Separating Aspirations from Reality 360dialogues engaging graphic treatment examines circularity’s promise as a silver bullet for the planet’s problems and finds it wanting. With engaging visuals, it evaluates the claims from a scientifically informed perspective, illustrating the difference between possible and non-possible solutions for a more sustainable economy and provides a more pragmatic foundation on which …
Let’s face it, it’s not easy to learn about alternative-to-plastic materials – often cutting-edge innovations described in the impenetrable language of the lab and the academy. But what about how we think about innovation? As IP lawyer Sara Holland’s article The Inventions so enjoyably shows, art has often been our gateway to the future in …
Where experts answer twenty questions in thirty minutes about plastic, alternatives-to-plastic and all things circular. #3 Hair’s what’s happening! , Andrew and Zsofia Kollar – Founder of Human Material Loop – get into what is ‘waste’ and the benefits of hypo-allergic, strong as steel, climate-positive high-performance textiles from human hair! Listen on …
“A company with no positive intrinsic value that helps people, customers and users will not survive.” Michael Thiemann. Forbes Councils Member* If you’re as interested in ‘what a start-up needs’ as we are, try a little experiment. Do a web search on the topic. And? A business plan, a product, a market, marketing, finance… lots …
Investment – Is it still just ‘show me the money!’? Read More »
“We now live in a world of three dimensions in investing terms. We have lived, since the 1950s and [modern] portfolio theory, in a world that has worked with risk and return, but we are adding a third dimension of sustainability and responsibility, which is increasingly becoming a fiduciary duty to add to investment funds …
The following article is a transcription of a conversation between Andrew Johnson, Communications Director at CirQulor, and Phanos Hadjikyriakou, Co-Founder and CEO of 2050-Materials, a scale-up that’s leading the change to a sustainable and circular future for the built environment. AJ: Hello Phanos, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to chat …
Head-to-head: Democratizing sustainable materials selection Read More »
Here is what you can do instead. I’m sure I’m not the first person to tell you that the world’s plastic problem is at a critical level today. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age to the Steel Age, we delineate society’s epochs by their primary material for fabrication. Ours will most likely be called …
I’m an Environmental Scientist, and I Don’t Care If You Recycle Read More »
Covid-19, supply chain disruption, trade restrictions and new environmental regulatory enforcement have resulted in a wholesale re-evaluation of the true cost of using oil-based materials. Oil-based materials, including plastics, continue to dominate alternative materials mainly for reasons of cheap raw material supply; unrivalled global availability, and favourable regulatory factors. But times are changing: environmental impacts …
Oil-based v Postplastic materials – riding the market dynamic Read More »
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published a report last week which puts a figure on the true cost of plastic to society, the environment and the economy – a not-insignificant $3.7 trillion a year and rising. To give you a perspective on how large a sum that is, it’s approaching the annual GDP of Germany, …
The following article is a transcription of a conversation between Andrew Johnson, Communications Director at CirQulor, and Joseph Likens at Kynnex, a U.S. company specialising in product management and supply chain solutions. AJ: Joseph, thank you for joining me today. I’m going to dive right in, if I may, and ask you about the current …
Head-to-head: Overcoming barriers to sustainable manufacturing Read More »