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Why data and measurement are key to a circular economy transition

GreenBiz

This article originally appeared on Circulate News. This means changing the way businesses see their role in society and, ultimately, transforming the economy. Our current economic model is based on extraction and waste. This take-make-waste economic model fundamentally cannot work long term. James Woolven.

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Circularity analysis details alarming trend as global resource consumption passes 100 billion tonnes a year

Envirotec Magazine

Circular economy strategies essential as reuse of resources falls to 8.6%. Circle Economy’s CEO, Harald Friedl, said: “We risk global disaster if we continue to treat the world’s resources as if they are limitless. The report seemingly finds that total resources entering the global economy have increased by 8.4%

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? Copper’s the new gold rush #184

Climate Tech VC

  In other news British banks increase their green ambitions while the opposition Labour party drops theirs. It’s a superior electricity conductor, which makes it fundamental to power cables and wires, transformers and inverters, electrical motors, and photovoltaic cells.    Demand is on the rise.

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Why Ford is bullish on domestic EV manufacturing

Business Green

With its "transformative" $11.4bn plan to build new EV and EV battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky by 2025 announced last week, Ford is embarking on the first leg of that journey. Ford wasn't the only car company with big manufacturing news last week. This is a daunting reskilling challenge. "We

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

We cannot forget that a better future is 100 percent in our hands, because WE, and only WE, have the power and the resources to make better decisions, to be more conscious. Manager Sustainability and ESG, JetBlue; New York . Diversity and Inclusion Lead, Unilever; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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Catering firm Compass Group to ban fruit and veg flown to UK by plane

Business Green

But this week the firm announced it would extend the policy across the group, alongside a series of new sustainability measures for its UK & Ireland operations, which include catering, cleaning, and facilities management across more than 6,000 locations.

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Why data and measurement are key to a circular economy transition

AGreenLiving

Why data and measurement are key to a circular economy transition James Woolven Fri, 02/12/2021 – 01:00 This article originally appeared on Circulate News. This means changing the way businesses see their role in society and, ultimately, transforming the economy. Our current economic model is based on extraction and waste.

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