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At any point in a circular economy all materials (resource) hold their value. In our resources pages you will find a mine of information and insight to challenge your thinking and inspire you to new ways of doing.


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Cornish mining, hardhats, deconstruction & the global supply chain

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Leap design tell us about their day at Geevor Tin Mine with The Great Recovery.

Past event Video

Great Recovery at 100% Design

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In September 2012, The Great Recovery hosted a stand at 100% Design, Earls Court. Here are some of the videos of the day.

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Death metal: tin mining in Indonesia

A tin miner in Bangka, Indonesia

Friends of the Earth are calling for smartphone producers to implement a plan that will put an end to the human and environmental problems of their products' raw materials.

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Royal Designers at The Great Recovery Workshop

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We were delighted to welcome Royal Designers for Industry, Kenneth Grange and Terence Woodgate, to our e-waste workshop at Sweeep, Kent.

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What’s in my Stuff?

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What's In My Stuff? is an interdisciplinary research project which brings together scientists and artists in order to explore the everyday objects we all own and use.

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Haute Clutture

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“People are being persuaded to spend money we don’t have, on things we don’t need, to create impressions that won’t last, on people we don’t care about” Tim Jackson,...

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Designing for a circular economy

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Gone are the days of sustainable design. Now we have to learn to think about lifecycles, and designers have a key role to play. We live in what’s currently...

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The Restart Project

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The restart project host events, encouraging you to bring along your broken electronics and learn how to fix them.

Video

Nat Hunter on materials as waste

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Nat Hunter takes part in the Blank sheet project, and has just one minute to tell us about materials as waste, and designing for recovery.

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The Great Recovery was a project by the RSA working with Innovate UK which ran between 2012 and 2016.

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