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Global Recycling Day promotes recyclables as the 7th resource – and the only one that is not finite
Launched by the Bureau of International Recycling, the first Global Recycling Day was celebrated on 18 March 2018. Building on the recent surge of interest in the Circular Economy and similar concepts, it will help make the vision of turning wastes into resources...
Discussing the value of recycling with the Director General of UNIDO
What was a dream for me 10 years ago is now happening: top leaders are embracing the notion of waste as a valuable resource rather than a costly problem. In yesterday’s discussion between the Director General of UNIDO and the President and Director General of BIR, the...
Circular economy will work if supported by favourable and efficient national laws
The recent success of the circular economy approach to materials management is nothing short of amazing: it appears to be omnipresent these days. In June, the first World Circular Economy Forum took place in Helsinki, with the aim of kick-starting the transition...
Green Economy: Bridging the gap between talk and practice
Nowadays, not a week goes by without a think tank somewhere in the world discussing ways of achieving a decent life for a growing world population without destroying the planet. This was debated at the World Resources Forum in Peru in October. In Switzerland, the...