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At any point in a circular economy all materials (resource) hold their value. In our resources pages you will find a mine of information and insight to challenge your thinking and inspire you to new ways of doing.


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Transportation in a Circular World

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At Resource, we caught up with our Dutch counterparts at Circle Economy, who have been thinking about the future of electric vehicles.

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It’s time to Wake Up to the True Costs of our Tech

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Hal Rhoades from the Gaia Foundation explores the irony of the digital age and highlights the 'true costs' of our technology. He suggests how we can do our bit...

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Restarting electronics: Addressing the needs of the silent majority

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Janet Gunter explores the possibility that most of us are not obsessed with endless consumption of electronics, and would rather get more use out of the devices we currently...

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Technology Strategy Board funded projects

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The following projects have all been supported by the Technology Strategy Board as part of their New Designs for a Circular Economy competition.

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Finding out what Makers really want

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Nat Hunter, Co-Director of Design at the RSA and one of the founders of the Great Recovery project, introduces us to the new RSA Design project around Making.

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New Life From Old Paint: Update

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Following our blog post by Seymourpowell back in March, we have caught up with the winners of Round 1 of TSB's 'New Designs for a Circular Economy' competition to...

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Uses For Scrap Metal

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Sarah Dawes writes for Wastecycle Ltd about all things related to recycling. Here, she takes us through some alternative uses for scrap metal.

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The Circular Economy goes to school

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Hilary from the Great Recovery team spends the day at St Johns school in Marlborough, taking a teardown to a new audience. The spudgers were out and all over...

Case study

Arjowiggins – Supporting Interviews

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Supporting interviews from participants and hosts of the Arjowiggins Paper Mill tour.

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The Great Recovery was a project by the RSA working with Innovate UK which ran between 2012 and 2016.

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