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Lighting product design for a circular economy: workshops in April and May

Envirotec Magazine

Recycling expert Recolight’s first training workshop focusing on lighting product design for a circular economy ran in London during April. The one-day, in-person workshops seemingly do just that. The workshop includes hands-on case studies of products designed to circular economy principles. training-workshops/.

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Granby Workshop unveils ceramic dinnerware collection made from 100% waste

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“Recycling turbines is not a ‘major headache’ for the industry, whatever anti-renewables campaigners say”

Envirotec Magazine

Dr Charlotte Stamper is Energy Infrastructure Lead at metal recycling expert EMR. As one of the companies working to recycle these turbines – and to create a sustainable, circular economy for the materials they contain – EMR is in a great position to correct this narrative. And there are opportunities to go further.

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Start-up spotlight: Recycling waste plastic into bricks

Envirotec Magazine

Greenbrick Workshops was founded by Ben Gibbons and soon joined by Connor Winter, after the Covid-19 situation forced them to return to the UK from Nepal where they had been working with rural communities to reduce the damage caused by plastic pollution. Connor Winter and Ben Gibbons are the founders of Greenbrick.

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The Renewal Workshop raises €5 million to help fashion brands go circular

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ImpactAlpha, December 11 – Startups are helping minimize the environmental footprint of mainstream fashion with waterless dyes, online thrift stores, and clothes made of recycled materials. The Renewal Workshop is bringing all of these ideas directly to clothing manufacturers to help improve the circular economy factor of their designs.

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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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Closing the loop for plastics in electronics: New report

Envirotec Magazine

A new report – “Improving the loops of plastics in electronics” – shares the conclusions from a recent workshop on Waste of Electrical and Electronic equipment (WEEE) plastics, organized by BSEF, the International Bromine Council, during the International Electronics recycling conference (IERC 2022).

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