Finnish food manufacturer Fazer has announced a €40 million investment into a new factory for oat-based healthy sugar alternative xylitol, which is said to be an example of state-of-the-art circular economy innovation.
Source: globalcosmeticsnews.com
By 2050, an estimated 10 billion people will live on Earth. To provide them with a healthy diet, eating habits need to change.
The gaming industry has been one of the major beneficiaries of the stay-at-home orders issued globally during the Covid-19 pandemic – but are the gains sustainable?
Prada’s chairman Carlo Mazzi discusses the group’s approach to all things digital ahead of the second “Shaping a Future” event.
In 2013, people around the globe bought more than 1.8 billion mobile phones. But now, nearly half of them are most likely in landfills or at homes, sitting there without any use, as their owners upgrade to newer versions. Imagine, however, if these devices went back to the manufacturers once their lifespan came to an end in order to be turned into new mobile phones. How much would that save the manufacturer in terms of raw materials and time? Or what would be the result if these devices didn’t have to be replaced because they were easily repairable and upgradable? This is what could be called a “Circular Economy” approach, a new model of production and consumption that thinks of our impact on the environment and our society as a whole.
Packaging News Editor Philip Chadwick believes that there has been a shift in focus on the single use debate.
Many modules use the UN Sustainable Development Goals to provide a planetary framework for change, and to explore where architecture and design can intervene. As part of the RIBA’s ‘Decade of Action’, James Soane, Research Director at the LSA, contributed a piece outlining the role the UN’s SDGs…