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Startup, Flocus: insulating and regenerative yarn from kapok fiber

Startup, Flocus: insulating and regenerative yarn from kapok fiber

Flocus is a company specializing in the production and development of sustainable and eco-friendly materials based on kapok, a natural fiber from the seed pods of the kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) gr...

Global Plastic Treaty: Zero Draft Published

Global Plastic Treaty: Zero Draft Published

On September 4th, the zero draft of the Global Plastic Pollution Treaty was published, reflecting a wide range of options and viewpoints. Among the various options are mandatory reduction of virgin ...

The End of Rubble

The End of Rubble

A video gone viral in the summer of 2021 showed the simultaneous demolition of 15 new and never-lived-in skyscrapers in the southern Chinese city of Kunming in just 45 seconds. Certainly, the frenzi...

Startup: AI and Satellite Remote Sensing in Support of Fish Farmers with Aquaconnect

Startup: AI and Satellite Remote Sensing in Support of Fish Farmers with Aquaconnect

Founded in 2017 in Chennai, India, Aquaconnect is an integrated platform for aquaculture inputs and outputs, supported by a digital distribution network. To date, the Indian company collaborates wi...

Extended Producer Responsibility is Becoming Increasingly Extended

Extended Producer Responsibility is Becoming Increasingly Extended

Waste management in Europe, especially when an EPR scheme is involved, is anything but a homogeneous affair. Under the umbrella of EU legislation, over the years member states have found flexible, d...

Blue Economy in the Netherlands: A Sea of Potential

Blue Economy in the Netherlands: A Sea of Potential

Working with the sea is part of the history, tradition, and culture of the Netherlands. For centuries, the Dutch have worked on the open sea, gaining a profound understanding of the specific co...

Worldcoin, groundbreaking currency or privacy risk?

Worldcoin, groundbreaking currency or privacy risk?

The cryptocurrency Worldcoin, the digital currency created by Sam Altman, one of the founders of artificial intelligence giant ChatGPT, continues to create buzz. This week, the Kenyan governmen...

The Top Benefits of Home Composting

The Top Benefits of Home Composting

More and more people are turning to home composting as a way of being greener, improving their gardens and making use of organic waste which would ordinarily be sent for recycling or to landfil...

Startup: Finless Foods, plant-based and lab-grown fish products

Startup: Finless Foods, plant-based and lab-grown fish products

Finless Foods is a pioneering company in the fish alternatives sector, renowned for having been the first to produce seafood from cell cultures and plant-based ingredients.Harnessing cellular b...

The Netherlands, Circular by Design

The Netherlands, Circular by Design

According to the Circularity Gap Report – The Netherlands, https://www.circularity-gap.world/netherlands the Dutch economy is 24.5% circular. Targeted strategies, especially in the key sectors...

Space Mining 

Space Mining 

In Netflix's ironic and apocalyptic blockbuster Don't Look Up, a comet is determined to crash into Earth. Leonardo DiCaprio portrays an astronomer stuck somewhere between terrified and dumbfounded: ...

Lebiu, biobased materials from cork waste in Sardinia

Lebiu, biobased materials from cork waste in Sardinia

Taking its name from the Sardinian word “lightness”, LEBIU is an innovative startup that develops cutting-edge materials by transforming cork waste from the local supply chain for h...

G20 India, the start of an industrial coalition for circular economy

G20 India, the start of an industrial coalition for circular economy

Technological cooperation, partnership, and finance to enhance the impact and scale-up of initiatives on the matter of circular economy. These are the three pillars guiding the Resource Efficie...

Startup: Real Bowl, delivery pet food fresh and ready to eat

Startup: Real Bowl, delivery pet food fresh and ready to eat

Real Bowl is the online platform allowing you to order and receive at home a tailormade diet for dogs containing no preservatives, prepared using only high-quality fresh ingredients. The food can be...

Rock and sustainability: Coldplay & C., this is how music reduces its impact

Rock and sustainability: Coldplay & C., this is how music reduces its impact

Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour, which has dramatically reduced the band’s carbon footprint, is setting new standards of sustainability. The seventh concert tour of the British grou...

Startup: Circular Fiber, Karshof flour from artichoke waste

Startup: Circular Fiber, Karshof flour from artichoke waste

Circular Fiber is an innovative startup aiming to combat food waste through the transformation of agri-food scraps into value products. The company’s current main focus is the production of Ka...

A carbon tax on luxury consumption? More equity, less CO2

A carbon tax on luxury consumption? More equity, less CO2

Taxes on “luxury” goods and services could result in more equity and less CO2. According to a study published at the end of June in the academic journal One Earth, a carbon tax on domest...

Startup: Automated technologies for the rearing of black soldier fly with Kinsect

Startup: Automated technologies for the rearing of black soldier fly with Kinsect

“Kinsect is a benefit society aiming to provide technologies to develop sustainable insect breeding with minimal environmental impact. Insect breeding allows the creation of proteins while req...

Make Italy Green: Frank Meyer’s ESG vision

Make Italy Green: Frank Meyer’s ESG vision

Energy communities, customer care, highly decarbonisation-focused business, and a clear plan: “Make Italy Green”. E.ON Italia CEO Frank Meyer is an optimistic visionary who is working ti...

Startup: Reusable Filters by Atium to Combat Mercury Water Pollution

Startup: Reusable Filters by Atium to Combat Mercury Water Pollution

Atium is a startup that has developed a patent-pending technology, based on a reversible electrochemical process, to improve the performance and efficiency of mercury removal from water. The technol...

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