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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.


Report

The Gaia Foundation: Short Circuit

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The Gaia Foundation and allies have launched a new report 'Short Circuit - The Lifecycle of our Electronic Gadgets and the True Cost to Earth'.

Blog

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

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Teresa Anderson introduces the Gaia Foundation's 'Short Circuit' report, and discusses the impacts our short lived, but much lusted. after gadgets.

Video

Resource Revolution Leader: The Designer

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Sophie Thomas, co-director of design at the RSA and one of the founders of the Great Recovery Project says that the waste sector is "either on cusp of something...

Archived

New business models in High Value Manufacturing

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Innovation in high value manufacturing frequently creates a need for new business models – new and varied ways of creating, delivering and capturing value.

Video

Creative e-waste Jewellery Making: SHU

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What's In My Stuff? explores whether an emotional connection between people and high technology can be created.

Video

Fashionable Recycling at LMB Textiles

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The Great Recovery visits LMB textiles in East London for their latest workshop. Tickety Boo's Mark Shayler looks at the problem of sustainable fast fashion.

Video

What’s in your mobile phone?

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Dr Hywel Jones from the Materials and Engineering Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University shows us what's in our stuff by smashing apart mobile phones.

Video

Engine re-manufacturing at Cat Reman

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

Blog

Plastic, plastic, everywhere but not a drop to use

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Alexie Sommer, Director of Communications for Thomas.Matthews, recounts her experience volunteering for a beach clean up in Hawaii.

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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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