Circular Economy

September 16, 2026

M&S Too Good To Go Bakery Bags Reach 354 Stores With £3.80 Surprise Bag Deal

M&S has launched surplus bakery bags through the Too Good To Go app at more than 350 stores across the UK and Ireland, offering shoppers a guaranteed minimum of £10.20 worth of

Close-up of shredded, color-sorted plastic waste ready for recycling.

Australia·Environment·Sustainability·Waste

Recycling Plastics Australia Enters Administration; $20M Government Investment at Risk as 60 Jobs Lost

Australia is working to expand its domestic plastic recycling capacity. One of its significant soft plastics recycling businesses has now entered voluntary administration. Recycling Plastics Australia (RPA), based in Kilburn, South Australia, entered voluntary administration on August 31, 2026. The

September 2, 2026

Fairphone Gen 6+ US Launch: $649 Modular Phone Fights E-Waste

Environment·Sustainability

Dutch phone maker Fairphone is taking on planned obsolescence with its Gen 6+ arriving in the U.S. market, marking the first unmodified device launch

Fairphone Gen 6+ US Launch: $649 Modular Phone Fights E-Waste

Sustainability

Dutch phone maker Fairphone is taking on planned obsolescence with its Gen 6+ arriving in the U.S. market, marking the first unmodified device launch

Bank of Canada headquarters facade in Ottawa

Business

Canada’s inflation hits 3% ceiling as Middle East oil shocks push gas prices up 25.7%

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Canada’s inflation climbed to 3.0% in July, reaching the upper boundary of the Bank of Canada’s 1% to 3% target band, primarily driven by energy prices tied

Sunita Somvanshi

August 18, 2026

A compostable sneaker showcasing regenerative fashion design at a product awards event.

Culture·Design·Environment

Compostable Sneakers Win Award as 54 Countries Show Regenerative Fashion Is Ready for Markets

In May, a German company won an international design award for creating something that shouldn’t exist: a concrete-free foundation for buildings. GLAPOR UMB1 is made entirely from recycled glass, and it cuts

Rahul Somvanshi

August 17, 2026

Stack of blue and plastic bottles and containers at a recycling collection point

Business·Policy

EU Circular Economy Act 2026: Doubling Circularity to 24% by 2030 — 4.4 Million Jobs and a Just Transition

The European Union’s Circular Economy Act, due for adoption in 2026, targets something that sounds almost too ambitious to be real: doubling the bloc’s circularity rate from 12.2% to 24% by 2030.

Rahul Somvanshi

August 16, 2026

Pile of discarded clothes and textiles representing fashion waste and unsold apparel amid new EU rules restricting the destruction of unsold garments.

Europe·Policy·Waste

EU Bans Burning Unsold Clothes From July 2026 — 80% of Discarded Fashion Still Hits Landfills or Incinerators

EU Bans Brands From Burning Unsold Clothes: ESPR July 2026 Explained | KarmActive Circular Economy · Policy · Fashion EU Bans Brands From Burning Unsold Clothes. What Happens Next? Effective July 19,

Sunita Somvanshi

June 4, 2026

Clothing tag with a QR code and product details attached to a white cotton T-shirt, illustrating a Digital Product Passport concept for product transparency and traceability.

Europe·Policy

EU’s Digital Product Passport Registry Goes Live July 19 — 53% of Green Claims Won’t Pass the New QR Code Test

Circular Economy May 29, 2026 · 6 min read Your Next T-Shirt Will Have a Passport Starting July 2026, the EU switches on a system where every product you buy carries a

Karmactive Staff

June 1, 2026

Water

Global Water Crisis Threatens 50% of Food Production, Economy Faces 8% GDP Loss by 2050

The clock is ticking on worldwide water reserves, and the food on our plates hangs in the balance. According to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water’s October 2024 report, over

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Rahul Somvanshi

August 10, 2025

A hooded crow picks up a stick from the ground and drops it into a bin to receive a peanut reward.

Nature·Waste

Wild Crows Pick Up Cigarette Butts for Food in Stockholm: Bird Bins Tackle 48% of Sweden’s Litter

At first glance, the sight might seem strange – wild crows in a Swedish city deliberately picking up cigarette butts from the street and dropping them into a special machine. But this

Rahul Somvanshi

August 9, 2025

Design·Recycle·Science·Water

Tire Waste Transformed into Water Solution: $5 Solar Still Creates 3.67 Liters for Less Than 1 Cent

The global water crisis affects billions while discarded tires pile up in landfills worldwide. A team at Dalhousie University has connected these seemingly unrelated problems with an innovative solution: a floating solar

Rahul Somvanshi

May 20, 2025

Global economy depending on the consumption of raw materials is trapping the whole world into challenging efforts to be taken in accordance with CGR 2024. Photo Source: Royce Bair (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

News·Space

Global Circularity Falls to 7.2% as Material Use Nears 20th Century Total in Six Years

The global economy’s voracious appetite for raw materials has reached unprecedented levels, consuming nearly as much in the past six years as during the entire 20th century. Between 2016 and 2021, we

Rahul Somvanshi

April 19, 2025

Representative Image A row of paintbrushes, Photo Source: Picryl

World

World Creativity Day 2025: Creative Industries Drive 3.1% of GDP and 6.2% of Employment

Most of our day-to-day work is repetitive. No creativity is involved in it. The concept of creativity too is open to different interpretations. An artist’s view of creativity will differ from the

Govind Tekale

April 16, 2025

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