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An interactive educational toolkit for upper secondary high school educators and students to integrate circular thinking into the classroom.
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.
Explore Berlin-based organizations and projects working in the circular economy field! Click the bubbles to find out more, zoom in, search & filter by circular strategies.
The Internet of Things (IoT) and ubiquitous computing are leading to an increase in objects with a short lifespan - either through breakage, “bricking” by the manufacturer, or discontinued use by the owner. This website documents a virtual workshop that took place as part of ACM DIS 2020, which explored how the configuration of values (e.g., functional, emotional, sentimental and environmental) designed into IoT objects influences the end-user practices of disposal, recycling and upcycling after these objects become defunct or obsolete. Through this lens, we considered potential design strategies that can be instilled during the process of design, to support the continuity of the material life of IoT objects after their “death”.
This course looks at where important materials in products we use every day come from and how these materials can be used more efficiently, longer, and in closed loops. This is the aim of the Circular Economy, but it doesn’t happen on its own. It is the result of choices and strategies by suppliers, designers, businesses, policymakers and all of us as consumers.
In addition to providing many cases of managing materials for sustainability, the course also teaches skills and tools for analyzing circular business models and promotes development of your own ideas to become more involved in the transition to a Circular Economy.
You will learn from expert researchers and practitioners from around Europe as they explain core elements and challenges in the transition to a circular economy over the course of 5 modules:
In addition to providing many cases of managing materials for sustainability, the course also teaches skills and tools for analyzing circular business models and promotes development of your own ideas to become more involved in the transition to a Circular Economy.
You will learn from expert researchers and practitioners from around Europe as they explain core elements and challenges in the transition to a circular economy over the course of 5 modules:
It would change economic logic because it replaces production with sufficiency: reuse what you can, recycle what cannot be reused, repair what is broken, remanufacture what cannot be repaired. A study of seven European nations found that a shift to a circular economy would reduce each nation's greenhouse-gas emissions by up to 70% and grow its workforce by about 4% — the ultimate low-carbon economy
Join this live conversation to hear the stories of two designers, Isatu Harrison and Maxwell Mutanda, from Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. We will also be joined by Hannah Robinson, the lead at the British Council for architecture, design and fashion programmes across Sub Saharan Africa. In this session, we will discuss:
1. The circular economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Who is pushing for this?
2. The role of design in the transition to a circular economy. What does this mean for a rapidly growing youth population?
3. Practical examples of stories and projects already taking place.
1. The circular economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Who is pushing for this?
2. The role of design in the transition to a circular economy. What does this mean for a rapidly growing youth population?
3. Practical examples of stories and projects already taking place.
Moving from a linear to a circular economy means minimising the waste and pollution by reducing, recycling and reusing. The City of Amsterdam aims to redesign twenty product- or material chains.
Products that Flow
Circular Business Models and Design Strategies for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Circular business models and design strategies to inspire designers, marketeers and business developers
Circular Business Models and Design Strategies for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Circular business models and design strategies to inspire designers, marketeers and business developers
Product Design for Circular Business Models
An innovative and practical methodology to unravel a product’s afterlife and systematically evaluate it for new opportunities.
An innovative and practical methodology to unravel a product’s afterlife and systematically evaluate it for new opportunities.
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.
Cette formation permettra d’approfondir les notions clés de la commercialisation d’objets de réemploi pour proposer une offre de produits attractive, des animations commerciales adaptées dans un espace de vente bien organisé.
Il s’agit d’un module d’approfondissement complémentaire de la formation « Métier d’agent valoriste » proposé par les Ecossolies. Il peut être suivi indépendamment du parcours.
Public concerné
Toute personne travaillant dans une structure du secteur réemploi/recyclage ayant une activité commerciale (gestion d’un point de vente, participation à des événements commerciaux). 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 participatio
Il s’agit d’un module d’approfondissement complémentaire de la formation « Métier d’agent valoriste » proposé par les Ecossolies. Il peut être suivi indépendamment du parcours.
Public concerné
Toute personne travaillant dans une structure du secteur réemploi/recyclage ayant une activité commerciale (gestion d’un point de vente, participation à des événements commerciaux). 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 participatio
Als gemeinnütziger Verein wollen wir die Stoffströme in Berlin neu gestalten. Wir tragen zur Gestaltung der lokalen Circular Economy Agenda bei, indem wir uns durch Forschung, Aufbau von Netzwerken und Realisierung von umsetzungsorientierten Projekten beteiligen.
How can citizens, policy-makers and businesses co-design circular and regenerative cities?
Grassroots Economics is a non-profit foundation that has been seeking to empower marginalized communities to take charge of their own livelihoods and economic future since 2010.
Every product has a story
We enable great brands to communicate the origin and impact of their products. Increase engagement by connecting to shoppers’ changing values and help build a better world.
We enable great brands to communicate the origin and impact of their products. Increase engagement by connecting to shoppers’ changing values and help build a better world.
The project will investigate how cultural variation in practical ethics and norms of repair might impact on the interpretation, implementation and contestation of the ideas of a circular and bio-based (CBB) economy.
Through a series of study visits, interviews and other deliberative engagements with practitioners and theorists of repair, it will undertake a discursive and deliberative exploration of practical ethics and norms of repair in contrasting disciplines and cultures, focusing on the prevalence and significance of ethics of care and legibility. It will compare and contrast the interpretations, values and norms revealed in repair practices of restoration, reconstruction, remediation, reconciliation and reconfiguration with those found in CBB economy policy and promotion, so as to derive lessons and recommendations for the effective development of such policy from a better understanding of the normative motivations and constraints influencing repair practices.
Through a series of study visits, interviews and other deliberative engagements with practitioners and theorists of repair, it will undertake a discursive and deliberative exploration of practical ethics and norms of repair in contrasting disciplines and cultures, focusing on the prevalence and significance of ethics of care and legibility. It will compare and contrast the interpretations, values and norms revealed in repair practices of restoration, reconstruction, remediation, reconciliation and reconfiguration with those found in CBB economy policy and promotion, so as to derive lessons and recommendations for the effective development of such policy from a better understanding of the normative motivations and constraints influencing repair practices.
We’re a cooperative in Edinburgh working for a world without waste!
We empower our community to live a low carbon life. Become a member and learn to fix a bike, swap your preloved things, enjoy some rescued food and be inspired by new ideas.
We empower our community to live a low carbon life. Become a member and learn to fix a bike, swap your preloved things, enjoy some rescued food and be inspired by new ideas.