Making circular living easy for people is the key to achieving our sustainability goals. The take-make-waste linear economy has excelled at making the disposal of products and packaging easy, but only if you consider the landfill an environmentally responsible solution (it’s not). Now we need to make collecting and reusing items as convenient as tossing packaging in the trash after […]
Earth911 Podcast: Seeing the How of Circular Customer Experience With Allen Adamson
Can companies build circular services into their customer experience to earn a trusted relationship with the 81% of consumers who say they will buy more products and services from brands that help them live sustainably? We often talk about the circular economy and its benefits for people and the planet. Still, for many, the circular economy sounds like a lot […]
Join the Battle To Invent a Sustainable, Circular Economy
Earth Day has grown into Earth Week and Earth Month. But the battle to reinvent our economy to prevent severe climate change, reduce waste, and improve recycling is a year-round challenge. Humanity’s project for the 2020s is both simple and the hardest thing we have ever done. We must reinvent our society and bring it into harmony with the planet’s […]
Earth911 Podcast: Nexus Circular CEO Jodie Morgan on Plastic Recycling Progress
The evolution of plastic recycling is essential to cleaning up a plastic-addicted world and eliminating the need for oil extraction. Meet Jodie Morgan, CEO of Nexus Circular, who discusses the company’s progress and a flurry of news that has placed it at the forefront of the next generation of plastics recycling. In June of 2021, we talked with Jeff Gold, […]
Best of Earth911 Podcast: Deloitte’s Naba Sengupta Says Sustainable Shopping Stays Strong During the Downturn
Four out of 10 shoppers chose sustainable products and services in late 2022 despite the economic downturn. But higher prices are making them think harder and longer about their spending, which means they welcome more information that helps them make environmentally responsible decisions. Naba Sengupta, senior manager at Deloitte Advisory’s Sustainability, Climate & Equity practice, discusses the results of a […]
Earth911 Podcast: Carbios’ Emmanuel Ladent on the Dawn of Enzymatic Plastic Recycling
Is plastic recycling at a turning point? Meet Emmanuel Ladent, CEO of Carbios, a Clermont-Ferrand, France-based company that has developed an enzymatic plastic recycling technology that promises to make plastic a circular material with 95% yields, comparable to aluminum. The Carbios technology recycles polyethylene terephthalate, or clear and colored PET, better known as plastic #1, which is the basis for […]
Best of Earth911 Podcast: Beni’s Sarah Pinner on Making Shopping for Reused Clothing Fashionable
The clothing we wear is a source of carbon emissions and landfill waste. Sarah Pinner, co-founder and CEO of Beni, introduces a new plugin for Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari browsers that helps shoppers find reused alternatives to new clothing. Beni makes thrift shopping easy with a digital helping hand, and the team is working to add environmental impact information […]
Earth911 Podcast: Deloitte’s Naba Sengupta Says Sustainable Shopping Stays Strong During the Downturn
Four out of 10 shoppers chose sustainable products and services in late 2022 despite the economic downturn. But higher prices are making them think harder and longer about their spending, which means they welcome more information that helps them make environmentally responsible decisions. Naba Sengupta, senior manager at Deloitte Advisory’s Sustainability, Climate & Equity practice, discusses the results of a […]
Earth911 Podcast: William Ulrich on Learning From Y2K To Design the Circular Economy
What do the response to climate change and the Y2K computer bug — which required hundreds of thousands of technology workers to spend several years fixing in the 1990s to prevent catastrophic errors when the date turned over to Jan. 1, 2000 — have in common? Both are complex problems that reach into every corner of our lives. Y2K showed […]
Earth911 Podcast: Mebl’s Mona Chun and Michael Hirschhorn Introduce the Circular Design Glossary
Michael Hirschhorn and Mona Chun, co-creators of The Circular Design Glossary, introduce the new guide to understanding the future of furniture design. It was developed by Mebl | Transforming Furniture, where Richard and Mona are founder/CEO and chief operating and sustainability officer, respectively, in partnership with the Sustainable Furnishing Council. Our homes are the center of our lives and a […]