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Circular economy business models in the electronics sector such as rental, second hand and repair are rapidly gaining importance as they aim to reduce resource consumption by optimizing product use. However, it remains difficult to quantify the actual positive impact of these models and there is currently no standardized approach.
The „Undress Project“, implemented and led by Circularity in collaboration with Systemiq and Fraunhofer IZM and 12 industry partners, and supported by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt and Deloitte, sets out to develop a methodological framework and practical guide to assess the environmental impact of circular business models for the case of consumer electronics. This project will provide much-needed key insights for the transition to a truly sustainable circular economy, with the electronics sector leading the way.
The „Undress Project“, implemented and led by Circularity in collaboration with Systemiq and Fraunhofer IZM and 12 industry partners, and supported by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt and Deloitte, sets out to develop a methodological framework and practical guide to assess the environmental impact of circular business models for the case of consumer electronics. This project will provide much-needed key insights for the transition to a truly sustainable circular economy, with the electronics sector leading the way.
The CURE project aims to:
Help establish Centres for Urban Re-manufacturing in different cities
Evaluate if CUREs facilitate waste prevention through reuse and re-manufacturing
Document and analyse how the centres operate
Facilitate knowledge exchange between the different centres and initiatives involved
Promote improvised re-manufacturing among the general public and interested actors
Help establish Centres for Urban Re-manufacturing in different cities
Evaluate if CUREs facilitate waste prevention through reuse and re-manufacturing
Document and analyse how the centres operate
Facilitate knowledge exchange between the different centres and initiatives involved
Promote improvised re-manufacturing among the general public and interested actors
Making the invisible, visible
Imagining a better future for the repair & reuse economy in Kenya
Imagining a better future for the repair & reuse economy in Kenya
THE WASTE LAND is an artistic representation of hundred days of everyday waste. The project starts with collecting, documenting, and recycling personal household waste during the first 100 days of 2022. The process is developing along the thread of self-awareness, and it is fleeting in multiple pieces of waste on a day-to-day basis. The awareness of “environmental protection” becomes concrete when the micro-level actions are required. The project seeks different art forms to present the results by diving into the documentation – photographs, videos, physical items of waste, sorted pictures, interactive installations. Meanwhile, through AI technology, the project explores a possible timeline for future waste predictions.
But inside the square-mile slum, made famous in the movie "Slumdog Millionaire," is a bustling micro-economy filled with industry and commerce that generates some $665 million per year, according to Reality Gives, a non-profit that runs tours of Dharavi and uses the money to run community centers and classes for its 1 million residents. The workers and residents of Dharavi export leather goods, suitcases, baked goods, textiles, stoves, and an array of other products into the broader Indian economy.
The 13th Compound is at the heart of Dharavi’s recycling industry. An estimated 80% of Mumbai’s plastic waste is recycled in the slum, in some 15,000 single-room factories.
Inside the beehive of Mumbai’s central slum, skilled teams of small-scale manufacturers – from leather workers to garment stitchers – form a shadow world that the government refuses to recognise
This project will advance core understanding of maintenance and repair practices and connect these to long-standing concerns around the design, innovation, and sustainability of new computational tools and infrastructures. Technology maintenance and repair constitute central elements in the long-term impact and sustainability of computing tools and infrastructures. While there is tremendous need for understanding their effects on engineering development, maintenance and repair have been systematically underrepresented in human-computer research to date. By improving the design-repair nexus, this project seeks not only to study sustainability but also enhance it. Pedagogically, it develops new repair-centered teaching and learning strategies for education in engineering and the social sciences.
RREUSE is an international network representing social enterprises active in re-use, repair and recycling.
The linear ‘take, make, use, and dispose’ economy is driving the climate emergency. Extraction and processing of natural resources make up half of the total global greenhouse gas emissions and over 90% of water stress and biodiversity loss impact, according to the International Resource Panel. Product re-use and repair are the building blocks of circular economy, which can contribute to climate change mitigation by preventing resource depletion, diverting products and materials from landfills and incineration (therefore preventing associated emissions), and reducing energy demand.
One human’s trash is another human’s treasure. eBay Kleinanzeigen can give you more than you can imagine. Nestled among classifieds for furniture, flats, repair services, tantra massages, and baby clothes, you can find four Out of Scale listings. Occupying advert spaces of commerce and exchange, Anna Ehrenstein and Jeanne-Ange Wagne, Elio J Carranza, Nora Al-Badri, and Nazanin Noori offer their perspectives of the networked politics of the city. Find yourself in these distributed networks of revolt, resistance and dissidence.
MARR’s mission is to challenge the perception of waste culture by providing a unique platform for artists at the intersection of art, community, and waste systems. The Moab area is highly impacted by the tourism industry and, as a result, waste management. By facilitating artists’ direct engagement with the waste stream, MARR encourages resident artists to consider their studio practice through the lens of sustainability and to thoughtfully re-assess their processes of material sourcing and waste disposal.
Through a 4-week residency, the program offers artists studio space, project and community facilitation, a stipend, access to materials at local waste disposal sites, and the time and space to focus solely on their art. As a component of each residency, artists spend time providing opportunities for learning, dialog and enrichment within the community.
Through a 4-week residency, the program offers artists studio space, project and community facilitation, a stipend, access to materials at local waste disposal sites, and the time and space to focus solely on their art. As a component of each residency, artists spend time providing opportunities for learning, dialog and enrichment within the community.
We design and build products from excess fabrics and waste.
Diese Arbeit zeigt anhand von drei exemplarischen Produkten wie reparierbares Produktdesign aussieht. Zehn Richtlinien klären dabei über notwendige Vorraussetzungen auf und motivieren Nutzende, sich selbst an der Reparatur zu versuchen.
Finding Function In Unexpected Places.
900 trillion tonnes of food is wasted yearly, and so I challenged myself to turn this abundance of “waste” into utility. In this project, the wasted food was reincarnated twice. Firstly, it was given a second life as a bioplastic or a bioleather after a thorough experimentation with recipes. Next, the results were made into a myriad of physical and digital prototypes. Safe to say that one man’s food waste is another man’s treasure.
We are an international collective that develops online educational resources in the field of zero waste design and systems thinking for fashion.
rehub is a lab that aims to give a second chance to waste materials using cutting-edge processes
Our mission is the transition to a collaborative and circular consumption of electronics
Desde el Grupo de Reutilización y Redistribución de Recursos queremos convertir los recursos materiales en desuso (RMD) en oportunidades que proporcionar a las iniciativas de interés público e incentivar a la administración pública a desarrollar buenas prácticas para la gestión eficiente de los recursos. Creemos en la necesidad de construir masa crítica y empoderamiento para la gestión de recursos, en las prácticas cooperativas y colaborativas, en la gestión compartida y en el retorno al común.
We’re a Berlin-based impact and tech startup that aims to accelerate the transformation towards a circular economy. To achieve this, our team digitizes and simplifies circular services and processes with our software platform and partnership options – for electronics and other products.
We believe in a future where our clothes are loved again, live as long as possible and preserve a piece of history - where they are 'passed on' from generation to generation, recycled or even upgraded. We facilitate optimised textile cycles that protect our environment, that encourage a new and sustainable understanding of values, and that give us joy - in the often unexpected ways we can reuse our clothes.
Extending the use and life of our clothing is the best way to reduce the environmental impact of textiles. Our goal is to reach as many people as possible and encourage them to help shape our textile future.
Together we can create a cycle by donating our clothes properly, repairing them and making new from old. In this way, used or unused garments gain new value again and again and can continue their journey - A-GAIN & A-GAIN
Extending the use and life of our clothing is the best way to reduce the environmental impact of textiles. Our goal is to reach as many people as possible and encourage them to help shape our textile future.
Together we can create a cycle by donating our clothes properly, repairing them and making new from old. In this way, used or unused garments gain new value again and again and can continue their journey - A-GAIN & A-GAIN
Get rid of things dragging you down
Last week, three years of arguing with industry finally paid off, as the European standard EN45554 was published. This official document with an unexciting name details ”general methods for the assessment of the ability to repair, reuse and upgrade energy-related products.” In plain English, it’s a standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff. It’s also a huge milestone for the fight for fair repair.
L’agent valoriste est un professionnel du réemploi, du recyclage et de la valorisation des encombrants. Il valorise et revend les objets collectés.
Missions principales du poste
Collecte :
préparer la collecte (itinéraire, matériel, véhicule)
se déplacer sur les lieux de la collecte (permis B)
effectuer un premier diagnostic des objets à collecter
sélectionner puis ramener les objets réemployables à l’atelier
Valorisation :
Évaluer le potentiel de réemploi des objets récupérés, puis trier
Valoriser ces objets par réemploi : simple nettoyage, test, remise en état pour vente en boutique
Valoriser ces objets par recyclage : démentellement, tri de la matière, et livraison aux filières de recyclage adaptées.
Vente :
Participer au réapprovisionnement des boutiques, à la valorisation des objets, à la fixation des prix, aux temps de vente en accueillant et conseillant les clients, tenir éventuellement la caisse.
Missions principales du poste
Collecte :
préparer la collecte (itinéraire, matériel, véhicule)
se déplacer sur les lieux de la collecte (permis B)
effectuer un premier diagnostic des objets à collecter
sélectionner puis ramener les objets réemployables à l’atelier
Valorisation :
Évaluer le potentiel de réemploi des objets récupérés, puis trier
Valoriser ces objets par réemploi : simple nettoyage, test, remise en état pour vente en boutique
Valoriser ces objets par recyclage : démentellement, tri de la matière, et livraison aux filières de recyclage adaptées.
Vente :
Participer au réapprovisionnement des boutiques, à la valorisation des objets, à la fixation des prix, aux temps de vente en accueillant et conseillant les clients, tenir éventuellement la caisse.
The EU is currently engaged in two transformations that could change our economy and society for the better. If managed well, and in unison, the circular economy and the digital revolution could help the EU address its greatest challenge: to build a sustainable, green economy that is competitive on the global stage.
ISO/AWI 59040
Circular Economy — Product Circularity Data Sheet
Circular Economy — Product Circularity Data Sheet
Materiaalitori is intended for the professional exchange of waste and production side streams from companies and organisations. Materiaalitori also allows searching for and offering related services, such as waste management and specialist services. Those working in the field can use Materiaalitori transparently and free of charge.
We are building standards, ground rules and infrastructure based on European values for a data ecosystem that openly shares data, promoting Europe’s well-being and competitiveness.
Digitalisation will not automatically lead to greater sustainability. Nor is the inclusion of cutting-edge technologies in the circular economy a given.
But with the right encouragement and incentives from the EU, data and digitally-enabled solutions can accelerate and boost the transition to a sustainable circular economy. They can enhance connectivity and information sharing; make business models, products and processes more circular; and empower citizens and consumers to contribute to the transition. They can be used to improve different segments of the circular economy, including design, production, consumption, reuse, repair, remanufacturing, and overall waste management and recycling.
But with the right encouragement and incentives from the EU, data and digitally-enabled solutions can accelerate and boost the transition to a sustainable circular economy. They can enhance connectivity and information sharing; make business models, products and processes more circular; and empower citizens and consumers to contribute to the transition. They can be used to improve different segments of the circular economy, including design, production, consumption, reuse, repair, remanufacturing, and overall waste management and recycling.
Faircado is your sustainable shopping assistant that aggregates second-hand offers from the biggest marketplaces into one platform to make you save time, money and the planet. For free.
un-own your wardrobe
São roupas feitas na China ou em Bangladesh e compradas, por exemplo, em Berlim ou Los Angeles, antes de serem jogadas fora. Milhares de toneladas acabam como lixo escondido no deserto na área de Alto Hospicio, no norte do Chile, um dos destinos finais para roupas "de segunda mão" ou de temporadas anteriores de cadeias de fast fashion.
In Catalonia alone, every day, 720,000 kg of food is thrown away. This wasted food, totaling 260,000 tons per year, is equivalent to the food needs of 500,000 people for one year. Remix el Barrio was born with the ambition to propose a learning space to encourage and nurture new practices based on food-waste crafts. It is the result of a pilot program where various designers learn about biomaterial design and explore projects with food scraps using artisanal techniques and digital fabrication. Remix El Barrio was created in the regenerative district of Poblenou, more specifically in the ecosystem of Fab Lab Barcelona, where designers united to co-produce new forms of crafts from their individual aspirations, benefitting from regular peer-learning sessions, access to machines and tools, and learning from the maker open source culture present all over the place. Each designer has initiated a creative design driven material innovation approach where they identify a recurrent local food waste case, learn about its characteristics, investigate how to best collect and process it, and imagine future applications and material life-cycle narratives.
TOMRA creates sensor-based solutions for optimal resource productivity
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We’re introducing each of our four Policy-in-Practice Fund projects with an introductory blog post. Below, Leandro Navarro from eReuse answers a few of our burning questions to give us some insight into the project and what it will achieve. We’re really excited to be working with four groups of incredible innovators and you’ll be hearing a lot more about the projects as they progress.
GIFTD is an app enabling people to gift their pre-loved clothes to friends, family and neighbours.
REUSE >> REFUSE is an audiovisual series bringing the dimension of sound into the discourse on refusal. The series invites four artists to activate the disregarded, unproductive, and leftover in order to assert the value of what is often seen as waste. Each of the contributors has been asked to REUSE >> REFUSE, to produce something new out of what was previously rejected or left on the cutting-room floor. ringing together contributions by Lamin Fofana, Moor Mother, KMRU and Sarvenaz Mostofey, REUSE >> REFUSE will be published in the Almanac for Refusal as well as on the website of NTS Radio on 21.09.2021.
Refuse and refusal converge in that they both are situated outside of what is considered productive or generative. If refusal traditionally marks a break from an existing status quo through individual or collective acts of withdrawal, refuse is normally considered the residue of, or the leftover from, an act of transformation. They are thus both used to describe acts of rejection, avoidance, negation, yet insist on an alternative or a demand for reform. As refusal can be seen as a demand for an alternative, for new possibilities, can what has been deemed as refuse hold those possibilities within it too?
Refuse and refusal converge in that they both are situated outside of what is considered productive or generative. If refusal traditionally marks a break from an existing status quo through individual or collective acts of withdrawal, refuse is normally considered the residue of, or the leftover from, an act of transformation. They are thus both used to describe acts of rejection, avoidance, negation, yet insist on an alternative or a demand for reform. As refusal can be seen as a demand for an alternative, for new possibilities, can what has been deemed as refuse hold those possibilities within it too?
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Our practice is focused on investigating value chains and making waste materials come to life again. This is the rebirth of materials that were once exiled to towering landfills or incinerators.
This research explores the disruption of centralised waste facilities to accommodate a decentralised model, known as the mini-MRF, that is capable of extracting more value out of waste streams. Centralised facilities possess a hoax of challenges, be it their complex infrastructure or high capital and operational costs. With that said, existing systems characterise an unsustainable solution for long-term waste management, and a worthy solution to these issues is crucial for effective management of our planet’s resources.
This briefing outlines the value that social economy enterprises bring to the circular economy in terms of job creation, focussing on the upper levels of the waste hierarchy, notably re-use and preparation for re-use activities. Social enterprises are crucial for a just and green transition towards a resilient low-carbon economy, given their activities to curb the use of resources whilst providing local and inclusive employment opportunities and services.
Kollage Kollective are a Berlin-based art collective composed of autodidactic multimedia explorers with a shared vision and driven by a strong ethos. We transform recycled materials into interactive installations through innovative design, engineering and technology.
The fundamental truth of our times is that resources are finite. Thinking in cyclical rather than linear terms can change that, reusing and repurposing disposables to maximize their potential, we artistically demonstrate how trash is a source of inspiration and wish to democratize the making of art.
All our modules operate as platforms to present our digital artwork. 3D visuals are fabricated using creative coding skills and synchronized with sounds. We fuse different media through the hacking of machines and sensors. This technique invites people to engage on a multisensory level for a dynamic experience.
The fundamental truth of our times is that resources are finite. Thinking in cyclical rather than linear terms can change that, reusing and repurposing disposables to maximize their potential, we artistically demonstrate how trash is a source of inspiration and wish to democratize the making of art.
All our modules operate as platforms to present our digital artwork. 3D visuals are fabricated using creative coding skills and synchronized with sounds. We fuse different media through the hacking of machines and sensors. This technique invites people to engage on a multisensory level for a dynamic experience.
Digitize in inventory, discover the value
We support our clients in the assessment of materials and components in their existing buildings.
Our service ranges from the digitization as material passports, cost-effective procurement until deconstruction starts and measurable savings of costs, waste and GHG emissions.
We support our clients in the assessment of materials and components in their existing buildings.
Our service ranges from the digitization as material passports, cost-effective procurement until deconstruction starts and measurable savings of costs, waste and GHG emissions.
Fundació Formació i Treball, la Fundació CHM Salut Mental i el Departament d'Arts Visuals i Disseny de la Universitat de Barcelona, col·laboren al projecte de reutilització, reciclatge i economia circular 'Parelles Creatives - Trastos vells'.
Convertir soles de sabata, plàstics que provenen de restes de joguines o roba usada, en productes innovadors, com ara safates de cultiu hidropònic, un rascador de gats, un tendal o un gronxador, no és qüestió de màgia, sinó qüestió de consciència, creativitat i cocreació entre diversos agents. Si a més, a aquesta iniciativa, amb una clara vocació mediambiental, se li suma el valor social que aporta, el resultat és el projecte 'Parelles Creatives - Trastos vells'.
Convertir soles de sabata, plàstics que provenen de restes de joguines o roba usada, en productes innovadors, com ara safates de cultiu hidropònic, un rascador de gats, un tendal o un gronxador, no és qüestió de màgia, sinó qüestió de consciència, creativitat i cocreació entre diversos agents. Si a més, a aquesta iniciativa, amb una clara vocació mediambiental, se li suma el valor social que aporta, el resultat és el projecte 'Parelles Creatives - Trastos vells'.
El projecte comunitari Caixa d'Eines i Feines ofereix la possibilitat de compartir recursos per allargar la seva vida útil, reduir la producció de residus i ser un estalvi per a les famílies.
La reutilització esdevé una activitat necessària i fonamental en la reducció dels residus generats per l’acció humana i en la lluita global per un món més sostenible.
En els darrers anys, la conscienciació sobre aquesta pràctica s’ha vist palesa en l’aparició d’una sèrie d’iniciatives i projectes destinats a donar una segona vida a productes que encara es troben en ús. A continuació, us oferim un recull de propostes i banc de recursos impulsats per entitats sense ànim de lucre
En els darrers anys, la conscienciació sobre aquesta pràctica s’ha vist palesa en l’aparició d’una sèrie d’iniciatives i projectes destinats a donar una segona vida a productes que encara es troben en ús. A continuació, us oferim un recull de propostes i banc de recursos impulsats per entitats sense ànim de lucre
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Fixperts is a learning programme that challenges young people to use their imagination and skills to create ingenious solutions to everyday problems for a real person. In the process they develop a host of valuable transferable skills from prototyping to collaboration.
Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies.
Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies.
Why the Buy Nothing Project? The Buy Nothing Project is brought to you by two friends who have worked hard to address the first of the three infamous “Rs,” Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling. Rebecca and Liesl want to address the “Reduce” part of the equation, as well as the lesser-known Rs, “Refuse” and “Rethink.”
/via Kamie Robinson
/via Kamie Robinson
Dumpster diving (also totting,[1] skipping,[2] skip diving or skip salvage,[3][4]) is salvaging from large commercial, residential, industrial and construction containers for unused items discarded by their owners, but deemed useful to the picker. It is not confined to dumpsters and skips specifically, and may cover standard household waste containers, curb sides, landfills or small dumps.
Different terms are used to refer to different forms of this activity. For picking materials from the curbside trash collection, expressions such as curb shopping, trash picking or street scavenging are sometimes used.[5] When seeking primarily metal to be recycled, one is scrapping. When picking the leftover food from farming left in the fields one is gleaning.
People dumpster dive for items such as clothing, furniture, food, and similar items in good working condition.[6] Some people do this out of necessity due to poverty,[7] others for ideological reasons, while still others do so professionally and systematically for profit.[8]
Different terms are used to refer to different forms of this activity. For picking materials from the curbside trash collection, expressions such as curb shopping, trash picking or street scavenging are sometimes used.[5] When seeking primarily metal to be recycled, one is scrapping. When picking the leftover food from farming left in the fields one is gleaning.
People dumpster dive for items such as clothing, furniture, food, and similar items in good working condition.[6] Some people do this out of necessity due to poverty,[7] others for ideological reasons, while still others do so professionally and systematically for profit.[8]
The Zabbaleen (Egyptian Arabic: زبالين Zabbalīn, IPA: [zæbbæˈliːn]) is a word which literally means "garbage people" in Egyptian Arabic.[2] The contemporary use of the word in Egyptian Arabic is to mean "garbage collectors". In cultural contexts, the word refers to teenagers and adults who have served as Cairo's informal garbage collectors since approximately the 1940s. The Zabbaleen (singular: زبال Zabbāl, [zæbˈbæːl]) are also known as Zarraba (singular: Zarrab), which means "pig-pen operators."[2] The word Zabbalīn came from the Egyptian Arabic word zebāla ([zeˈbæːlæ], زبالة) which means "garbage".
A rag-and-bone man or ragpicker[2] (UK English) or ragman,[3] old-clothesman,[4] junkman, or junk dealer[5] (US English), also called a bone-grubber, bone-picker, rag-gatherer, bag board, or totter,[6][7] collects unwanted household items and sells them to merchants. Traditionally this was a task performed on foot, with the scavenged materials (which included rags, bones and various metals) kept in a small bag slung over the shoulder. Some rag-and-bone men used a cart, sometimes pulled by a horse or pony.
In the 19th century, rag-and-bone men typically lived in extreme poverty, surviving on the proceeds of what they collected each day. Conditions improved following the Second World War, but the trade declined during the latter half of the 20th century. However, in more recent years, partly as the result of the soaring price of scrap metal, rag-and-bone-style collection continues, particularly in the developing world.
In the 19th century, rag-and-bone men typically lived in extreme poverty, surviving on the proceeds of what they collected each day. Conditions improved following the Second World War, but the trade declined during the latter half of the 20th century. However, in more recent years, partly as the result of the soaring price of scrap metal, rag-and-bone-style collection continues, particularly in the developing world.
I felt a bit embarrassed putting this site together as it seemed a bit like vanity publishing. At times it was also an odd feeling, 'editing' my past. But then, I had all the images and it seemed a waste to let them rot, and I wanted to try doing a website. Practically, it will also be useful for anyone interested in commissioning work to look at my past stuff.
The Haul Earth Ledger is an opensource fundraising platform aiming to facilitate the transition from a consumer society to a creative, inventive, expressive society. Drawing from similar efforts before it like the Whole Earth Catalog, the Ledger collects tutorials which look at consumer goods as raw materials for further experimentation.
In doing so, the team aims to question the power of the few remaining consumer brands out there clinging to power, while ensuring the lifecycle of these devices is extended to the best of our community's capacity. This, we hope can contribute acknowledging and alleviating the burden our lifestyles have been for our home, the Earth.
In doing so, the team aims to question the power of the few remaining consumer brands out there clinging to power, while ensuring the lifecycle of these devices is extended to the best of our community's capacity. This, we hope can contribute acknowledging and alleviating the burden our lifestyles have been for our home, the Earth.
Die Material Mafia ist ein soziales Unternehmen, dass Reststoffe aus der Industrie, von Messen, Ausstellungen und der Kreativbranche als wertvolle Ressource ansieht und diese der Wiederverwendung zugänglich machen möchte.
À travers cette publication, PiNG partage l’expérience accumulée pendant cinq années d’exploration collective : un mode d’emploi pour celles et ceux qui souhaitent développer des ateliers de réparation citoyen, une ressource pour qui s’intéresse à la question de l’obsolescence des objets électroniques et informatiques.
3D printing technology is increasingly being used to aid repair, especially in the creation of spare parts. We invited Bas Flipsen and Julieta Bolaños Arriola to talk about their work in the field and how 3D printing can help solve the e-waste crisis.
3D Printing Industry asked EOS, Spare Parts 3D, DiManEx, Ricoh 3D and Link3D for their thoughts on how 3D printed spare parts could help consumer appliance manufacturers adhere to the legislation, while avoiding large physical stocks of replacement parts and subsequent incurring costs.
Our mighty engineers breathe life into used devices. Purchasing refurbished electronics saves you money while doing right by the planet. Winners all around.
Sustainability is a global issue, but much of our current focus is on the ‘visible’: the plastic waste in our oceans and piles of landfill. But use of our earth’s resources and its impact on climate are equally significant; recycling only recovers a fraction of the resources consumed and can potentially create even more toxic waste.
One typical mobile phone, weighing around 160g, can require up to 35,000g of the earth to be mined, and result in around 85,000g of waste, before you have even opened the box. Add to that nearly 80% of electronics is not recycled properly and the problem is enormous.
Making products last longer, through repair, reuse and refurbishment has the potential to make a substantial positive impact.
This project takes a constructive or solutions approach to this global issue; to identify and shed a light on repairers, re-users and solution providers.
We used to value our 'things'. They were precious; created from scarce resources and hours of human endeavour. But a combination of consumerism and mass production has lead to 'things' of short life, of less perceived value and much harder to repair and keep working. To compound matters, our ability to repair has faltered, driven by the combination of lack of knowledge, lost skills, product design that inhibits repair and a legal framework that makes it difficult to set up self or independent repair.
The overall project explores ‘repair’ from multiple perspectives: this first part takes a cultural perspective where the practice has not (yet) been lost or forgotten. The second part explores from a European ecosystem and capabilities perspective, with municipalities and community groups educating and re-teaching the public about repair and building new communities. Working with community groups such as Repair Café and the Restart Project provides access to the network of repairers, an opportunity to share ideas and information, and to help promote each other’s work. The third explores the slow rejuvenation of independent repairers.
The overall aim is to shed a light on those providing solutions, so we can make better use of what we have and build more sustainable approaches.
One typical mobile phone, weighing around 160g, can require up to 35,000g of the earth to be mined, and result in around 85,000g of waste, before you have even opened the box. Add to that nearly 80% of electronics is not recycled properly and the problem is enormous.
Making products last longer, through repair, reuse and refurbishment has the potential to make a substantial positive impact.
This project takes a constructive or solutions approach to this global issue; to identify and shed a light on repairers, re-users and solution providers.
We used to value our 'things'. They were precious; created from scarce resources and hours of human endeavour. But a combination of consumerism and mass production has lead to 'things' of short life, of less perceived value and much harder to repair and keep working. To compound matters, our ability to repair has faltered, driven by the combination of lack of knowledge, lost skills, product design that inhibits repair and a legal framework that makes it difficult to set up self or independent repair.
The overall project explores ‘repair’ from multiple perspectives: this first part takes a cultural perspective where the practice has not (yet) been lost or forgotten. The second part explores from a European ecosystem and capabilities perspective, with municipalities and community groups educating and re-teaching the public about repair and building new communities. Working with community groups such as Repair Café and the Restart Project provides access to the network of repairers, an opportunity to share ideas and information, and to help promote each other’s work. The third explores the slow rejuvenation of independent repairers.
The overall aim is to shed a light on those providing solutions, so we can make better use of what we have and build more sustainable approaches.
Hemos preparado esta colección de vídeos, artículos de prensa y blogs en los que aparece el Repair Café Madrid por si eres periodista o estás documentando algo sobre los repair cafés.
The data is clear– zero waste creates over 200x as many jobs as landfills and incinerators! Let’s stop throwing away the chance to create thousands of good jobs. It’s time for our leaders to invest in solutions that work for us and our planet.
Since 2016, Indore’s municipal corporation (IMC) has eliminated garbage dumps, ensured 100% household-waste segregation and converted waste to usable products, such as compost and fuel. It partnered with non governmental organisations for an awareness campaign to change the behaviour of its citizens, contracted private companies to run some waste management operations, used technology, and improved municipal capacity to ensure the implementation of its waste management plan.
We have listed all 210 Resource Recovery Points of the Chennai Corporation. Buyers and Sellers registration is increasing every day.
An Online Marketplace for Recyclable Waste
Let's move away from single-use plastic and put robust reuse systems in place!
A significant part of the waste we generate can be given a new lease of life. In this area, it is worth noting the work done by the Barcelona Metropolitan Area's Environmental Body, with its "Better than new, 100% old" and "Repaired, better than new" campaigns.
Spain’s second largest area just released its zero waste strategy plan with clear objectives for 2025.
Simple ideas, basic skills and everyday materials that help repair & transform your old objects.
Alle StW-design-Objekte werden von dem in London geborenen Künstler Stuart N.R. Wolfe als Einzelstücke entworfen und individuell in einer Berliner Werkstatt in Handarbeit gefertigt.
Das Haus der Materialisierung ist ein Zentrum für gebrauchte Materialien in Berlin. Bei verschiedenen Akteuren könnt ihr von Möbeln, über Holzwerkstoffe, Metallwerkstoffe, Textilien bis hin zu Farben und Schrauben alles finden. Kommt vorbei!
Creating the Junkyard Planet. Adam Minter Talks Circular Economy and Christmas Tree Lights - YouTube
Adam Minter, author of Junkyard Planet, stopped by iFixit Headquarters to give an super interesting talk on rethinking e-waste, the circular economy and the fate of all your thrown away Christmas tree lights. Adam's an amazing author and an even better speaker so we hope you enjoy his talk as much as we did.
In this video I'll be showing you several different things you can make from old, dead laptops!
The lifecycle of your phone has big impacts on the planet.
Upcycling Deluxe ist der größte Onlineshop für Upcycling Design in Deutschland. Entdecke eine ganze Welt voller ungewöhnlicher wiederverwendeter Materialien, denen mit liebevoller Handarbeit in Entwicklungsländern zu neuem leben verholfen wird. Damit helfen wir nicht nur aktiv bei der Wiederverwertung von Müll, wo es keine Recycling-Möglichkeiten gibt, sondern wir stärken gleichzeitig auch lokale Wirtschaft um Armut zu bekämpfen.
Upcycling vs. Recycling
Unter Upcycling versteht man die kreative Wiederverwertung vermeintlich nicht mehr brauchbarer Materialien und Reststoffe in Form von neuen Designs. Die Ausgangsmaterialien werden – im Gegensatz zum Recycling – durch die neue, hochwertige Verarbeitung aufgewertet und sind daher neu hergestellten Produkten mindestens ebenbürtig. So werden ausrangierte Ölfässer zu einzigartigen Lampen und alte Zementsäcke zu Laptophüllen umfunktioniert.
Upcycling vs. Recycling
Unter Upcycling versteht man die kreative Wiederverwertung vermeintlich nicht mehr brauchbarer Materialien und Reststoffe in Form von neuen Designs. Die Ausgangsmaterialien werden – im Gegensatz zum Recycling – durch die neue, hochwertige Verarbeitung aufgewertet und sind daher neu hergestellten Produkten mindestens ebenbürtig. So werden ausrangierte Ölfässer zu einzigartigen Lampen und alte Zementsäcke zu Laptophüllen umfunktioniert.
Don’t let the name fool you: WesternTrash is waste-neutral and 100% sustainable. The materials are upcycled or recyclable, the packaging is reusable, and bottles are sourced locally in Berlin. It’s about taking trash out of the system without putting any back.
Recycleye has partnered with academics at leading universities to create WasteNet; the world’s largest dataset for waste, holding over 2.5 million training images created by deep learning and computer vision.
These datasets are refined by weight and brand-level detection enabled through Recycleye’s vision system. This technology holds world-leading accuracy that has disrupted the waste industry, and is revolutionising the current waste infrastructure.
These datasets are refined by weight and brand-level detection enabled through Recycleye’s vision system. This technology holds world-leading accuracy that has disrupted the waste industry, and is revolutionising the current waste infrastructure.
Precious Plastic exists to reduce plastic waste.
Sometimes we do it through boosting recycling. Sometimes through new biodegradable materials. Some other time by adopting zero waste lifestyles.
Whatever works.
Sometimes we do it through boosting recycling. Sometimes through new biodegradable materials. Some other time by adopting zero waste lifestyles.
Whatever works.
The project’s main output will be an integrated approach to supporting citizen repair: a digital infrastructure that supports self-repair, repairing together (in repair cafés or repair centres), and repairing with professional support. To sustain this infrastructure beyond the project lifetime, business and policy models will be developed with a view to setting up a European Open Repair Data Platform.
The novel way to tackle waste from electrical and electronic goods is to encourage the public to make use of local repair cafes and workshops which are increasingly popular on the continent. Here, individuals can access 3D printers and specifications for parts to repair their machines and devices thus taking away the need to replace with a new product and so empowering individuals to ‘citizen repair’.
La población española genera más de 400 kilos de basura al año por persona.
Solo un 20% de esos 400 kilos se recicla, mientras que el 60% acaba en vertederos. El volumen de residuos que genera la ciudad supone un enorme impacto en el consumo de energía y en el medio ambiente.
En MARES creemos que estos residuos se pueden gestionar de otra forma. Podemos alargar la vida útil de los objetos, reutilizarlos y repararlos. En este terreno hay un enorme abanico de posibilidades para crear empresas e iniciativas: desde el reciclaje de residuos hasta el reciclaje de muebles, de juguetes, de ropa o de comida. Es posible romper con la lógica del usar y tirar, y sustituirla por una economía que apueste por reciclar, reutilizar y reparar.
Solo un 20% de esos 400 kilos se recicla, mientras que el 60% acaba en vertederos. El volumen de residuos que genera la ciudad supone un enorme impacto en el consumo de energía y en el medio ambiente.
En MARES creemos que estos residuos se pueden gestionar de otra forma. Podemos alargar la vida útil de los objetos, reutilizarlos y repararlos. En este terreno hay un enorme abanico de posibilidades para crear empresas e iniciativas: desde el reciclaje de residuos hasta el reciclaje de muebles, de juguetes, de ropa o de comida. Es posible romper con la lógica del usar y tirar, y sustituirla por una economía que apueste por reciclar, reutilizar y reparar.
This article examines people’s responses to the material objects they inherit or discover in their homes. Reflecting on interviews with inhabitants of a variety of English domestic interiors, the author explores the meanings, values and beliefs involved in choices to retrieve, retain, reposition or replace material residues from the home’s recent or distant past. Participants’ responses reveal how beliefs about the past and its objects become imbricated in homemaking practices, locating home as shared, both spatially and temporally, and enhancing or challenging senses of belonging. In particular, objects left by previous inhabitants are endowed with degrees of agency as part of the identity of home. Responses reflect a belief in the continuing presence of the past. Many objects require a form of negotiation – including rituals of appeasement or containment – expressing an entangled relationship between the heimlich and unheimlich in everyday homemaking practices.
Informal recycling networks in the Global South have stimulated debates about political economies of recycling in post-colonial contexts. This article retrieves the underrated Marxian notion of use-value to explore how used plastic materials are revalued in the plastic recycling networks of Kolkata, India. Focusing on the role of scrap shops within recycling networks, the relation between informal and formal economic spaces is discussed with reference to Sanyal’s (2007) distinction between needs-based and accumulation economies. It is argued that scrap shops perform the crucial role of translating concrete use-value of wasted plastics into new potential social use-value. Thereby, the analysis contributes to understanding the transformation of value between informal and formal economic space in post-colonial political economy of recycling in India.
1. Acquérir un "socle commun" : maitriser ce que représente et pèse le secteur du réemploi et de la gestion des déchets (enjeux, organisation, acteurs majeurs)
2. Situer le rôle d’agent valoriste dans ce panorama, et à son échelle, par des approches liées à la technique et à la posture professionnelle
Pour qui ?
Cette formation est ouverte aux personnes travaillant dans une structure du secteur du réemploi, du recyclage dans l’ESS, ou exerçant des fonctions en lien avec la collecte, le tri et la valorisation d’objets et matériaux au sein de collectivités et opérateurs privés.
Pour les personnes en reconversion professionnelle ou portant un projet d’entrepreneuriat dans le secteur du réemploi, merci de nous contacter pour étudier les possibilités de suivre la formation.
Cette formation est ouverte aux personnes en situation de handicap.
Si vous êtes est en situation de handicap, nous vous invitons à nous contacter rapidement pour étudier et confirmer les possibilités d’accueil en formation, et mettre en place les moyens nécessaires à votre participation.
2. Situer le rôle d’agent valoriste dans ce panorama, et à son échelle, par des approches liées à la technique et à la posture professionnelle
Pour qui ?
Cette formation est ouverte aux personnes travaillant dans une structure du secteur du réemploi, du recyclage dans l’ESS, ou exerçant des fonctions en lien avec la collecte, le tri et la valorisation d’objets et matériaux au sein de collectivités et opérateurs privés.
Pour les personnes en reconversion professionnelle ou portant un projet d’entrepreneuriat dans le secteur du réemploi, merci de nous contacter pour étudier les possibilités de suivre la formation.
Cette formation est ouverte aux personnes en situation de handicap.
Si vous êtes est en situation de handicap, nous vous invitons à nous contacter rapidement pour étudier et confirmer les possibilités d’accueil en formation, et mettre en place les moyens nécessaires à votre participation.
Für Upcycling schlägt mein Herz! Materialien, die eigentlich Müll sind, inspirieren mich zu neuen Designs. Wir brauchen mehr Ideen, statt mehr Ressourcen!
Re-cycling findet immer statt, früh oder spät, mit oder ohne unser Einverständnis. Upcycling dagegen öffnet den geschlossenen Kreis des Recyclings, um ihn in eine aufsteigende Spirale zu verwandeln: Obsoletes neu zu arrangieren, damit etwas Besseres entsteht, etwas Überlegenes. Dies geschieht nicht ohne menschliche Entscheidung, ohne Kurswechsel, ohne Politik.
Nachhaltiger leben in Berlin
Nachhaltiger essen, Müll vermeiden, Umwelt und Klima schützen.
Nachhaltiger essen, Müll vermeiden, Umwelt und Klima schützen.
Mit restado findest Du Baustoffe aus Rückbau und Überbestellung. Indem wir diesen Baustoffen ein zweites Leben ermöglichen, sparen wir Emissionen, Ressourcen und Müll. So kannst auch Du die Umwelt schonen.