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Glue derived from industrial bio-waste aims to make furniture recyclable

Envirotec Magazine

A new adhesive derived from materials including food waste should enable 90 percent of engineered wood products, such as furniture and construction boards, to become fully recyclable and help to develop a circular economy in this sector, says the firm marketing it. The new adhesive is claimed to be sustainable and non-toxic.

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5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design

GreenBiz

Energy and materials elegantly flow through ecosystems, efficiently cycling back into new forms without waste or stagnation. A circular economy is so much more than recycling or reusing waste streams, which is a reductionist understanding of what nature does. Design & Packaging. New Iridium. Pull Quote. Circular Economy.

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Environmentally friendly leather wins European circular economy startup award

Envirotec Magazine

The firm’s winning idea is a gelatine-based alternative to conventional leather, which is made from low-value gelatine waste from the meat and leather industries, such as skin and bones. The textile is seemingly produced without the use of toxins and is “organic and biodegradable.”

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5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design

AGreenLiving

Energy and materials elegantly flow through ecosystems, efficiently cycling back into new forms without waste or stagnation. A circular economy is so much more than recycling or reusing waste streams, which is a reductionist understanding of what nature does. The competition and accelerator is organized by the Biomimicry Institute. (I

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5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design

AGreenLiving

Energy and materials elegantly flow through ecosystems, efficiently cycling back into new forms without waste or stagnation. A circular economy is so much more than recycling or reusing waste streams, which is a reductionist understanding of what nature does. The competition and accelerator is organized by the Biomimicry Institute. (I

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Is the end nigh for questionable climate claims in UK adverts?

Business Green

The ASA, which is independent of government and funded by the advertising industry, said it would be sharing the findings with Ministers, arguing they should support the CMA's recommendations earlier this year for the government to develop statutory definitions for key climate terms used on product packaging and marketing material.

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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

GreenBiz

Time isn't on the side of those who hope to prevent the projection by the Pew Charitable Trusts that plastic waste flows into the oceans will double in the next 20 years. Already, if all the world's plastic waste could be shaped into a plastic shopping bag, all of Earth would fit inside of it, noted Morgan Stanley CMO and CSO Audrey Choi. "I

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