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Inspiration for the circular economy
Bureo and Yair Neuman
While eliminating waste during the initial design process is the ultimate goal of the circular economy, keeping materials in circulation longer is another essential step in the interim process. Bureo's NetPlus Materials and Yair Neuman's Eyewear Lens to Lighting both offer innovative product design solutions to material waste. Bureo designs its products by considering end-of-life implications during the initial design phase.
11.12.20 | Bureo
NEW PRODUCTS
Patagonia | Bureo is collaborating with Patagonia to integrate their NetPlus® material into Patagonia's hat brims and textiles Humanscale | The first ergonomic task chair made with recycled fishing nets. Smart Ocean Chair. Each chair incorporates almost 2 pounds of recycled fishing net material. Jenga Ocean | The first board game made from recycled fishing nets. Jenga Ocean is made from over 25 square feet of nets proudly sourced through Bureo's Net Positiva recycling program. Bureo.co |
Yair Neuman is a London-based designer and entrepreneur, exploring sustainable design opportunities, while minimizing the environmental impact of everything he produces and conceives. His most recent collection was developed in collaboration with eyewear brand Cubitts. As with most eyewear stores, Cubitts’ frames are displayed with dummy ‘plano’ lenses that are replaced with prescription lenses once purchased by the customer. The average high-street eyeglasses store discards 200 such lenses every week. Neuman is turning these lenses, otherwise destined for landfill, into polycarbonate sheet materials, from which he has created a striking lighting collection called Lens Light, recently launched during the London Design Festival.
published in Design Milk
published in Design Milk
09.03.20 | Designing toys for the circular economy
Creating a circular economy for toys. Solutions to design out waste and pollution.
The long-term success of circular business models relies on new toys being designed and made for a circular economy. How durable a toy is designed to be, for example, can extend the time it is played with, and durability has as much to do with how desirable a toy is over time as its physical attributes.
published by The Ellen MacArthur Foundation by Tansy Robertson-Fall, Senior Editor, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The long-term success of circular business models relies on new toys being designed and made for a circular economy. How durable a toy is designed to be, for example, can extend the time it is played with, and durability has as much to do with how desirable a toy is over time as its physical attributes.
published by The Ellen MacArthur Foundation by Tansy Robertson-Fall, Senior Editor, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute is dedicated to powering innovation for the circular economy through products that have a positive impact on people and planet.
Through the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program, the Institute sets the global standard for products that are safe, circular and made responsibly. Cradle to Cradle Certified is used by future-focused designers, brands, retailers and manufacturers across the value chain to innovate and optimize materials and products according to the world’s most advanced science-based measures for material health, product circularity, renewable energy and climate, water and soil stewardship, and social fairness.
The Institute powers the global shift to a circular economy through partnerships and collaborative initiatives that equip businesses, governments and other stakeholders with the technical solutions and knowledge they need to innovate the way products are designed and made.
https://www.c2ccertified.org/products/registry
Through the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program, the Institute sets the global standard for products that are safe, circular and made responsibly. Cradle to Cradle Certified is used by future-focused designers, brands, retailers and manufacturers across the value chain to innovate and optimize materials and products according to the world’s most advanced science-based measures for material health, product circularity, renewable energy and climate, water and soil stewardship, and social fairness.
The Institute powers the global shift to a circular economy through partnerships and collaborative initiatives that equip businesses, governments and other stakeholders with the technical solutions and knowledge they need to innovate the way products are designed and made.
https://www.c2ccertified.org/products/registry
06.17.20 | Today, CEOs of some of the world’s biggest companies, policymakers, philanthropists, academics, and other influential individuals have reaffirmed their commitment to building a circular economy.
Together we can build an economy that is distributed, diverse, and inclusive.
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03.02.20 | Engaging Customers in Circular Behavior
In Japan, McDonald’s Happy Meal toys are returned to the restaurants to become trays. This helps consumers to close the loop in their minds: they get something to take home at the restaurants and it goes back to the restaurant to become part of another product. This helps consumers relate to the (Circular Economy) concept through an experience.
published in How Consumer Engagement Can Drive Circularity. A Report by GlobeScan and GreenBiz
published in How Consumer Engagement Can Drive Circularity. A Report by GlobeScan and GreenBiz
02.13.20 | Imagining a World of Sustainable, Regenerative Brands
published in Fast Company
Instead of an abundance of material goods, we want an abundance of time, meaningful relationships, and passionate pursuits. We want an abundance of creativity, experiences, and freedom. How do we get there?
By Nicole Pontes
Imagine the world in 2030. We’ve exhausted our virgin, natural resources. Our mines are tapped out. Our working forests are gone. Our fossil fuel reserves are done.
Luckily, our leaders across business, government, and civil society have joined together to create vast amounts of natural reserves (just in time!), so that the environment is able to regenerate at a healthy, steady rate. However, in order to thrive, these protected natural places must remain untouchable for decades, so we have to make do with what we’ve already pulled out of the ground.
In this future, imagine that we’ve opened up landfills in search of precious metals for electronics. We’ve cleaned up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to extract precious plastic for recycling into new goods. And we’ve shifted away from a take-make-waste culture because every. single. thing. counts.
In this future, nature is flourishing because we’ve learned to leave it alone. We’ve learned how to share better. We’ve learned to live in cohousing settlements where each family has an individual dwelling but also shares resources like a community event space, pool, gym, and playground.
We’ve learned that not everything needs to be new to be new to us... read more
Instead of an abundance of material goods, we want an abundance of time, meaningful relationships, and passionate pursuits. We want an abundance of creativity, experiences, and freedom. How do we get there?
By Nicole Pontes
Imagine the world in 2030. We’ve exhausted our virgin, natural resources. Our mines are tapped out. Our working forests are gone. Our fossil fuel reserves are done.
Luckily, our leaders across business, government, and civil society have joined together to create vast amounts of natural reserves (just in time!), so that the environment is able to regenerate at a healthy, steady rate. However, in order to thrive, these protected natural places must remain untouchable for decades, so we have to make do with what we’ve already pulled out of the ground.
In this future, imagine that we’ve opened up landfills in search of precious metals for electronics. We’ve cleaned up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to extract precious plastic for recycling into new goods. And we’ve shifted away from a take-make-waste culture because every. single. thing. counts.
In this future, nature is flourishing because we’ve learned to leave it alone. We’ve learned how to share better. We’ve learned to live in cohousing settlements where each family has an individual dwelling but also shares resources like a community event space, pool, gym, and playground.
We’ve learned that not everything needs to be new to be new to us... read more