Circular Economy

This development is a very big deal. Read More

Sponsored by Sendle: The circular economy presents an opportunity for consumers to live more sustainably and the parcel serves as the lifeblood for the circular economy. Read More

Ocean plastic waste often flows from rivers. Innovative businesses are deploying low-cost, low-tech solutions. Read More

Digging in: New initiatives aimed at “mining” materials from products already in circulation and out of the waste streams help cut extraction of natural resources. Read More

Just 27 percent of people in the United States has access to some form of composting service. Read More

These actions can deliver 60 percent of the emissions reductions needed for the industry to stay in line with the Paris Agreement. Read More

We know that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. As such, metering utilities like gas, water and electricity has been standard practice for decades. Waste, on the other hand, remains out of sight and out of mind for most businesses with no way to accurately and consistently measure how much waste is actually being produced. For far too long, businesses have been estimating their waste production volumes by making a longstanding but flawed assumption: that their dumpsters are actually full when they’re picked up. But they’re not. Read More

Will investing in research, infrastructure and training improve the system? Read More

Instead of producing more things, we must maximize the use of existing ones. Read More

The companies launched the first Loop retail service in the US with a six-month pilot this week in Fred Meyer stores. Read More