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Category: Channel: Circular Economy

Close-up at hanger level of clothes on a rail, in focus on right foreground, with background blurred.
April 1, 2025 Jim McClelland

Renting clothes model fits best in niche markets

News: Renting clothes can reduce environmental impact of the fashion industry, but study shows why business models struggle to make a profit.

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Collection of miscellaneous seized knives in box, including choppers, machetes and swords.
March 25, 2025 Jim McClelland

Recycling turns street weapons into workouts

News: Recycling initiative in London takes six tonnes of seized knives off streets and turns weapons into gym equipment for public workouts.

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Side-on shot of Dubs Flex footwear in Dove Grey, with bare legs of wearer visible standing in rough stony landscape.
February 19, 2025 Jim McClelland

Resale is a step up for sustainability in fashion

Guest Blog by Stuart Davis: What are the sustainability benefits for a start-up fashion brand of incorporating resale into their business.

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Aerial view of floating (mostly plastic) trash filling area trapped behind blue cordon of Interceptor Barrier, beyond which seawater is garbage-free.
December 4, 2024 Jim McClelland

Opportunity to end plastic pollution wasted

Guest Blog by Monty Simus: How will the fallout affect pollution after collective failure to find a way forward on the Global Plastics Treaty?

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Square graphic via ChatGPT of Earth on piles of food waste, with some on top, in derelict old street scene, with faded partial duplicate panels added left and right to make image landscape.
November 20, 2024 Jim McClelland

9 out of 10 countries fail on food waste emissions

News: Food waste contributes 10% of global emissions, five times more than aviation, but 9 out of 10 countries fail to put it in their NDCs.

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Established wind farm in open fields and moorland, on a grey day with clouds overhead.
August 21, 2024 Jim McClelland

Time to repower and reprocess old wind turbines

News: If new wind turbines perform way better for efficiency, is it time to repower, replace, reprocess and recycle old ones on prime sites?

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Mass of plastic debris on board ship, ready for sorting and storing, with Ocean Cleanup name visible across bridge of vessel above.
May 2, 2024 Jim McClelland

Milestone reached for cleanup of ocean plastic

News: Cleanup pioneer has now extracted 10 million kg of polluting ocean plastic and trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch and world rivers.

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Close-up of orange and grey threads strung out of garment fragment.
April 4, 2024 Jim McClelland

Fibre reuse from old garments in circular workwear

News: Reusing fibres from worn-out garments to make new ones, a leading workwear manufacturer is pioneering a method of circular production.

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Person approaching from behind to put can into branded 'Every can counts' recycling backpack, being worn by another.
February 14, 2024 Jim McClelland

European can recycling programme expands into US

News: Making its debut at Mardi Gras 2024, pioneering recycling programme expands into US to help keep aluminium drinks cans out of landfill.

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Portrait of PhD researcher Susana Meza Huaman working in the lab, in white coat, with protective glasses.
January 31, 2024 Jim McClelland

Rapid chemical recycling for single-use bioplastics

News: Researchers discover a method of chemical recycling that achieves full degradation of single-use bioplastics within just 24 hours.

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