If you needed a clear signal that circular economy thinking has moved fully into the business mainstream from its origins in CSR, you need look no further than the annual meeting of the world’s top ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Sand is everywhere in cities: it’s in the pillars of skyscrapers, the surfaces of roads and the walls of our homes. But sand — specifically ...

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Volatility in commodity markets is making it harder to rely on linear supply chains. Lithium prices, for example, rose by more than 1,000 percent between 2020 and late 2022, before dropping 86 percent ...

How Circular Thinking is Transforming Sustainable E-Commerce. The e-commerce era has not only changed how consumers shop, but also how they return unwanted items. Once an afterthought for many ...

The linear take-make-dispose economy—highly successful in delivering economic development throughout the 20th century—is no longer viable for advancing progress in the 21st century. Our current ...

Across Oman, efforts to manage waste have improved significantly over the past decade. Modern landfills, better collection ...

Sand is everywhere in cities: it’s in the pillars of skyscrapers, the surfaces of roads and the walls of our homes. But sand—specifically river and beach sand needed for building—is running out, and ...

Many many more companies—not just social enterprises, but other ones, too—are including matters of sustainability in their strategic decision-making. And a lot of them also want to add circular ...

We Americans are notoriously bad at saving money. While people in Germany, Sweden and even France save about 10 percent of the money they make, folks in the U.S. save closer to 3 or 4 percent of their ...