Deep Sea Mining, the Abyss Rush
The hunt for critical metals, more than for any other resource in human history, is breaking down limits and reaching previously unthinkable frontiers. So, while some are looking toward space, effor...
Startup: Waste Planning and Forecasting with geoFluxus Technology
The digital platform created by the Dutch startup geoFluxus presents itself as a waste forecasting consultancy. Through resource mapping and digital analysis tools, it tracks the journey of waste fr...
Startup: Byborre designs textiles in 3D and launches textile as a service
Byborre, a textiles innovator based in Amsterdam, combines technology and craftsmanship to create a future-proof textile industry. Working at the frontiers of material development, functionality and...
At the Heart of the Circular Economy
The EU Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference, the most important summit on the circular economy in Europe, has now reached its 6th edition. On 27 and 28 February, 500 policymakers, analysts, trade...
Cillian Lohan: the Circular Economy is a Positive Story
The sixth edition of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference opens today, Monday 27th February. We asked Cillian Lohan, Vice-President of the EESC and promoter of the initiative, how fa...
Even Italians’ savings are boosting the circular transition
The Italian Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), as other national promotional institutions, is a driver of sustainable growth and the circular transition in a way that is “additional and complementar...
How the Internet of Things helps the circular transition
Digital technologies play a crucial role in the transition to a circular economy. Specifically, the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart products connected to it are a crucial enabler of the circular ...
Startup: Regenerative Poultry Systems, the poultry sector in transition thanks to indigenous knowledge
Regenerative Poultry Systems is the US-based company that aims to facilitate the poultry industry's transition to a regenerative farming model, based on the proven ancestral system focused on return...
What the end of COVID-zero means for clean energy technologies
China is ending COVID-zero. At its heart, the reasoning behind the decision is economic. China spent decades making itself a critical link in global supply chains, and disruptions cascading from COV...
Startup: clean water and energy from wastewater with Wase
London-based startup Wase has developed a method to treat even the most difficult waste, allowing it to manage wastewater, food waste, and agricultural waste to produce electricity and recover water...
Extractivism: Sooner or Later, Everything Becomes Critical
The process of decarbonisation and electrification of the economy requires increasing quantities of metals and minerals. Some of these, due to their economic importance and the risks linked to their...
A new EU industrial plan for the net-zero age
This week, the European Commission published the Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age. This is the EU’s first move in response to US President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction ...
Low-tech Economy is Needed to Overcome Scarcity
Are there enough resources and raw materials to meet the ecological transition? Does innovation and technological development help or can they be a hindrance? Are there alternatives to high-tech? Re...
Circularity Gap Report 2023: here’s why global circularity has dropped to 7.2%
“The global economy is now only 7.2 percent circular; and it’s getting worse year on year, driven by rising material extraction and use”. This is how the Circularity Gap Report 2023 opens, wit...
Critical Moment
In the world of robotics and informatics, as well as in the world of the energy transition, the material factor is often ignored. We have imagined android armies, hypercomplex machinery, infinite so...
Circular Washing: How to Recognise it to Avoid it
The greenwashing road is paved with good intentions, while that of circular washing – its latest and more treacherous evolution – is full of superficiality and inexperience. Yet, like never befo...
Ecodesign for sustainable products: what will change for consumers and businesses?
In March 2022, the European Commission published proposals to extend the scope of eco-design regulations to all physical products on the EU market. The new regulations will – most likely – touch...
What are Digital Twins and how they can help sustainability
Creating digital models of real systems – Digital Twins - can help reduce energy and water consumption and enable new, low-impact business models.The first example dates back to 1970, when Steve J...
This collective wants to fix the beauty industry's packaging problem
No recycled content. No take-back program. Destined for landfill, incineration or (worse yet) the environment. This probably doesn’t sound to you like a recipe for success in sustainability. It di...
Specific codes for the biobased industries are fundamental to fully exploit the circular bioeconomy potential
“The recognition of our sector through the application of specific NACE codes is an important element as it would allow a better measurement in the statistical field and the possibility of address...