by Pollutec | Jul 23, 2020 | Circular economy, Waste - Recycling
On 12 March 2020 the European Commission announced an action plan to promote the circular economy with particular emphasis on the cradle-to-grave recycling of electronic items. The circular economy model, which manifested officially in France in 2015, shows us that an...
by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | Apr 27, 2020 | Circular economy
Nowadays the reduction of a product’s negative environmental impacts, or the inclusion of environmental considerations in the design process, are no longer just the preserve of a few pioneering companies. More and more manufacturers are offering ecodesigned products...
by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | Feb 26, 2020 | Circular economy, Energy
The renewable energy production sectors, still just emerging at the start of the 21st century, are now seeing their costs fall rapidly thanks to technological advances and the economies of scale associated with the increasing installed volumes. Certain sectors are...
by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | Jan 17, 2020 | Circular economy
Accurate knowledge of the quantity of raw materials consumed by an economy is a pre-requisite for any circular economy policy. From this perspective the ad-hoc indicator is the material footprint. This is currently calculated using a methodology developed by Eurostat...
by Anne-Gaëlle Courty-Ahmed | Oct 23, 2019 | Circular economy, International, Pollutec, Sustainable City
The Circular Economy Summit took place at Pollutec on 28 November 2018. The 600+ participants, hailing from 28 different countries, were in major part local governments, institutions, state agencies and private sector representatives. It...
by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | Sep 26, 2019 | Circular economy
This summer, the French government and its General Secretariat for Investment launched three new calls for innovation projects on ecological transition(1). One of them, (“Economie circulaire – Ecoefficience dans l’industrie, l’agriculture et l’eau – “The...
