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Looking after Inerts

Looking after Inerts

Some figures first of all. At the moment, in Italy, there are 7,123 kilometres of motorways, 24,241 kilometres of state roads, 154,948 kilometres of provincial roads and 1.3 million kilometres of co...

Circular Business Models for the Built Environment

Circular Business Models for the Built Environment

Arup and Royal BAM have been recently exploring the benefits and business opportunities that Circular Business Models (CBMs) offer to stakeholders within the built environment sector. This research ...

Horses Prefer Rubber

Horses Prefer Rubber

From car wheels to horses’ hooves the step is shorter that you might think. To help close the gap is a project that thanks to an innovative use of recycled rubber from end-of-life tyres (ELTs)...

Recycling is Better than Mining

Recycling is Better than Mining

Karmenu Vella, the European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, has recently defined Umicore as “great example of a company that has completely reinvented itself to m...

Claim the Sky!

Claim the Sky!

  The atmosphere is a community asset that belongs to all of us. The problem is that it is currently an open access resource – anyone can emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere with no ...

Circulating Ideas and Know-How

Circulating Ideas and Know-How

The story of the Landbell Group begins in 1995 with the advent of “take-back” policies: the set of measures that introduced the obligation for producers to recycle the packaging material...

Green Innovation Needs Patient Capital

Green Innovation Needs Patient Capital

    With no intention whatsoever to instigate legends on private companies, Pavan Sukhdev – interviewed in the last issue of this magazine – claims that the main driving fo...

Excellent Waste

Excellent Waste

Circular economy 2.0. This is how we could define the new phase of sustainable economy where the developments of the industrial supply chains generating waste are analysed, i.e. the processes that c...

Art that Walks in the World

Art that Walks in the World

This story was produced in partnership with FuturePerfect, www.resilience.org/stories/2015-06-08/art-that-walks-in-the-world#   Daniel McCormick and Mary O’Brien have received plen...

Textile Mines in Search of An Author

Textile Mines in Search of An Author

Investing in recyclability planning strategies; increasing the volume of used clothing collection and used clothing resale and the volume of clothing manufactured using recycled fibres: this is GFA&...

Towards a Crackdown on Food Waste

Towards a Crackdown on Food Waste

“The problem at this point is that there is a problem.”  – Captain Obvious(1)   2012 stands as a turning point. The Zero Hunger Challenge launched by the Secretary-Gen...

Expo's Second Life

Expo's Second Life

Curiously enough, Expo 2015 life cycle is not over yet. Obviously it no longer involves thousands of participants (countries, civil societies and partners) and millions of visitors, but “objec...

Stop Wasting Food!

Stop Wasting Food!

Manifesto of the Green Economy on Agri-Food for Expo 2015 “Spreading Eco Innovation and Good Practices” Promoted by  Italian National Council for the Green Economy Documen...

Circularity Travels on Two Wheels

Circularity Travels on Two Wheels

With a contribution by Luigi Bosio (Engineering Office Manager, Erica Soc. Coop.), Roberto Cavallo (CEO of Erica Soc. Coop.) and Andrea Pavan (Ride Green Project Manager for Eric Soc. Coop.)  ...

Unsustainability Trap

Unsustainability Trap

According to Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an economic system can be defined as circular when it is able to self-replenish stocks of human, technological, social and natural capital. This regenerative...

New Scenarios

New Scenarios

– from our partners –   The current financial crisis has inevitably impeached the old mode of economic thought. On the one hand, the failures of the market mechanisms bo...

Biomass: Balance is the Secret

Biomass: Balance is the Secret

An ideal circular economy is one that, beyond circulating as much as possible materials in the community before giving them back to nature, gives them back paying attention to replenish natural stoc...

Water: A Contended Resource

Water: A Contended Resource

“Water, water, everywhere, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink”. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote these lines at the end of the eighteenth c...

Buildings: The Circular Economy's Challenge

Buildings: The Circular Economy's Challenge

This article is featured in Issue #16 (Summer 2015) of Revolve Magazine on pages 68-73, revolve.media/brussels-building-the-future   Brussels is known for making its buildings more &ldqu...

Critical Mineral Resources for Renewable Energies in Germany

Critical Mineral Resources for Renewable Energies in Germany

Contribution to Ecoscienza 6/2014.   Challenge The German Federal Government’s energy concept ascribes renewable energies the role of an “important pillar of future energy supply...

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