Building the Circular Economy
Welcome to my blog, 'Building the Circular Economy'. Its all about designing stuff to 'disassemble' rather than disposal and preventing uncessary use of energy. Some people call it 'cradle to cradle' manufacturing, or C2C, the aim is to encourage reuse of materials or using biodegradable ingrediants rather than landfill.
Other subjects include encouraging people to lease their stuff rather than buying it - this way materials are returned to the manufacturers who will have an incentive to design their products with an emphasis on sustainability. Other themes include the 'reverse supply chain' preventing unnesessary movements of goods and people around the world.
I hope you will enjoy the articles, which will look at all aspects of new innovation, Smart Cities, the expansion of Electric Vehicle use around the world, future energy storage plans to help wind and solar energy.
I hope that you find the articles interesting. Please feel free to add your comments, links to other articles and observations - the more contraversial the better! You can follow me on Linkedin [ and look at our group #GreenLeeds] and Twitter @tbarbarnett .
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Recycling Batteries, a growing problem.
Posted on April 23rd, 2012 by Jeremy Barnett
In 2010 regulations came into force requiring the UK to recycle 45% of batteries placed on the market by 2016. This equates to 500 million batteries. This follows the 2006 EU Battery Directive that set a...
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Read MorePrototype battery explodes at GM test centre
Posted on April 12th, 2012 by Jeremy Barnett
EcoGeek.Org has reported that a prototype battery exploded during extreme testing at the GM centre in Warren Michigen.
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Read MoreRecent Shale Oil and Gas Finds around the World.
Posted on April 3rd, 2012 by Jeremy Barnett
Recent massive discoveries of shale oil and shale gas have been made around the world. Various methods of extraction are being considered, but the most popular is 'Fracking' the process of initiating and...
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Read MoreSolar PV legal and regulatory issues
Posted on April 2nd, 2012 by Jeremy Barnett
In April 2010 a scheme, known as the FIT Scheme, was introduced to enable electricity supply companies to make payments to small- scale producers of low – carbon electricity. The purpose of the scheme...
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