Pacific island of Nauru sets two-year deadline for deep-sea mining rules | Business

Pacific island of Nauru sets two-year deadline for deep-sea mining rules | Business

ByThe Circular Economy Team

The tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru has notified a U.N. body of plans to start deep-sea mining, giving the International Seabed Authority (ISA) two years to complete long-running talks on rules governing the new and controversial industry. Nauru President Lionel Aingimea notified ISA about the mining plans to be carried out by a subsidiary of The Metals Co in a letter dated June 25 and seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

Integra Advances ESG Program: Signs MOU with Trout Unlimited, Engages Warm Springs Consulting for Sustainability Trade-Off Studies, Joins CleanTech Alliance

Integra Advances ESG Program: Signs MOU with Trout Unlimited, Engages Warm Springs Consulting for Sustainability Trade-Off Studies, Joins CleanTech Alliance

ByThe Circular Economy Team

Integra signs Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Trout Unlimited to evaluate potential future habitat reclamation projects within the Jordan Creek watershed. Warm Springs Consulting continues to advance Pre-feasibility Study (“PFS”) trade-off studies focused on responsible mining practices, including carbon emissions reduction opportunities such as electrification and renewable energy options to be potentially integrated into future mine development strategies at DeLamar. Integra joins CleanTech Alliance to collaborate with other companies advancing clean technologies in the northwestern United States.

Recycling – LVMH to recycle textiles in partnership with weturn – APLF.com

Recycling – LVMH to recycle textiles in partnership with weturn – APLF.com

ByThe Circular Economy Team

LVMH has solidified a partnership between several of its fashion maisons and weturn, a company that offers an innovative recycling chain dedicated to unsold textiles from major fashion houses. Founded in 2020, weturn is the first recycling chain dedicated to unsold textiles, rolls of fabric and offcuts from major fashion houses, which are all protected by intellectual property. The company then transforms them into new quality yarns and fabrics that are 100 percent traceable and European-made.
LVMH to date has not named which of its designer brands is recycling textiles. The issue with upcycling recognisable fabrics is that they may end up back in the marketplace when used by a different brand. Companies such as Valentino have seen a branded V-print fabric, uniquely developed for the house, used by designers who found leftover fabric in a re-sale shop on the outskirts of Paris. LVMH will be keen for its repurposed textiles to not be recognisable in the marketplace.

Minimise single-use items

Minimise single-use items

ByThe Circular Economy Team

Single-use items or disposable items are products and packaging that we throw out after only one use. These items are used for only minutes but their impact on our environment can last thousands of years. Even when these items are recyclable, we use up energy and our environment’s natural resources to produce these easily-avoidable items. Avoid first – What’s better than reusing or recycling an item? Avoiding it in the first place. Ask yourself, do you really need it? And if the answer is no, then avoid it.