Circular economy
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Circular economy roadmap for plastics, glass, paper and tyres
This roadmap identifies opportunities across the whole supply chain of how waste can be avoided, and materials can be re-used or recycled. In doing so, it identifies new technologies, products, services and industries that can emerge from taking on a circular economy approach.
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Repair Design: a UTS design studies project
The 'Repair Design' project opens up informed, realistic and meaningful public discourse about repair practices, capacities and limitations in an Australian context. This research reframes repair as a design practice, and in doing so openly acknowledges design’s culpability in environmental degradation and waste.
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From rubbish to resources: building a circular economy
Australians generate 2.7 tonnes of waste - per person, per year. Approximately, 40% of this waste ends up in landfill. This report addresses this dilemma in some way, recommending that the rubbish we create must be effectively, efficiently and sustainably dealt with.
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Towards a waste free future
This report examines how technology can transform the waste and resource-recovery sector in Australia, and support the transition towards a thriving circular economy.
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Design for a circular economy: reducing the impacts of the products we use
In this report, the legislation that has helped to drive greater energy efficiency is evaluated as well as recommendations to improve it. This includes ways to cut more energy and address resource efficiency to stop the UK getting through electronics at such an unsustainable rate. This, in turn, will limit significant production impacts like waste...