Home / Back Recycling has been a headline trend in circular economy conversations. The real opportunity lies much upstream in the value chain: refuse, rethink, reduce, reuse, repair, refurbish, remanufacture
Home / Back “We can’t afford to shift what we procure to buy sustainable or circular products” when we hear this, the real underlying question is: Can we afford not to? Most procurement teams get stuck in the same loop:
Home / Newsletter Anvarta Spotlight- Issue #6 Welcome to the latest edition of Future’s Blueprint. We’re thrilled to bring you all the latest news, insights, and updates from the industry.
Home / Newsletter The Future’s Blueprint – Issue #5 This month’s insight – Strategies for a circular economy Product Stewardship– The responsibility lays with us As a concept, product Stewardship
Home / Newsletter The Future’s Blueprint – Issue #3 This month’s insight – Materials for a circular economy Biochar – How it contributes to the biological cycle in a circulareconomy?
Home / Newsletter The Future’s Blueprint – Issue #2 A crisis also provides an opportunity… As economies around the world are on the verge of significant downturns, Sri Lanka issued
Home / Newsletter Creating the Future’s Blueprint A campaign to inform alternative ways of consumption Here is our first campaign this year focusing on 10 simple shifts we can make in
Home / Not all circular economy strategies are meant to be equal. In the transition to a circular economy, we often hear about recycling — and while it’s important, it’s
Home / We begin life surrounded by gifts, soft toys, tiny clothes, the colors of care. They mark our beginnings, then slowly fade into drawers, boxes, or forgotten corners of
Home / What are the opportunities for the hospitality industry to better design for a circular economy? You might say – Packaging! Yes, it is an opportunity. But what about
Home / Some things we buy stay with us for years. Others, we use once and forget. How do we access what we require, without locking resources into cupboards, garages, or landfills?
Home / Every celebration glows bright and fades beneath what it leaves behind. Mountains of wrapping paper, ribbons, and packaging tell a quiet story of what gets unwrapped and left behind.
Home / The Rise of Shared-Use Design What if products created more value after each use, not less? Shared-use models are now emerging as a practical lever for optimising resource
Home / Why Repair Still Matters. We live in a world where upgrading feels easier than repairing. But every time we choose to fix rather than replace, we extend the
Home / “Oh my god bro, why is there a box, in a box and another box?” This is what I heard from the living hall when my 9-year-old started taking off
Home / Newsletter We have good intentions, but do we have what it takes to functionally run a circular economy? How many of us reach the point where our well-functioning
Home / We can’t afford to shift what we procure to buy sustainable or circular products when we hear this, the real underlying question is: Can we afford not to? Most procurement teams get stuck
Home / Many product solutions are designed around an important assumption: that people will use products exactly as intended. But what does that actually mean in practice? It often means assuming that
Home / We want to be sustainable – right? Let’s move away from plastic We see this a lot in packaging decisions: teams assume that choosing a material perceived as sustainable automatically
A lot of us are fortunate to enjoy the day following Christmas as a holiday, and in Commonwealth countries we call it the “Boxing Day”. The history of boxing day
Given that we only require a certain amount of energy per day, why have our portion sizes continued to increase over time? Portion sizes have been progressively increasing over the
Image by Jeff Juit from Pixabay A message to buy less from a producer is quite rare and far from the norm. Usually, when we are browsing for a new product, we are
We often drift to purchasing something new and shiny, fresh off the shelves, when we think of buying something. Retail and advertising industry techniques are also made to influence us
Gift-giving has been an age-old practice and has evolved to fit different traditions and cultural norms over time. They were given on special occasions to display one’s affection or as
“You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll Be Happy,” A statement in an essay by Danish MP Ida Auken sparked countless debates about a dystopian future looming on the horizon. Yet we
A famous saying that outlines the impact of textile and clothing is, “The most sustainable garment is the one that is never made!” With textile and clothing manufacturing generally involving
We dread to have our favorite kettles, toasters, mixers, or irons broke. Not only is it hard to repair them, having to let go of something that we liked and
Dinner sets, tea sets, cutlery, plates, and dishes – You may have received them as a gift or purchased them at your fancy, yet one common thing is that they
