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The Peoples Design Lab

Are you frustrated by stuff you have to throw away? Stuff where recycling or repair seems too difficult? Do you have solutions you want to share? The People’s Design Lab can help.

The Peoples Design Lab

The Gaia Foundation: Short Circuit

The Gaia Foundation: Short Circuit

Resource Revolution Leader: The Designer

Sophie Thomas says that the waste sector is "either on cusp of something great or the edge of cliff" depending on how fast it can react to resource efficiency pressures.

Resource Revolution Leader: The Designer

Creative e-waste Jewellery Making: SHU

What's In My Stuff? engages the public and raises awareness of the chemical elements used in our everyday objects and explores whether an emotional connection between people and high technology devices can be created.

Creative e-waste Jewellery Making: SHU

Fashionable Recycling at LMB Textiles

At LMB, East London, Tickety Boo's Mark Shayler looks at the problem of sustainable fast fashion.

Fashionable Recycling at LMB Textiles

What’s in your mobile phone? at SHU

Dr Hywel Jones from Sheffield Hallam University shows us what's in our stuff by smashing apart mobile phones.

What’s in your mobile phone? at SHU

Engine re-manufacturing at Cat Reman

The Great Recovery Workshop visits CAT REMAN in Shrewsbury where engines are given a second life through their re-manufacturing program.

Engine re-manufacturing at Cat Reman

The Great Recovery Workshop: Geevor Tin Mine

Our first workshop, in Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall. Seeing how tin is dug up out of the ground and how it's used in products.

The Great Recovery Workshop: Geevor Tin Mine

The Great Recovery Workshop: S2S Electronics

S2S refurbish electronics in a really sane way - many e-waste recovery centres crush the whole product, then sort, but S2S repair and refurbish, or take apart by hand those items that can't be fixed.

The Great Recovery Workshop: S2S Electronics

Closed Loop: Nick Cliffe

Nick Cliffe from Closed Loop in Dagenham, talks about recycling PET (used in drinks bottles) and HDPE (used in milk bottles).

Closed Loop: Nick Cliffe

Royal Designers at the Great Recovery

Filmed at SWEEEP, Kent.

Royal Designers at the Great Recovery

The Art of Textile Recycling at LMB

Ross Barry of LMB Textiles gives us a fascinating insight into just what happens to our unwanted clothes and textiles at the family run recycling facility in East London.

The Art of Textile Recycling at LMB

The Goodlife Centre

The Goodlife Centre is an independent learning space situated in Waterloo, Central London, offering practical workshops in DIY, Home Maintenance, and various traditional hand Crafts.

The Goodlife Centre

Resource Revolution

Resource management is shifting from a linear to a circular economy, causing the emergence of closed loop models that power innovation.

Resource Revolution

Wear2

wear2™ is a new textile process technology which allows garments to be selectively disassembled at end of life.

Wear2

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

The Story of Stuff

Video: CRT Recycling Furnace

Filmed during our workshop at Sweeep in Kent, this film takes a closer look at the amazing Nulife glass cathode ray tube recycling furnace.

Video: CRT Recycling Furnace

Resource Security Action Plan by Defra & BIS

"Resource Security Action Plan" by Defra & BIS has been developed in response to private sector concerns about the availability of some raw materials.

Resource Security Action Plan by Defra & BIS

Strategic Raw Materials by Wrap

"Strategic Raw Materials, Recovery Capacity and Technologies" by WRAP: a study into the capacity and technologies for treatment and recovery of strategic raw materials.

Strategic Raw Materials by Wrap

Green economies around the world? by SERI

This new report by SERI reveals, for the ﬁrst time, data on resource use and resource efﬁciency for all countries of the world over three decades.

Green economies around the world? by SERI

Aldersgate Group

Seizing the growth opportunities of a circular economy.

Aldersgate Group

94 Elements

94 Elements is a global filmmaking project, exploring our lives through the lens of the elements. The stories of the elements are the stories of our own lives.

94 Elements

Great Recovery at 100% Design

In September 2012, The Great Recovery hosted a stand at 100% Design, Earls Court. Here are some of the videos of the day.

Great Recovery at 100% Design

Death metal: tin mining in Indonesia

Friends of the Earth is now pushing the biggest smartphone companies to agree and implement a plan that will put an end to the human and environmental problems they cause.

Death metal: tin mining in Indonesia

What’s in my Stuff?

In today’s developed societies we all own an unprecedented amount of “stuff” and nothing is more representative of this than our attitudes to the mobile phone...

What’s in my Stuff?

Systems for a Circular Economy

The Great Recovery has broken down a couple of different circular economy systems into easy to read diagrams.

Systems for a Circular Economy

Great Recovery Pinterest

Take a look at our Great Recovery Pinterest board for visual inspiration.

Great Recovery Pinterest

The Restart Project

The restart project host events, encouraging you to bring along your broken electronics and learn how to fix them.

The Restart Project

Nat Hunter on materials as waste

Nat Hunter has just one minute to tell us about materials as waste, and designing for recovery.

Nat Hunter on materials as waste

Online collaboration board

Find collaborations across design, manufacturing and recovery.

Online collaboration board

New Designs for a Circular Economy

How the ESKTN is helping inform potential beneficiaries of funding for feasibility studies for the TSB's competition.

New Designs for a Circular Economy

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation works with Education and Business to accelerate the transition to a Circular Economy.

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Urban mining

"There are veins of precious minerals that are richer than any goldmine, running through our cities."

Urban mining

iFixit

iFixit are a friendly, helpful bunch of people who care about things and want to make them last longer.

iFixit

What is ‘Design for Recovery’?

Sophie Thomas has "1 Minute to Leave her Mark" on design for recovery

What is ‘Design for Recovery’?

Knowledge Transfer Network Reports

Knowledge Transfer Network Reports

MDF Recovery Ltd

MDF Recovery Ltd has developed a novel, proprietary process to recover wood fibre from waste MDF.

MDF Recovery Ltd

McKinsey & Company

"New business models that rethink ownership can shift value along the supply circle."

McKinsey & Company

Visual Elements Periodic Table

The RSC have created an interactive periodic table, showing supply risk, history and more.

Visual Elements Periodic Table

Enviromental Sustainability Resources

The TSB has created a Environmental Sustainability resource page, containing links to relevant information.

Enviromental Sustainability Resources

_connect relevant links and resources

Resources on _connect compiled by the Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network

_connect relevant links and resources

Fixperts

The Fixperts project connects people: People that are good at thinking, making and fixing meet and help someone in need.

Fixperts

Esource by Hal Watts

An amazing bicycle powered cable granulator to make copper retrieval much easier in developing countries.

Esource by Hal Watts

Materials security special interest group

The TSB has created a Materials Security Special Interest Group to bring together designers, chemists, materials scientists, engineers, product developers and more.

Materials security special interest group

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Resources

Peoples Design Lab

The Peoples Design Lab

The Gaia Foundation: Short Circuit

Resource Revolution Leader: The Designer

Creative e-waste Jewellery Making: SHU

Fashionable Recycling at LMB Textiles

What’s in your mobile phone? at SHU

Engine re-manufacturing at Cat Reman

The Great Recovery Workshop: Geevor Tin Mine

The Great Recovery Workshop: S2S Electronics

Closed Loop: Nick Cliffe

Royal Designers at the Great Recovery

The Art of Textile Recycling at LMB

The Goodlife Centre

Resource Revolution

Wear2

The Story of Stuff

Video: CRT Recycling Furnace

Resource Security Action Plan by Defra & BIS

Strategic Raw Materials by Wrap

Green economies around the world? by SERI

Aldersgate Group

94 Elements

Great Recovery at 100% Design

Death metal: tin mining in Indonesia

What’s in my Stuff?

Systems for a Circular Economy

Great Recovery Pinterest

The Restart Project

Nat Hunter on materials as waste

Online collaboration board

New Designs for a Circular Economy

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Urban mining

iFixit

What is ‘Design for Recovery’?

Knowledge Transfer Network Reports

MDF Recovery Ltd

McKinsey & Company

Visual Elements Periodic Table

Enviromental Sustainability Resources

_connect relevant links and resources

Fixperts

Esource by Hal Watts

Materials security special interest group

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