Between declared circularity and the marginal role of health, the furnishing and interior design sector has not yet come to terms with what it produces and the air it leaves behind in our homes. Tod...
Throughout history, furniture has represented a category of material consumption. Just consider the contribution of Egyptian culture, which, as early as its first dynasties, was producing furnishing...
Yerevan - Perhaps the Kunming-Montreal Global Agreement on Biodiversity should have been called the ‘Agreement on Food Security and Nature’s Services to the Economy’. Brutal and Ca...
Fifty million euros to increase both the quantity and quality of recycled rigid plastics: this is the investment made by Aliplast (a subsidiary of the Hera Group), which also received a €7.7 mi...
In the heart of Polesine, in Bottrighe, near Adria, a highly innovative plant in the international bioeconomy sector has been built: this is the first industrial site of its kind capable of producin...
Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to the microeconomic foundations...
Kumasi Drinks is a Dutch startup that transforms the pulp of the cacao fruit into premium drinks and products. Cacao pulp is the fleshy, juicy part surrounding the beans used to make chocolate, trad...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Water Observer: subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water For a decade, Junker has built its relations...
September 2015: for the first time, Xi Jinping is received at the White House by Barack Obama. In Washington, climate and the energy transition are at the heart of a rare period of cooperation betwe...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”: Ursula von der Leyen quoted Dickens’s words describing the period of the French Revolution at the opening of her State of the...
STEP by Pollutec is a new two-day event launching at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on 1–2 December 2026, developed by RX France as a focused platform complementing Pollutec, its flagship envi...
Novamont, a Versalis company (ENI), has published its sixth Impact Report since acquiring benefit corporation status in 2020. Unlike previous editions, the 2025 report introduces a significant chang...
Zero Branco (Treviso) - In a warehouse on the outskirts of Treviso, the word “sludge” no longer means waste. On 11 September, HBI inaugurated EVA 3, the first fully industrial-scale impl...
In orbit, nothing is wasted. Every gram of material loaded before launch has a weight, a cost and an already planned second life. On the International Space Station, most of the water – includ...
The second edition of the International Conference on Bioenergy & Bioeconomy (IBBC 2026) will take place from 28 to 30 October 2026 at the University of Seville. The event is organised by the In...
NoPalm Ingredients is a Dutch startup based in Wageningen that produces oils and fats by fermenting by-products from the food industry, offering a sustainable, local and scalable alternative to palm...
Alkelux is a deep tech start-up established in Sardinia in 2024 whose mission combines sustainable chemistry, the circular economy and the fight against food waste: transforming an industrial by-pro...
The starting point, as Pierluigi Zerbino explained to an audience of businesses and academics, is disarmingly simple: “We asked ourselves: can the circular economy help to decarbonise the cons...
For most of its history, the recycling industry has been a business of steel and motion: conveyor belts, ballistic separators, screens, magnets. STADLER is a German family firm now in its eighth gen...
Walter Stahel is one of the founding thinkers of the circular economy. A Swiss architect and industrial analyst born in 1946, he first outlined the concept of selling performance rather than product...