuable to be lost in landfills. We can change what is traditionally considered waste and transform it into a valuable, sustainable resource through advanced recycling.
Scaling Reuse Must Include Consensus on Safety, Design, Considerations for Cities
Cross-Posted from The Next Economy. Cities are complex ecosystems that both exacerbate and suffer from the scale of packaging waste. Standards for key areas of design, safety and city programming minimize risk, drive collaboration and provide trustworthy information for stewarding game-changing reuse strategies.
