September 25, 2014 - Resources : Past event Video

The Tipping Point: Where design comes to die
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What happens to stuff we throw away? Our three Design Residents gain some first-hand insight into what happens to products when they are thrown away.
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April 15, 2013 - Resources : 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.
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April 15, 2013 - Resources : 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.
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April 15, 2013 - Resources : 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.
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April 15, 2013 - Resources : 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.
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March 4, 2013 - Resources : 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.
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March 4, 2013 - Resources : 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 those items that can't be fixed.
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March 4, 2013 - Resources : 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).
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March 4, 2013 - Resources : 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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