Netherlands President of Council of EU in 2015 As part of its desire to make the circular economy a centrepiece of its presidency of the Council of the European Union during the first half […]
Naresh Kumar of Puthar village in Haryana’s Panipat district is among the many farmers who have started farming mushrooms using paddy straw for preparing the compost needed to grow them. This has nearly ended […]
Belgium’s Ecover is already widely known as a sustainability pioneer. The company’s products – laundry powder, washing-up liquid and soaps – are produced from less environmentally harmful ingredients, and are carried in greener packaging. The […]
“Designing products for a circular economy”: this theme has been elected by the European Commission to be discussed during a panel session on June 4th at 2.30pm. For its event Green Week 2014, […]
The garment sector is becoming seriously interested in the recycling of textile fibres to make new clothing. A denim-recycling process was developed as long ago as the mid-1990s by Armani. More recently, the […]
Green growth policies, aiming to improve resource productivity through supply side measures such as supporting eco-innovation or facilitating sustainable use of raw materials, have achieved only relative decoupling since they have inevitably led […]
The 16th European Forum on Eco-innovation will be held in Hannover, Germany, on 7 and 8 April 2014. The Forum will examine enabling factors and challenges of transitioning to a circular economy model in an urban […]