Turning waste into unique pieces of footwear with the help of an army of slow fashion “heroes”, the Portugal-based startup, Skizo, is giving PET bottles and fishing nets a glorious second life far from the ocean
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Marta Matos Gil tells us about bringing the PET industry together to co-engineer solutions that put nature back in the center of systems thinking.
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Bioplastics, biodegradable packaging and other nature-based solutions, offer enormous potential for reducing the industry’s reliance on virgin fossil fuel feedstocks. But not without its challenges.
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Moving from a “take-make-waste” economic model to a circular world of infinite abundance, a world free of waste is closer than we think.
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A more systemic approach to investing is influencing the flow of money away from old ways of financial thinking towards new solutions that push living assets to the fore. The growing importance of “non-financial factors”, environmental, social and governance considerations, in determining the flow of funds from a rapidly expanding pool of investors and banks
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From take-make-dispose to a re-cyclical model, PET holds the key to reaching the world’s recycling goals. The world has had a logo for recycling since 1970, when student Gary Anderson won a competition to design a symbol with his easily recognisable Mobius loop. Sponsored by the Container Corporation of America, it was hoped that the
Identifying the challenges that need to be overcome in the journey towards a world free of waste One of the highlights of the seismic shift in people’s attitudes towards plastic, and sustainability in general, in the last five years has been the response from brands, entrepreneurs and activists re-thinking the plastics industry. The New Plastics Economy
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There’s no going back for brands that want to win over the next generation of movers and shakers. Consumers have never wielded as much power as they do in the digital age, and the next generation of consumers are conscious of this influence more than any other before them. Almost born with a smart phone
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Why it’s time to take the blame out of the plastics game and move towards whole systems thinking A blame game between environmental activists, plastics producers and consumers has dominated the conversation surrounding the material and the environmental costs of its misuse. This difficult discussion has for almost four decades frustrated the search for an
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Sir David Attenborough sticks the plastic knife into single use plastics and the world wakes up to the problem. *Portrait of Sir David Attenborough in 1984. Image by Neville Marriner/Daily Mail/Shutterstock. It took two people with a profound relationship with the oceans to wake the world up to our irresponsible behaviour unhealthy relationship with plastic.
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