ESRs’ Blog
Have you ever heard about Climathon?
Climathon is a global event that asks all citizens of the participating cities to face challenges linked to environmental sustainability and be part of the solution...
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Design for Sustainable Disposal
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...
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Let’s ReThink our attitude!
Text by Felipe Alexandre de Lima & Jayani Ishara Sudusinghe Aquarelle by Felipe Alexandre de Lima It’s worldwide recognized that the current “take-make-dispose”...
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The end of planned obsolescence?
Increasing the pace of new innovations and constantly releasing new products with small incremental changes is sometimes a strategy for firms in highly competitive...
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Organic waste: Biobased circularity
Municipal solid waste and in particular organic waste are globally generated in large quantities from various sectors including different stages of the food supply...
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Why can’t we live circular?
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...
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EU announces new investment in CE
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...
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The CE vs Growth dilemma
The current linear economy has been strongly challenged in recent years regarding its merely focus on economic growth in spite of the resulting environmental...
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Circular Economy and the 6 REs
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...
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