Who can correct the sick throw-away phenomenon? The answer to this question is existential. Reason enough to deal with this phenomenon in the social design lab of the Hans Sauer Foundation....
Anlässlich des Sonderberichts zur Begrenzung der globalen Erderwärmung auf 1,5oC des IPCC veröffentlichte die Heinrich Böll Stiftung ein Dossier „Radikaler Realismus“. Die Botschaft klar und eindeutig: Die Begrenzung des Klimawandels auf 1,5oC ist möglich und machbar...
/ 10.02.2021
Circular Society Forum 2021
The Circular Society Forum offers anyone interested a several days lasting frame for sharing research findings, field experiences, artistic-creative work as well as exam- ple projects and space for discussion....
/ 28.01.2021
Winter School on Corporate Sustainability 2021
Zero Waste -Instruments for implementing the circular economy in your company...
Circular Economy, general / 27.11.2020
Plastic tax is not a tax
Recycling quotas or tax? A debate that turns in circles when politics don't decide...
/ 15.10.2020
EXCHAiNGE – The Supply Chainers Community
Sustainable Supply Chain Management - Fit for the Future Thanks to the Circular Economy...
The start-up FZ-Recycling GmbH & Co. KG celebrates its first system in operation today. The small, decentralized EPS extrusion plant is built into a container and is used on a large construction site in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. Used EPS insulation material, i.e. styrofoam, otherwise an expensive waste to dispose of, is cleanly processed into compressed EPS directly on site....
/ 24.08.2020
Circular Economy: this is how it works in companies
The plastic crisis has long since reached the economy. Whether critical inquiries from customers or demands from the political side - manufacturers today have to take a very different look at the subject of packaging. The measures proposed by the EU Commission for the circular economy package are an important point of reference here. "Avoid, reduce, recycle" is the motto in the field of packaging. More recycling (also of used plastic from the post-consumer area) is one of the key concepts for reducing the use of resources and...
Circular Economy, general, recycling / 20.08.2020
Initiative New Life
With the subtitle “From throwaway to circular economy”, the New Live initiative has published a magazine and launched an online platform that deals with recycling material made from tire rubber, so-called end-of-life tires (ELT)....
Circular Economy, Uncategorized / 24.04.2020
“State of the art” – How a term can hinder circular development
Outdated association structures and fear of investments prevent environmental protection in the hot-dip galvanizing industry The Corona crisis is currently changing the way we see our lives. What is really important for the survival of industrial societies? In her Circular Economy Package, EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen has explicitly provided that all rules of the game that are being reinvented are based on the “best available technologies”. With the presentation of the “Masterplan for a competitive transformation of the energy intensive industries, enabling a climate neutral Circular Economy...