March 16, 2016 - Resources : Blog

Recycling: the USB plug for a circular economy
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Sandy Rodger is an engineer and business leader, who held senior roles in manufacturing, supply chain and R&D, with Unilever and Diageo, before joining the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in 2013 to lead project MainStream. He now works freelance, supporting organisations with their transition to the Circular Economy. Read his...

February 9, 2016 - Resources : Blog

Why is the Circular Economy transformational (and not just a smaller elephant)?
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Sandy Rodger is an RSA Fellow and business leader, who held senior roles in manufacturing, supply chain and R&D, with Unilever and Diageo, before joining the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in 2013 to lead project MainStream. He now works freelance, supporting organisations with their transition to the Circular Economy. This...
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February 2, 2016 - Resources : Blog

The New Plastics Economy – a breakthrough, and not only for plastics
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Sandy Rodger FRSA reflects on the recent report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Project MainStream - The New Plastics Economy

January 28, 2016 - Resources : Blog

Second Life SolidWool
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Steven Parsons explains the challenges of end of life recovery for mixed fibre carpets, and talks about a recent collaboration between his organisation Wools of New Zealand and SolidWool.

January 15, 2016 - Resources : Blog

Easily recycle your old furniture – response to our report
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Following the release of our Rearranging the Furniture report, we were pleased to hear from furniture retailer, Furniture Choice, about their initiative to support recycling and reuse.

January 4, 2016 - Resources : Blog

Reclining to Recycling – response to our furntiture report
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Sofabedsofa got in touch after hearing us on Radio 4 talking about the need to rethink the waste we create from sofas. After hearing the importance of keeping fire labels intact they were keen to stress this to their customers, and to encourage them to ‘rehome’ rather than dump their...

December 17, 2015 - Resources : Blog

An appetite for filming waste
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The Great Recovery has been very fortunate to work with Paul Wyatt, the talent behind our collection of films. Here he explains how he has used the films to challenge perceptions of waste and sustainability. Colleagues in the creative industry were surprised that I’d joined The Great Recovery as...

December 7, 2015 - Resources : Blog

Jobs that don’t exist yet
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Learn 4 Life (L4L) are a web broadcasting organisation providing information and content about innovation in education in the UK and abroad. We met them at Fab Lab during an event we held as part of Make:Shift:Do. They came along with a keen and talented group of primary school...

November 24, 2015 - Resources : Blog

Summer residents: Sophie Zajicek
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Over the summer of 2015 RSA Great Recovery hosted a number of Summer Design Residents at Fab Lab London. These young designers were all developing circular economy projects, and were seeking out access to machinery and circular economy expertise to help them make their ideas a reality. Sophie Zajicek, a...
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