July 15, 2015 - Resources : Blog

Redesigning the razor – Life Cycle Assessment
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This is the fourth installment in a series of blogs in which we explore how to design a product for circularity. Here, Great Recovery Intern Sebastian de Cabo Portugal discusses Life Cycle Assessments. When designing a product for circularity it is often difficult to know where to begin. Therefore, to...
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June 30, 2015 - Resources : Blog

Redesigning the Razor – Teardown
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This is part three of the series of blogs following product designer Sebastian de Cabo, as he designs a razor to work within a circular economy. This instalment concentrates on the disassembly of a variety of razors and accessories in order to then carry out a Life Cycle Assessment...
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June 17, 2015 - Resources : Blog Video

Redesigning the Razor – What’s the best option out there?
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This is part two of the series of blogs in which the Great Recovery will explore how to design a product for circularity. This post will concentrate on the research stages of the product development – outlining the information we gathered from desk based and direct research like interviews...
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May 26, 2015 - Resources : Blog

Redesigning the Razor – In pursuit of circularity
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This blog is the first in a series of posts in which the Great Recovery Programme will explore how to design a product with Circular Economy principles at the core of the brief.
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May 13, 2015 - Resources : Blog

Wearable Technology: Destined for landfill?
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Are we turning technology into a new set of disposable products which we use for a short while and then we throw away, just like paper cups?
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January 26, 2015 - Resources : Blog

The Future of Fixing
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Guest blogger Daniel Charny talks about the thinking behind the Fixhub as a prototype for a new type community makerspace for every neighbourhood.
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January 6, 2015 - Resources : Blog

Salvaging materials from a broken printer
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Our guest blogger, Stephen Bell is a volunteer at Fab Lab London. Here he describes his experience of hacking a broken printer in the workshop, in order to find out what materials were present and what he could salvage.
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March 10, 2014 - Resources : Blog

Transportation in a Circular World
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At Resource, we caught up with our Dutch counterparts at Circle Economy, who have been thinking about the future of electric vehicles.
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January 28, 2014 - Resources : Blog

It’s time to Wake Up to the True Costs of our Tech
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Hal Rhoades from the Gaia Foundation explores the irony of the digital age and highlights the 'true costs' of our technology. He suggests how we can do our bit to minimise the negative by-products of tech consumerism.
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