Tag: education
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Reducing food waste in the hotel industry with zero waste and circular strategies
by Robert Hattaway Last year saw the conclusion of our 2-year project on food waste, a topic with huge environmental, social, and economic ramifications. Working together with partners NEW STANDARD.STUDIO, Seminaris Hotel, and visitBerlin, we explored this topic in the context of hotel gastronomy, looking at how the circular economy and zero waste approaches can…
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Textile Journeys – an interactive deep dive into Berlin’s discarded textiles
New Years eve in Berlin has just passed, and unfortunately (but predictably) the streets are covered in the waste that an all-out evening of fireworks leaves behind – plastic shards, wooden sticks, damp cardboard and an odd looking red dust. But look a little closer, and in amongst this you’ll see a pair of jeans…
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Building momentum for a circular economy via education
It’s back-to-school time again, and because education is top-of-mind for many of us at the moment, we thought it would be a great time to discuss the role of education when it comes to the circular economy, provide a bit more insight about what the education team has been up to so far, and also…
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Multi-Stakeholder Workshop on collaborative take-back systems for textiles
In light of the incoming sustainability and circularity major legislations at national and European level, the German fashion industry needs to create new crucial partnerships with the textile reversible supply chain. Initiated by the German “Partnership for Sustainable Textiles” and in collaboration with the circularity agency “Closed Loop Fashion”, in a 4 days multi-stakeholder workshop…
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Project Circular School celebrates successful completion
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 of September, the Kreativitätsgrundschule Karlshorst…
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Learn about circular economy, why not online? Sneak peak in our daily work
It has been strange times with lots of opportunities since March. For circular Berlin we faced the same challenge, many of us had to face: „How might we bring our work into an online world, in order not to pause it?” Circular Economy or not, as facilitators the idea of interacting only virtually with known…
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Project Circular School is awarded
Firstly, circularity practices are not part of Berlin schools’ regular syllabus. It is however important to raise awareness on this topic among young students as they represent our future. Secondly, most schools in Berlin are not run taking circular or sustainable practices into account. The Kreativitätsgrundschule Karlshorst is trying to change the latter. That’s why…