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In Berlin mit über 3,7 Millionen Menschen gehen pro Jahr und Einwohner*in 85-89 kg Bioabfall verloren (Selbstkalkulation: Abfallbilanz 2017, Stand vor der Einführung der Bioabfall-Sammlung als Pflichttonne). Damit wird der natürliche Stoffkreislauf unterbrochen. Eigentlich könnte aus dem Abfall fruchtbarer Wurmhumus werden. Durch Kompostierung. Und das geht auch in der Stadt....
What a year! 2020 was extraordinary, different, challenging, life-changing, flexible, and other adjectives you can find to describe the whole situation. For us, in Circular Berlin, it was not an exception. We had to find our way to work differently, to adjust to the situation, and to keep on with...
Following the Circular Design Sprint in May, a virtual workshop for material use in fashion, participants from both Germany and the Netherlands met in Berlin to take part in a hybrid policy lab workshop as part of All Good(s) in October. All Good(s) is an ongoing programme to foster connection...
Circular Economy approaches can widely be found on a product and business model level. As Circular Berlin we want to explore from the system level how we can support Berlin’s way towards a circular city and what specific local actions we need in different districts. In our last community event...
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. ...
The project circular school (“Kreislaufschule”) is a creative project format for schools. Through a series of creative and activist projects, students transform their school bit by bit, resource by resource, into a sustainable closed loop school. At the end the school is awarded the “Circular School Certificate". At the end...
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...
The Circular Economy is the solution to address environmental crises through efficient and sufficient resources use. This new way of thinking about future circular systems goes beyond the environmental issues we have to tackle, bringing in debates about how to finance a new system, and what skills we need in...
Im Rahmen des laufenden Projekts über Circular Economy in der Bauindustrie, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem EIT Climate-KIC, sprach Circular Berlin mit Alexandra Decker von CEMEX Deutschland über die Herausforderungen und Chancen der Kreislaufwirtschaft in der Baustoffindustrie. Alexandra Decker ist bei CEMEX Deutschland für den Bereich Public Affairs zuständig. Für das...
For the first time, Circular Berlin in collaboration with TU Berlin organised an Online Summer School. Seven Students with diverse backgrounds from Europe, the UK, Switzerland, and Hong Kong as well as two professionals took part in the three-week long programme. The central question of the Summer School was: how...
