‘Queen of Recycling’ Isatou Ceesay fights plastic pollution in The Gambia
Isatou Ceesay founded a social enterprise that is helping to fight plastic pollution and empowering women and young people to gain economic independence.
The European Parliament’s bold plan on the circular economy
We must give back to nature more than we extract. The European Union’s circular economy plan sets the guidelines to embrace this paradigm shift.
Amah Ayivi, the Togolese designer creating high fashion with discarded clothes
By recovering clothes discarded in the West, Togolese designer Amah Ayiv gives them new life through his high fashion creations.
Visionaries Marcel Wanders and Ross Lovegrove dialogue on plastics and design
Two world-famous designers, Ross Lovegrove and Marcel Wanders, on the relationship between plastic and design. The stimulus for this conversation was offered by an exhibition at the past Milan Design Week inviting 29 designers to rethink their approach to this (now) demonised material.
Plastic waste as a resource, how design can shape intelligent (re)use
Getting people to consume less is important, but it’s not enough. There has to be a cultural shift, and design is likely to have a key role in transforming our approach to plastics.
Pashon Murray of Detroit Dirt on how composting can make her city cleaner. And inspire its inhabitants
Detroit Dirt has given new blood to a problematic city by promoting the circular economy. We met founder Pashon Murray at Seeds&Chips, where she told us what it means to be both a woman and proud Detroiter.
23 cities commit to a zero-waste future, setting ambitious targets for 2030
On the path toward zero waste, 23 pioneering cities and regions committed to significantly cut the amount of waste they generate, to accelerare the transition to a more sustainable future.
Pete Ceglinski. Even a single Seabin can turn the tide on plastic pollution
Seabin, the device that removes floating waste, has sent ripples all over the world thanks to its simplicity and effectiveness. We speak to Pete Ceglinski, Seabin Project’s CEO, who has dedicated his life to cleaning ocean plastic.
Yona Friedman. Architect, artist, visionary? “I’m a simple human animal”
Yona Friedman is a visionary and innovative architect and theorist. We met him during the inauguration of the installation he made in occasion of the Milan Design Week.
The Freitag brothers. From truck tarps to biodegradable fabrics, thinking in cycles since 1993
It’s 1993 and Markus Freitag, an art school student in the Swiss city of Zurich, needs a waterproof bag to carry his paper worksheets – this is before the era of laptops. He lives near a freeway and many trucks, covered in robust tarpaulin, drive by. This material becomes the answer to his needs and he and