The other 40 percent, the clothes no one wants, are recycled as wipe cloths or shredded for insulation or mattress stuffing. Some are incinerated. The recycled fraction increasingly includes cheaply made, worn-out items. Boer loses money on almost al...
At one point Boer eyeballed my gray sport coat, which I felt quite confident of; he couldn't see the ink stains on the inside pocket. We cannot sell your jacket anywhere, he volunteered cheerfully. No one in the world wants to buy it. Boer said he wo...
Jorik Boer makes a living rescuing some of them as head of the Boer Group, a Dutch family business that began a century ago on the streets of Rotterdam with his great-grandfather collecting rags, metal, and paper in a cart. Today, from his base in Do...
Clothes 服装 The emblem of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a set of nested circles, was on Dame Ellen's teal hoodie when we met in her headquarters, an old sailmaker's loft on the Isle of Wight. In 2005, at age 28, MacArthur finished sailing around...
Aurubis sells the aluminum and plastic it recovers to those industries; copper and other nonferrous metals go into its own ovens. In the tidy yard, the dust is swept daily and fed to the smelter. We have no waste here, Laser said. 奥如比斯厂将提...
The Romans, like the Phoenicians before them, also mined copper from the rich deposits at Ro Tinto in Spain. But they recycled too: They melted down bronze statues from conquered peoples to make weapons. Copper has always been a prime target for recy...
I didn't remember much about that German philosopher. 我对那位德国哲学家印象模糊。 Leibniz said, 'If it is possible, therefore it exists.' 莱布尼茨说，'有可能的必将存在。' And I'm saying, 'If we can make it exist, it's th...
For that same half century, environmentalists have been warning of limits to growth. The new circular economy movement is different. It's a collection of strategies -- some old, such as reducing, reusing, and recycling, and some new, such as renting...
The circularity gap, as de Wit and his colleagues dubbed it when they presented their report at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2018, is relatively new in human history. It dates to our industrial use of fossil fuels in the 18th century. Until t...
All good so far; amazing even, if you're the type to be amazed by human effort and ingenuity. It's what happens next, after our needs are met, that's the problem -- the mother of all environmental problems, in fact. De Wit pointed to the gray fog on...
