Swedish-made brake innovation boosts sustainability in EVs, HEVs
Swedish company Automotive Components Floby has relaunched its SiCA Light product – an aluminium brake disc with silicon carbide particle reinforcement.
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Maine outlaws single-use Styrofoam, as first state to sign ban into law
ByThe Circular Economy Team May 22, 2019 January 22, 2020
Maine has banned single-use food and drink containers made from polystyrene foam, commonly known as Styrofoam, becoming the first state to do so.
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Circular economy: MEPs call for tighter EU consumption and recycling rules | News | European Parliament
Parliament adopted comprehensive policy recommendations to achieve a carbon-neutral, sustainable, toxic-free and fully circular economy by 2050 at the latest. The report, adopted today with 574 votes in favour, 22 against and 95 abstentions, is a response to the Commission's Circular Economy Action Plan. Binding 2030 targets are needed for materials use and our consumption footprint, covering the whole lifecycle of each product category placed on the EU market, MEPs stress. They also call on the Commission to propose product-specific and/or sector-specific binding targets for recycled content.
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Investing in the circular economy can save 'billions of euros', says Circul'r director Jules Coignard
ByThe Circular Economy Team November 13, 2019 January 22, 2020
"The circular economy is not only respectful of the environment, but it can mean saving billions of euros," said Jules Coignard, the director and co-founder of the circular economy platform Circul'r at a conference on the circular economy yesterday at the Barcelona campus of TBS Business School. Founded in 2014, Circul'r is a Paris-based network of over 500 companies around the world in the circular economy. Its platform connects startups and companies to co-create circular economy solutions.
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Spotify Shows The Way To A Content Economy
ByThe Circular Economy Team January 28, 2019 January 23, 2020
Last November, Marc Engel, Unilever's Chief Supply Chain Officer, told me about Spotify's brilliant algorithms for finding and serving music to listeners. I immediately signed up for the premium service.
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Research reveals location and intensity of global threats to biodiversity –
Using a novel modelling approach, new research published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals the location and intensity of key threats to biodiversity on land and identifies priority areas across the world to help inform conservation decision making at national and local levels. A team of leading researchers have produced global maps for the six main threats affecting terrestrial amphibians, birds and mammals: agriculture, hunting and trapping, logging, pollution, invasive species, and climate change. Results show that agriculture and logging are pervasive in the tropics and that hunting and trapping is the most geographically widespread threat to mammals and birds. There are sizeable continental areas in which there is more than a 50% chance that any particular amphibian, mammal or bird species is threatened by logging, hunting and trapping, agriculture, invasive species or climate change.
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Video: World's Largest Cruise Ship, One Step Closer To Completion
Four days, 1,550 nautical miles, 500 workers and the world's largest cruise ship – Royal Caribbean's new ship Wonder of the Seas is one step closer to completion. Here's an exclusive look at the fifth ship in the cruise line's iconic Oasis Class successfully carrying out its first set of sea trials to ensure it's in ship shape. A key milestone in the construction process for new ships, the trials entail pushing the ship to its limits during a series of performance tests across the propulsion, navigation, engine performance systems and much more. Debuting in March 2022, Wonder is set to build on the signature features and experiences the game-changing class of ships have touted since first revolutionizing the cruise industry more than a decade ago.
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