Australians send about 4 million tonnes of food waste to landfill each year – but what if we could use it for other purposes?
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Australia is among the world’s top ten users of electronic and electrical products. But our systems for recycling the resulting ‘e-waste’ fall a long way short of other rich nations.
It’s time to rethink the stack-em-high and sell-em-cheap approach to business.
The land of Ikea and apple charlotte is hoping to sell its vision of sustainability at COP21. There are a couple of meatballs in the ointment, though.
Don’t throw out your used coffee grounds. They could be used in the garden, an engine or even a research lab.
The ‘linear economy’ that drove 20th-century leaps in wealth is no longer sustainable, and our standard of living will not survive without a dramatic redesign.
Australia’s relative share of global economic opportunity derived from smarter use of materials, energy and water could be $26 billion each year by 2025. Here are four ways Australia could make the most of the circular economy boom.
Every year massive amounts of valuable resources are deemed “waste” and consigned to landfill. Take the UK – around 540 million tonnes of products and materials enter the country annually, but only 117…
The concept of the circular economy has left the realm of academic theory and entered the world of business. The price of natural resources and materials is soaring, and in response to volatile markets…
Imagine your smartphone’s screen gets smashed, or your bike wheel gets buckled, or your favourite boots get a hole in them. What do you do? You could buy a replacement. Or you could join the worldwide…
In the industrial era, economic growth has become equated with human progress, with a fundamental assumption that material growth and consumption inevitably leads to improvements in our well-being. Over…
When the who’s who of business and world leaders met at last month’s World Economic Forum in Davos a different industrial model was on the agenda: the circular economy. It’s a term the average person may…
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster
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Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton
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Professor of Resource Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology
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Reader in Fashion, Marketing and Sustainability, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Strategy, Economics and Foresights, Hult International Business School
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Associate Professor and Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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