Circular Economy

A bombshell report documents a “decades-long campaign of fraud and deception” from Big Oil and the plastics industry to promote recycling as a solution to the plastic pollution crisis

Circular Economy

‘Retired’ Honda and Nissan EV batteries get second crack at life on California solar farm

Gabriela Aoun Angueira

“This is what’s needed at massive scale,” says Freeman Hall, CEO of Los Angeles-based B2U Storage Solutions

Circular Economy | Fall 2023

Lego says it hit a recycled plastic stumbling block. Do its claims stack up?

Adria Vasil

The Danish toymaker says its prototype recycled plastic blocks had a higher carbon footprint. Is it missing the point?

Circular Economy

The secret to fixing fast fashion’s waste problem

Quynh Do Nhu and Mark Stevenson

Textile recycling is no longer for a few “sustainable” fashion firms – it is quickly becoming a reality that no fast fashion firm can ignore

Circular Economy

How restaurants can turbo charge Canada's war on plastic pollution

Bruce McAdams and Emily Robinson

Restaurants are on the front lines of plastic waste. They need to shift to reusables for Canada to meet zero waste targets.

Circular Economy

The vapes we throw out could be powering thousands of EVs

Chris Bonasia

As demand for lithium soars, there's an untapped trove of the precious mineral in the millions of e-cigarette batteries that end up in landfill

Circular Economy | Summer 2023

Knight Bites: 6 ways to win our battle with plastic pollution by 2040

CK Staff

From eliminating single-use plastic to ramping up refill models and engineering sustainable alternatives, here are six system-changing solutions to our plastic woes