ESRs’ Blog

Originally written by Dr. Natalie Beinisch-Co-Founder at Circular Economy Innovation Partnership. As excitement about the Circular Economy grows so too do calls for...

by Meletios Bimpizas and Prof. Andrea Genovese(University of Sheffield, Management School) So, the “Capitalist Thrombosis” linked to the Suez Canal crisis...

How should we measure economic performance and success? We keep using GPD and economic growth and we keep ignoring all the critiques that point out how wrong are both...

Guest blog post by Sofia Greaves, PhD Researcher in Italian Modernism and urban planning at University of Cambridge Recycling is typically understood through...

Amos Ncube presents his research, entitled ‘Circular Economy Paths In The Olive Oil Industry: A Life Cycle Assessment Look Into Environmental Performance And...

What would you do if you knew that behind the clothes you wear… …there are low-wage workers without basic rights, people dying from diseases caused by chemicals and...

The pathway to a low carbon economy for many countries across Africa appears as a long and winding road.  There remains a predominance of fossil fuel-based heating...

by Amos Ncube Despite a growing momentum to transition to a circular economy, there is currently no consensus on how organisations can measure their effectiveness in...

Akis Bimpizas, Management School, University of Sheffield, UK ([email protected]) Prof. Andrea Genovese, Management School, University of Sheffield, UK...

It is around a year since I started my role as a ReTraCE ESR. I thought I would use this opportunity to reflect on the past year and share my thoughts, feelings and...

The COVID-19 crisis is not only challenging our livelihoods, but also our perception about the current economic development model. Many governments have restricted...

Quarantine can make you forget what day it is. The lock-down imposed nationally on March 12, to shutdown most businesses and a ban on public gatherings in Italy, the...

The first ReTraCE ESRs Team Retreat took place at the University Parthenope in Naples, from the 16th to the 18th of December. This was a self-organised event that...

We began our sustainability journey at ReTrace project with the mission statement towards circular economy and our initiative “Zero Waste“, a corporate imperative, as...

On the 12th of December, the UK general election will take place. While the debate has been mainly focused on Brexit and the National Health Service, Environmental...

With my African background, I always try to connect my research and reading with my roots as well for future implementation/consultancy. Throughout my literature...

The new eco-design requirements regulation in the EU[1] is hailed as the first step to Right to Repair legislation across the EU. An interesting aspect of the new...

​Increasing the pace of new innovations and constantly releasing new products with small incremental changes is sometimes a strategy for firms in highly competitive...

For billions of years we have had life on our planet, but no species had such a catastrophic effect on life on the planet as humans now have. And that is for one...

European Union’s (EU) priority is to achieve a greener and smarter Europe. The circular economy (CE) has been regarded as a powerful tool to reduce environmental...

The idea behind the Circular Economy is that we stop discarding what we consider waste until we reach a society that doesn’t heap up waste at all. But what...

Circular economy is the buzz word these days and the task ahead of us as the recently appointed Early Stage Researchers in pushing the circular economy (CE) agenda...