circular economy
Sustainable Phosphorus Use in UK Agriculture workshop at Cranfield University
Biosolids are a good example of the circular economy conundrum. We need to re-use all types of resources - even human waste - because, as the United Nations has reported, the over-use of the planet’s ...
‘Grill the Aspiring Geeks’ – Cranfield University stories from the Disruptive Innovation Festival
We recently took part in The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF), a three-week-long online festival of 'disruptive' ideas (from November 6th to 24th 2017), which is free and accessible to everyone. The festival challenged us to think about ...
Helping circular economy business leaders see beyond their own time
"The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time." - T.T. Williams The quote resonates. The eyes of the future are upon ...
How circular economy thinking and learning is essential for business
The circular economy is your biggest challenge and your biggest opportunity. Celebrated as a catalyst for disruptive innovation, it can still result in nothing more imaginative than recycling initiatives. Businesses in industries with recyclable materials ...
What makes Cranfield an ideal place to dive deep into the circular economy?
The answer may be simple; coffee capsules. Halo Coffee, supported by Cranfield University, have developed the world’s first fully compostable capsule. No longer must we wait 200 years for our coffee capsules to degrade; instead, ...
The rebirth of the manufacturing sector
When it comes to careers at the heart of the action in terms of world-changing technologies and wealth generation, then manufacturing is the place to look. In the shadow of ICT over the past 30 ...