Circular Economy
Aquarium of the Pacific Tickets: What Visitors Need to Know
Long Beach sits on the eastern edge of the Southern California Bight, where the southward-flowing California Current meets warmer water moving north…
Circular Economy
Textile recycling technologies for mixed fiber waste
The central problem in textile recycling is not collection. It is separation.
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Superblue Miami tickets: is the experience worth the price?
The fifty-thousand-square-foot envelope at 1101 NW 23rd Street doesn't announce itself. Across from the Rubell Museum in Allapattah, the building…
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Mass balance in recycling: greenwash or necessity?
When a plastic package carries a claim about recycled content, most of us picture a fairly simple journey: an old bottle is collected, processed…
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rPET supply dispute: how fashion disrupts bottle loops
The European beverage packaging sector provides more than 70% of the PET material entering Europe’s recycling system but receives only about 30% of…
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The Starbucks cup trial: why circular loops break
Starbucks’ disposable cups account for roughly 40% of its annual packaging volume. In fiscal year 2022, only 1.2% of beverages were served in…
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E-waste recycling: brand responsibility or collective schemes?
The central dispute in e-waste policy is not whether manufacturers should pay for discarded electronics. It is where that responsibility should land…
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Remote employee e-waste: setting up a return policy
Corporate sustainability statements tend to promise a closed loop: devices are recovered, data is erased, useful materials return to production, and…
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Chemical recycling: is it a viable solution for plastic waste?
A plastic food tray, rinsed and dropped into the bin. The filmy wrapper around a delivery parcel. The bottle cap that survived the dishwasher.
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Battery passport rules: what the new EU data mandates mean
The EU Battery Passport is not primarily a consumer-facing label. It is a compliance system attached to a physical battery, with a QR code acting as…
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Renewcell bankruptcy: why circular fashion is stalling
Renewcell filed for bankruptcy in a Stockholm court on February 25, 2024, after failing to turn a technically functioning textile-recycling plant…
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Bioplastic contamination in Oregon composting facilities
By the time the March 2019 open letter from Oregon’s composting coalition appeared, the word “compostable” had already done considerable rhetorical…