The consensus is clear: electronics are one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world in terms of volume and environmental impact. For us, Circular Berlin, it was essential to start diving into this sector seeing the urgency it has for more circularity. With the help of five students...
In our community of changemakers, such words as: “mission”, “impact”, “change”, and “transformation” are used quite often. Every new social and environmental organization has set up big and ambitious goals to change the current system towards becoming more sustainable, inclusive, fair and social. Within Circular Berlin, we believe that the...
Shifting from business as usual towards circular economy principles in the construction sector is a long path. To do this: The structure of the market has to change; The demand has to foster new criteria; Circular solutions have to scale up to be applicable; Regulation has to change to make it all possible. ...
Most of us are aware of the detrimental effects that pollution has when it enters our rivers, waterways, lakes and oceans. We have seen the devastating causes of our man-made pollution: beached whales unable to digest food like the one found in Scotland in 2019 with 100kg of trash in...
In 2020 Circular Berlin is part of the project City Loops, with such partners as Provadis Hochschule (Germany), Wuppertal Institute (Germany), CleanTech Bulgaria (Bulgaria), Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (United Kingdom). The core of the project is to bring circular economy thinking for the practitioners using advanced circular economy tools such...
Transitioning to a circular economy requires a lot: business innovation, consumer behavior change, new policy frameworks, community engagement. But one thing has to happen before any of those changes can take place: people need to learn what the circular economy is, and how to make it happen. Behind every business...
Last year Circular Berlin took part in a big project run together with EIT Climate-KIC, building a circular construction ecosystem in Berlin. Of course building the ecosystem is not a one year task, it is a long way to go, but we are glad to keep the ball rolling. During...
Digitalisation and climate change are two important factors that have many influences on how we live, plan and build our cities. Industrial production processes account for about a third of greenhouse gases worldwide and in Europe only about 40% of the materials are recycled or reused. The circular economy is...
Prepared together with Naveedh Ahmed Sekar, M.sc Environmental and Resource Management Materials play a central role in the current Circular Economy debates. Biodegradable? Recyclable? Fair and transparent? Not toxic? Independently of an industry, search for the best material match to the product specification and function is a challenge. It remains the hot...
The recent debates around circular economy tend to focus primarily on product redesign. But is an economy simply about a product or a product business development?If we cover a little bit of theory, the circular economy is an umbrella term for different economic schools of thoughts. Design. ‘Cradle 2 Cradle’ applies...
