How short is the life of a toy? From The Steadfast Tin Soldier to Toy Story, many storytellers have sung the tale of the ephemeral, however shiny, existence of dolls, puppets and spaceships. From ki...
Chris Patermann is considered the father of the European bioeconomy and is still a central figure in the global bioeconomy community. In this exclusive interview, 10 years after the first Bioeconomy...
Ratti, a company listed on the Milan stock exchange, produces textiles and accessories for luxury and fashion brands. A leader in the realms of design and print technology, with legendary cultural h...
For fashion companies, whether large or small; the switch to the circular economy is inevitable. And the Covid pandemic has sped up the whole process.We’ve read, in its every possible form, that t...
As well as being a country with great designers and couture, Italy has always been the homeland of artisans and companies that can bring to life the ideas and visions of the most prestigious fashion...
Eliminating hazardous substances, reducing raw material consumption and radically changing recycling and also thanks to changes in consumption patterns, fashion brands are making progress in all the...
Fashion is a bizarre subject. The terms stems from the Latin facere (do, make) and through Old French façon to Middle English fashion, and in its multiple senses means manner, appearance, make or s...
The Sustainable Products Initiative, included in the new Circular Economy Action Plan and one of the goals of the Green Deal, plans to establish a digital product passport (DPP) that collects data o...
Sanitary masks have been keeping us company for almost two years now. Every day we buy them, we wear them to protect us from the virus, and finally we throw them away when they exhaust their functio...
Five hundred billion tons. That's the amount of resources consumed globally over the past six years, between COP21 in Paris in 2015 and COP26 in Glasgow. The sum was calculated by the think-tank Cir...
We use over 4 billion tonnes of cement each year, and almost 3 billion tonnes of CO2 are emitted to manufacture it. And yet, we cannot do without this material. This is how companies are working to ...
The year 2022 opens with good news for the circular transition of the fashion industry in Italy. Faced with the new obligation to separate collection of textile waste, which came into force on Janua...
In 2021, we've been looking hard at the financial and industrial revolution related to decarbonization. Not a day goes by that we don't talk about taxonomy, carbon disclosure, energy efficiency, Sco...
One of the biggest challenges to electrifying a fleet of vehicles — aside from adjusting to the range and limitations of the vehicles themselves — is building up the expensive charging infrastru...
Cut through the political noise and we can see that COP26 was a symbolic moment for the built environment. Reducing whole building-lifecycle emissions is now firmly established as an essential organ...
The road to the green economy is paved with geopolitics. A resource like steel makes this even clearer. Inaugurating a new era in transatlantic cooperation, on the sidelines of the G20 in Rome, the ...
“Our waste is our responsibility. Letting waste pollute the environment, end up in illegal dumpsites or in our oceans is a real loss of resources, which are precious for the EU’s transition to a...
“If plastic were a country, it would be the world’s fifth largest greenhouse gas emitter." Thus begins Judith Enck, president of the American NGO Beyond Plastics, in presenting a report with exp...
Climate action needs the circular economy. Jocelyn “Joss” Blériot, director of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the most active think tank dealing with reducing the use of raw materials, maximiz...
The fight against single-use plastic consumption has never been harder than in the past two years. With the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the (human) world's hunger for plastic has transformed fr...
