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Could you become a Restarter?

Posted on May 7, 2013 |
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Janet Gunter, the co-founder of The Restart Project, and a communications specialist who works in global development, gives us an insight into their brilliant volunteer ‘Restarters’. Continue reading →

Tagged with: collaborate / community / e-waste / fixing / Guest Blog

Back to basics: injecting sustainability into the earliest stages of design

Posted on April 30, 2013 |
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Written for the Guardians new Resource Efficiency Hub, Great Recovery project leader Sophie Thomas explores how waste is a design flaw and how we need to rethink products to ensure fewer end up on the mountain of e-waste. Continue reading →

Tagged with: circular economy / design / e-waste

Short Circuit: How the apple of your eye is extracted from the Earth

Posted on April 26, 2013 |
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Teresa Anderson, the International Advocacy Co-ordinator for the Gaia Foundation, introduces the foundations new report ‘Short Circuit’, and discussed the effects our short lived but much lusted after gadgets. Continue reading →

Tagged with: e-waste / Guest Blog / rare earth metals

Plastic, plastic, everywhere but not a drop to use

Posted on April 1, 2013 |
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Alexie Sommer, Director of Communications for Thomas.Matthews, recounts her experience volunteering for a beach clean up in Hawaii. Continue reading →

Tagged with: Guest Blog / plastic

I, Pencil

Posted on March 18, 2013 |
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Lewis Foster is a designer/filmmaker and a recent graduate of LCC. He is particularly interested in what goes into the products we consume on a daily basis. Here he tells us about his project, I, Pencil. Continue reading →

Tagged with: design / education / elements / Guest Blog
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We’ll be inviting guest bloggers to contribute here, please email us if you have an idea for an article.

Featured Blogs

See what people are saying about The Great Recovery and our workshops with these featured external blogs. If you have written a blog about The Great Recovery and want to see it here on the site, please get in touch.

New Year, new resource efficiency competitions

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John Whittall, Lead Technologist in Resource Efficiency at the Technology Strategy Board gives an overview of this years competitions on his blog.

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SWEEEP Kuusakoski – What Happens to our Recycled Electronics?

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Robert Beagley-Brown looks at what happens to recycled electronics following his visit to Sweeep in Sittingbourne, Kent.

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My scary toothbrush

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After the Great Recovery tour and workshop at Closed Loop, Dagenham, Sandy Rodger reflects on his shocking toothbrush experience…

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Cornish mining, hardhats, deconstruction & the global supply chain

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Leap design tell us about their day at Geevor Tin Mine with The Great Recovery.

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