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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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A New Life for Lifeboats

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Mark Young is a product designer based in Gloucestershire.Here he shares his recent experiences from the RNLI Lifeboat Decommissioning Challenge.

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Service Design Workshop at Fab Lab London

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Service design can refine existing services so they work better within a system, but it can also suggest completely new services that reconfigure the system itself. See what our...

Past event Video

The Great Recovery at Resource Show 2015

The Great Recovery at Resource Show 2015

Sophie Thomas, Director of Circular Economy for the RSA reflects on our innovative stand at the Resource 2015 event in March 2015.

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Hacking the Circular Economy

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Sophie Thomas explains why combining circular economy thinking and make spaces provides the perfect combination for disruptive innovation.

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On the Bins…

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We're all familiar with dropping items into our household bins - this bottle for recycling, that packet for waste - but what happens to these bags and their contents...

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The Great Recovery on BBC 4 ‘You and Yours’

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Sophie Thomas, Director of Design at the RSA, discusses the Great Recovery project and designing for circularity, as part of the Radio 4 programme ‘You & Yours’ 6th April...

Past event

Fab Friday March: To repair is to share!

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Can we fix it? An afternoon exploring the opportunities for using makerspaces to breath new life into our broken household objects.

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One-minute recycling!

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We can all be guilty of slipping the odd plastic bottle into the black bag, but Sebastian de Cabo Portugal, intern at RSA The Great Recovery, reminds us why...

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3D printing: bringing users closer to the factory

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From plastics to chocolate, 3D printing technology is developing rapidly and capturing the attention of a host of industries. But how could 3D printing be used by individuals in...

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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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