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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.


Blog

I, Pencil

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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...

Case study

New Life from Old Paint

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Chris Sherwin, Head of Sustainability at Seymourpowell, talks us through their winning entry from round one of TSB's 'Designs for a Circular Economy' competition.

Blog

The science behind a Circular Economy

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Victor G. Martinez, Transportation Designer and PhD student at Northumbria University in-development educational tool, Trophec.

Report

Great Recovery Newspaper: E-waste

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Download Edition 1 of our Great Recovery Newspaper, looking at E-waste, from February 2013. Download the web-version here.

Blog

Are things designed to last: Does longevity have a role?

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Following our visit to LMB Textiles recycling facility, Charles Ross, lecturer at Falmouth University, talks about the role of longevity within the textiles industry.

Video

The Great Recovery Workshop: Geevor Tin Mine

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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.

Video

The Great Recovery Workshop: S2S Electronics

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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...

Video

Closed Loop: Nick Cliffe

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

Past event Video

Royal Designers at the Great Recovery

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RSA Royal Designers for Industry, Terence Woodgate and Kenneth Grange, join us for a teardown at SWEEEP Kuusakoski, WEEE processing facility.

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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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