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Waste to Taste: Turning Pee into Tea Using Space Technology

Everyone knows you can make tea out of water, but did you know you could make water out of pee? That’s what Semilla Sanitation has been…

Nov 13, 2019

Image of the Semilla Sanitation hub. It houses toilets, urinals, and sinks, and treats the wastewater on-site.

Nov 13, 2019

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The Circular Potential of Modular Design

Modular design is a creative way for companies to become more circular by designing their products with lifetime extension and waste…

Nov 8, 2019

The Circular Potential of Modular Design

Nov 8, 2019

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Shifting to a leasing ownership model: the benefits to buyer and supplier

Leasing, in which a person rents rather than buys a product from a company, has been heralded as a new circular ownership model with the…

Oct 30, 2019

Shifting to a leasing ownership model: the benefits to buyer and supplier

Oct 30, 2019

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3 Examples of Using Waste as a Resource

Using waste as a resource, rather than disposing of it as waste, is what makes a circular economy circular. It takes the two ends of a…

Oct 14, 2019

3 Examples of Using Waste as a Resource

Oct 14, 2019

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Waste isn’t waste, it’s a resource

‘Waste-as-a-resource’ is one of the key principles of the circular economy. It encourages us not to see waste as valueless rubbish that we…

Oct 11, 2019

Waste isn’t waste, it’s a resource

Oct 11, 2019

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Leasing: The New Circular Ownership Model

Leasing is an ownership model in which a person rents, rather than buys, a product from a company. Instead of paying the full price…

Oct 5, 2019

Leasing: The New Circular Ownership Model

Oct 5, 2019

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The Complete Guide to a Circular Economy of Paper

Although we live in a digital era, we still produce an astonishing amount of paper. Globally, paper production is at 390 million tonnes…

Sep 23, 2019

The Complete Guide to a Circular Economy of Paper

Sep 23, 2019

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Mining for Gold in 50 Million Tonnes of E-waste

E-waste is the fastest growing category of hazardous solid waste in the world, with millions of tons generated each year — 50 million tons…

Aug 17, 2019

Mining for Gold in 50 Million Tonnes of E-waste

Aug 17, 2019

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The Circular Economy for a Climate Neutral Europe by 2050

In light of recent extreme climate events, such as the recent heat wave that broke heat records in multiple European countries and melted…

Aug 9, 2019

The Circular Economy for a Climate Neutral Europe by 2050

Aug 9, 2019

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Heat wave presses need for a circular economy of water

As many Europeans are already all too familiar with, this past July brought on some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe…

Aug 4, 2019

Heat wave presses need for a circular economy of water

Aug 4, 2019

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