Tag: Circulareconomy
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Recycling is Not Good Enough, Zero Waste Should be the Goal
Recycling is crucial for sustainable economy, but not enough. We should aim to cut waste altogether.
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IoT Times: Intelligent Assets for Circular Economy
Pairing circular economy principles with information generated by billions of connected, intelligent devices, allows for innovation and sustainable use, extending product lifespan and helping create a secondary use for them. The Internet of Things is the core of today’s digitization, and its components provide the infrastructure to connect everything. The flow of information, materials, energy, and […]
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How the Internet of Things Enables the Circular Economy
Ellen MacArthur,founder of Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and a global expert on circular economy,gave a keynote during the first European Circular Economy Summit, held in Barcelona together with the Smart City Expo World Congress. After describing her experience as a sailor, and how going solo around the world taught her about finite resources, she gave a […]
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How to improve Europe’s haphazard recovery of plastic waste
Inconsistency, confusion and lack of common standards all contribute to low recovery, but the solutions are many and would push Europe quickly toward circular economics. When you finish a yogurt, do throw the plastic pot in the trash or the recycle bin? For some cities the pot is trash, for others it’s recyclable, and for […]
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Peterborough: a City Shaping Its Own DNA
Peterborough may not be the first city that pops to mind when one thinks of smart. The press tends to play up the big names like London, Paris and New York. But the smartest cities around the world are sometimes below the radar, transforming their economies with little fanfare. Peterborough’s profile is rising, however. Last November, […]