Circular Economy

What was once considered a smart way to reduce maintenance and create the ‘forever’ playing

Inconvenience Store The explanatory label reads: Objects found washed up on the beach repackaged in

Yamaha turns instrument manufacturing wood scraps into upcycled electric guitars https://www.designboom.com/design/yamaha-electric-guitar-craft-upcycled-instrument-manufacturing-wood-09-07-2024/ Teen computer whizz turning

It’s not working – putting off the inevitable Recycling plastic into other materials, only delays

Not only ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ but also ‘reform’ While the recycle mantra is the most

Taylor Swift and Upcycle Newcastle  TS and Upcycle have at least one thing in common,

PICTURE: The right to repair for a sustainable future? (ABC News: Rebecca Trigger) ABC Radio

PICTURE: ‘We can do better than mulch’: an urban tree recovery initiative (Supplied: Revival) Blueprint

PICTURE: The right to repair for a sustainable future? (ABC News: Rebecca Trigger) ABC Radio

PICTURE: How the circular economy is a game changer. Source credit: Charitable Recycling Australia The circular

E-Waste being diverted away from landfill AUSTRALIANS THROW ‘AWAY’ millions of computers, televisions, smartphones and

Make, use, dispose, repeat – again, and again … It works for the electronics industry,

Packaging from fungi Camden Cooke and Amanda Morgan launched Fungi Solutions in 2020 with hopes

The show that shows up the limitations of the linear economic model Explore the many

‘Waste isn’t Waste until it’s Wasted’. That was the theme for National Recycling Week theme 3-12

In the loop for longer – buy refurbished In keeping with Circular Economy principle two: Keep products

PICTURE: Veena Sahajwalla, third from left with Anna Noon, Sam Doove and Gabby Clappison at

Sunglasses get the modular recycled treatment Plastic bottles, while an absolute pain for mother earth can,

The Upcycled Car  It reuses carbon dioxide. It reduces fossil fuels. It returns profits to investors. All rolled into one.   

Central to the concept of the Circular Economy are three core principles At the centre

This dress from trash could last a thousand years. An entrant in the Sustainable Neighbourhoods, Waste

Ecobatt by Ecocycle Woolworths has joined the campaign to keep batteries and mobile phones out

PICTURE: Anna Noon, Warners Bay Area Sustainable Neighbourhood Group and face mask recycling coordinator with

Recycling the TerraCycle way  Everything collected through the Zero Waste Box system is sorted and

Officeworks sets impressive targets Part of the Recycling Near You network in association with Planet

Circular Economy in Lake Macquarie In a recent webinar hosted by Dantia, a business unit

Barry Commoner is not a household name, but he has a few things to say

Polystyrene ‘waste’ recycling at Awaba Lake Mac Council has installed a polystyrene compacting machine (watch Steven Merritt

Self Sustainable Zero Waste Productive Home More than a pipe dream, this is a real

Very important work has been done over the last decade to take industrial ecology and

One of the most insidious problems of our present day is plastic.  It’s everywhere, it’s

The Doughnut Economics model developed by Kate Raworth is one way of illustrating how a

Our current economic model does not line up with our social model as a way

The Circular Economy is on the way – and the sooner the better for the

The Productivity Commission has recently released an issues paper as part of an inquiry into

PICTURE: Stop this waste of people, animals and money – Nature The silly season is

Beyond waste with plant polymers You’re wasting your time, is a common response to suggestions

Reduce waste, buy upcycled and reusable masks We’re all for supporting each other, pandemic or

Ecology and economy are two sides of the one coin. If we are to prioritise

Recycling is good but it’s not nearly good enough Getting rid of the little things

Viewed from a distance Munibung Hill is a treescape of green. On closer inspection she

The Munibung Hill economy has been operating for centuries on the basis of ecological principles

The economy that is the ecology of Munibung Hill produces no ‘waste.’  The circular economy