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 ...

Since the Industrial Revolution, humanity’s use of natural resources has been basically the same: take, make, throw away. The World Bank’s predictions for global waste generation are chastening: on ...

The Circular Economy is an economic master plan that recommends ingenious ways of modifying the perennial and prevailing linear system of consumption into a circular one. The nascent Circular Economy ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Heather Wishart-Smith is a board director who covers innovation. In the annals of maritime history, few experiences match that of ...

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 ...

These issues are explored in the study Integrating Emerging Digital Technologies into Circular Economy Practices, published in the journal Processes. The research evaluates how emerging digital ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A collaboration between Carlsberg’s Jacobsen Brewery and Danish bakery Jalm&B has resulted in ‘Genbrød’ – a sustainable sourdough bread made from upcycled hazelnuts. ‘Genbrød’ is the amalgamation of ...