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Waste and Recycling

October 2015

  • Josh Prigge Fetzer Vinyards

    Business sustainability: tales from the front lines
    Becoming a B Corp: only for the sustainable elite?

  • food waste trash garbage

    Supply chain
    US food industry backs government plan to aggressively cut food waste

September 2015

  • Discarded plastic bottles made of high density polyethylene waiting to be recycled

    Circular economy
    Coke, Walmart and others kick off $100m recycling fund with three new projects

    The Closed Loop Fund has has revealed its first projects in Ohio, Iowa and Baltimore as it seeks to boost dismal US recycling rates

May 2015

  • Personal wipes have become the bane of sewage systems everywhere now that adults are using them. The industry is starting to develop more easily degradable products in response.

    Values-led business
    Don't believe the label 'flushable': disposable wipes clog sewers around the world

    Grownups are now using the same wipes once reserved for babies, leading to millions of dollars of sewer problems. A New York City bill takes aim at the lack of transparency – and mislabeling – some say is to blame

March 2015

  • GSB: systems thinking video still

    Systems thinking
    Why a 10,000 mile round trip for cod just doesn't make sense

    This tale of unsustainable fishing practices and innovative surf companies demonstrates that successful businesses are both possible and profitable when companies look beyond the short term and consider their wider impacts

February 2015

  • Giant panda Yuan Yuan seen with its baby Yuan Zai at Taipei Zoo

    Circular economy
    Poo power: fuel, lampshades, paper and other useful things made from waste

    From horse manure to panda poo, animal waste can build our furniture and fuel our cars

January 2015

  • Harry Potter

    Circular economy
    Six ways graphene could make the world a greener place

  • plastic in the oceans

    Water
    We could end up with 'as much plastic in our oceans as fish'

December 2014

  • Nappies

    Circular economy
    Circular economy: the top five stories of 2014

  • California solar project PG&E

    Supply chain
    Top business sustainability trends of 2014

November 2014

  • Materials Innovation

    Rethinking resources
    Can materials innovation save the world? - video

  • Pumpkin

    Sustainable food
    From pumpkins to policies: engaging in sustainable food behaviour

October 2014

  • Lagos

    Technology and innovation
    Nigerian recycling initiative proves it’s not all about hi-tech solutions

  • environment trash recycle aluminum cans

    Circular economy
    Why are major beverage companies refusing to use a 90% recycled can?

  • Rubik's cube

    UK remanufacturing worth £5.6bn if business model can be cracked

  • Clothes

    sustainable fashion
    Can fashion become a zero waste industry? - live chat

  • sustainable fashion
    Prada, Dior and Nike are finding a fashionable new purpose for fish skins

  • sustainable fashion
    The footwear industry is taking steps towards sustainability

  • sustainable fashion
    Five fashion designers working sustainably without the eco terminology

  • Q&A
    10 things we learned in recent circular economy live chat

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