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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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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November 19, 2015 - Resources : Blog

‘Wasteful’ thinking?
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Josie Warden asks if the language we use to discuss materials and waste is compatible with moving to a circular economy.
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October 29, 2015 - Resources : Blog

The plastic bag levy – a missed opportunity for behavioural change
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Alex Bryan asks if the introduction of the recent plastic bag levy in England has been a missed opportunity to catalyse further behaviour change.
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October 27, 2015 - Resources : Blog

Maker Skills – a new hope for the Circular Economy?
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RSA Fellow Anna Lowe asks if makers and small scale manufacturing are a solution to post-consumer waste in a circular economy.
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October 5, 2015 - Resources : Blog

How can we create a clean circular economy?
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Dr Michael Warhurst, FRSA, Executive Director, CHEM Trust, asks how can we create a clean circular economy
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July 15, 2015 - Resources : Blog

Redesigning the razor – Life Cycle Assessment
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This is the fourth installment in a series of blogs in which we explore how to design a product for circularity. Here, Great Recovery Intern Sebastian de Cabo Portugal discusses Life Cycle Assessments. When designing a product for circularity it is often difficult to know where to begin. Therefore, to...
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June 30, 2015 - Resources : Blog

Redesigning the Razor – Teardown
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This is part three of the series of blogs following product designer Sebastian de Cabo, as he designs a razor to work within a circular economy. This instalment concentrates on the disassembly of a variety of razors and accessories in order to then carry out a Life Cycle Assessment...
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June 17, 2015 - Resources : Blog Video

Redesigning the Razor – What’s the best option out there?
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This is part two of the series of blogs in which the Great Recovery will explore how to design a product for circularity. This post will concentrate on the research stages of the product development – outlining the information we gathered from desk based and direct research like interviews...
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