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How circularity transformation is impacting supply chain innovation

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Lean: WEAR and no TEAR How circularity transformation is impacting supply chain innovation What goes up must come down To arrest the growing effect on nature and curtail the rise in temperatures, countries across the globe are devising measures to rejuvenate Mother Earth. The aim is to reverse the temperature by 1.5-2.0 deg Celsius.

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Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil

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Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil. They've innovated on raw materials, resulting in Aquafil's Econyl yarn that it recycles from ghost fishing nets, carpet fluff and other would-be waste. In 1996, the company began working with suppliers toward using nylon produced from waste.

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VF Corp leans in to the circular economy and regenerative ag

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VF Corp leans in to the circular economy and regenerative ag. For example, back in May, Timberland announced that it planned to introduce a collection of boots using regenerative leather sourced from Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed ranches, which have 600,000 acres that have been transitioned to regenerative practices.

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Regenerative Agriculture: The Case For Palm Oil

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DESCRIPTION: What is Regenerative Agriculture. So, what is regenerative agriculture? While there’s no universally accepted definition of regenerative agriculture, it is an amalgamation of agricultural methods that aim to sustain soil health and not deplete resources such as water while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Waste Is Only Waste if We Waste It: Demystifying Anaerobic Digestion

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The benefits of anaerobic digestion for recycling various kinds of organic farm waste are far-reaching — including waste management, renewable energy generation, GHG reduction, economic advantages and agricultural sustainability. As with food production and food waste, you can’t have dairy cows without manure.

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The Plan for Possible: How Cisco is Connecting a Regenerative Future

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That’s why we’re focusing on not just a sustainable future, but a regenerative one. It is possible to design out waste , so we are re-building products from used ones. It is in our shared interest to help humans and nature navigate a changing climate by investing in regenerative technologies, workforces, and nature itself.

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Mars, Cargill put nature regeneration goals alongside avoiding climate catastrophe

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You can’t stick an instrument in a bucket of palm oil and measure whether there was deforestation or forced labor in its supply chain. During the session, with panelists from large agricultural companies Cargill and Mars, regenerative agriculture took center stage. . So they’re not product attributes, they’re process attributes.