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Outdoor gear company Arc'teryx flies toward a circular economy

GreenBiz

Today, the company launched its ReBird platform , a centralized hub on the company site that gives customers an inside look at its circular initiatives — from upcycling and resale to care and repair. The company is upcycling materials from a jacket line to create new products. Circular strategy in motion. Courtesy of.

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Greater Manchester calls for a repair revolution

Envirotec Magazine

Research commissioned by Recycle for Greater Manchester (R4GM) found that last year Greater Manchester residents threw away an estimated £417 million* worth of items that could have been repaired instead. A further £809 million* was then spent on replacing the damaged or broken items.

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Report details progress with four trailblazing circularity projects, one year on

Envirotec Magazine

Helping menstrual cups go mainstream, redesigning children’s shoes to make them last longer, creating ‘lend and mend’ hubs in libraries and enabling polyester to be recycled again and again were the winning projects chosen by an independent Grant Fund panel of industry experts.

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Adorable goat playground raises awareness of upcycling waste

AGreenLiving

an educational pavilion and animal playground that raises awareness about the merits of upcycling. Because the pavilions would only be built of upcycled waste, the final designs were limited by the materials the architects could salvage. Adorable goat playground raises awareness of upcycling waste. Installed in the town of ?daži

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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. develops an ultra-lightweight, flexible solar technology for the built environment. Hempitecture (Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.)

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London event will coach public on repair skills

Envirotec Magazine

Supported this year by partner Suez, Repair Week is billed as an annual celebration of handiness, featuring repair workshops, films, expert advice and a directory of repair services – all of which are intended to help people gain and grow their repairing skills, save money and help fight climate change.

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Archivist releases shirts made from recycled hotel sheets

AGreenLiving

Transport distances are short because the hotels, located across Europe, send linens directly to a workshop near Bucharest. The men’s leisure shirt, made from 100% upcycled hotel linens, is offered in three sizes, which the company describes as flowy and oversized. Archivist releases shirts made from recycled hotel sheets.