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Extended Producer Responsibility: a step forward towards a circular textiles system

Blog 10/30/2024

Progress towards Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy for textiles is real and accelerating. Across the world, EPR schemes are being rolled out. Valérie Boiten, senior policy officer at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and Clara Löw, senior researcher at Oeko-Institut, take a look at the policy instrument.
The Partnership for Responsible Battery and Metal Recycling (ProBaMet) Project starts in Nigeria with visits to lead smelters in Ogun State

Blog 06/12/2024

Researcher Frederick Adjei shares insights into the work and approach of the collaboration with local stakeholders within the ProBaMet Project.
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Ensuring the EU’s long-term access to raw materials

Blog 12/07/2023

The Critical Raw Materials Act is intended to ensure the EU's access to a secure, affordable and sustainable supply of critical raw materials while reducing its dependence on third countries. The European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) will vote on the proposed legislation today. Dr Johannes Betz explains the positive and negative features of the Act.
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Transcript of the podcast: Why do we need a circular economy?

Blog 09/29/2023

The Podcast with Clara Löw for reading.
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Conflicting goals and contentious debates are unavoidable on the path to a circular future

Blog 08/08/2023

Establishing a circular economy is imperative for the transition to sustainability. However, there are some challenges along the way. Siddharth Prakash and Clara Löw offer an analysis and point to some solutions.
The EU Batteries Regulation – a success for the circular economy

Blog 07/26/2023

The EU Regulation concerning batteries and waste batteries is due to enter into force very soon. The Oeko-Institut conducted research in support of the development process and welcomes the Regulation. In our blog, Dr Hartmut Stahl and Dr Johannes Betz comment on this success.
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Waste management in practice in Ghana and Nigeria

Blog 01/05/2023

Tobias Schleicher, scientist at the Oeko-Institut, was on the road in West Africa, where two of his waste management projects are on the home straight. In this blog post, Tobias Schleicher describes his impressions.
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Linking a global plastic pollution agreement with local realities

Blog 12/02/2022

However, in the often abstract negotiations, it is important not to overlook realities at the local level, where action will be needed to implement the agreement.
Waste Management in India: A Woman Fights for the Circular Economy

10/04/2022

Wilma Rodrigues founded the Sahaas Zero Waste company, which now offers comprehensive services that help to retain resources within the cycle.
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Civilisation’s gold: first-ever mapping of the urban mining potential to 2040

Blog 06/28/2022

How large is the anthropogenic material stock in Germany, and how much is it likely to increase? This has now been calculated by a team of researchers at the Oeko-Institut, who have also produced a forecast of the realistic potential to obtain secondary raw materials from urban mining to 2040.
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Innovation diffusion process of the German’s green technology for preventing plastic waste – and its applicability to Thailand

Blog 05/25/2022

Our visiting researcher Napaporn Yuberk is the National Coordinator for the CAP SEA project based in GIZ Office Bangkok, Thailand. She writes about her thoughts on Germany’s innovation diffusion process.
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#CircularEconomy_6: More closed-loop clothing: Textiles must be recycled

Blog 10/27/2021

[Translate to English:] Kleidung wird immer mehr zu einem Wegwerfprodukt. Unsere Analyse zeigt, welche Wege es in der EU für eine Kreislaufwirtschaft im Textilbereich gibt.
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#CircularEconomy_5: Waste compensation as a circular business model in the e-waste sector

Blog 07/20/2021

As we mentioned in one of our previous blogs, everyone seems to be talking about circular business models as a contribution to a circular economy. But not all of these models lead to real progress in addressing social and environmental problems. So what makes a difference? Senior Researcher Tobias Schleicher shares his thoughts on e-waste and waste compensation.
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#CircularEconomy_4: Dealing with complex supply chains and products

Blog 06/17/2021

Circular Business Models are effective, when they operate in short and well-known supply chains.
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#CircularEconomy_3: Only with the right prescription can the circular economy be a remedy

Blog 06/02/2021

Not all Circular Business Models are designed to relieve the environment to the extent that would be necessary.
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#CircularEconomy_2: Fishers take action on ghost nets

Blog 05/11/2021

Andreas Manhart looks at how, with economic incentives and reliable financing, the principle of the Circular Economy can be applied to solve a specific environmental problem.
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#CircularEconomy_1: Will Circular Business Models save the world? [deu/eng]

Blog 04/29/2021

In the #CircularEconomy blog series, some scientists of the Oeko-Institut raise few questions on the current state and potential of Circular Business Models and present their proposals on how the circular economy can really contribute to climate protection.

Extended Producer Responsibility: a step forward towards a circular textiles system

The Partnership for Responsible Battery and Metal Recycling (ProBaMet) Project starts in Nigeria with visits to lead smelters in Ogun State

Ensuring the EU’s long-term access to raw materials

Transcript of the podcast: Why do we need a circular economy?

Conflicting goals and contentious debates are unavoidable on the path to a circular future

The EU Batteries Regulation – a success for the circular economy

Waste management in practice in Ghana and Nigeria

Linking a global plastic pollution agreement with local realities

Waste Management in India: A Woman Fights for the Circular Economy

Civilisation’s gold: first-ever mapping of the urban mining potential to 2040

Innovation diffusion process of the German’s green technology for preventing plastic waste – and its applicability to Thailand

#CircularEconomy_6: More closed-loop clothing: Textiles must be recycled

#CircularEconomy_5: Waste compensation as a circular business model in the e-waste sector

#CircularEconomy_4: Dealing with complex supply chains and products

#CircularEconomy_3: Only with the right prescription can the circular economy be a remedy

#CircularEconomy_2: Fishers take action on ghost nets

#CircularEconomy_1: Will Circular Business Models save the world? [deu/eng]