As businesses face increasing scrutiny over their environmental claims, a growing disconnect between corporate sustainability rhetoric and real-world action, has been revealed in a new white paper from Crown Workspace. Based on a global survey of 1,000 office workers and ...
Read More »Demand for green buildings has slowed according to RICS Sustainability Report
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has released its 2025 Sustainability Report, revealing a slowdown in global demand growth for sustainable buildings and a concerning lack of progress in carbon measurement across construction projects. The report, based on insight ...
Read More »Design and waste management sectors collaborate to develop critical skills required to create a more circular economy
An innovative pilot programme aimed at exploring new methods for practical skills exchange and knowledge sharing between the design sector and waste and recycling industries has been launched by the CIWM (The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) and the Circular ...
Read More »‘Let’s not waste the next four years’, says CIWM
In the summer of 2025, CIWM’s Policy & Innovation Forum commissioned and endorsed an independent review of the UK’s policy landscape from a resources and waste sector perspective, now summarised in the CIWM ‘Let’s Not Waste the Next Four Years’ ...
Read More »Reconomy partners with digital platform business to help producers comply with Digital Product Passports
Producers selling in the EU will soon be required to adopt Digital Product Passports to provide detailed information about the environmental impact of products throughout their lifecycle. International circular economy specialist, Reconomy, has partnered with Buyerdock, a leading digital platform ...
Read More »UK circular economy furniture business saves over 111,000 kg CO2e in first half of 2025
UK circular economy specialist in the workplace furniture sector, Recycle Scotland, has announced that projects completed in the first six months of 2025 have saved over 111,000 kg CO2e, demonstrating the substantial environmental benefits of keeping workplace furniture in the circular ...
Read More »BM Caterers’ reusables collaboration wins sustainability award
BM Caterers and law firm Norton Rose Fulbright have won an award for their collaboration on phasing out single-use food packaging and coffee cups at the firm’s on-site restaurant. Norton Rose Fulbright’s London office was recognised at the Team London ...
Read More »Crown Worldwide Group marks major progress across global ESG initiatives
Crown Worldwide Group has reported significant progress across its environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments in its 2025 Sustainability Report, including increased focus on circular economy solutions primarily through its Workspace brand. The report, covering 2024, reflects Crown’s continued investment ...
Read More »London’s evolving Skyline misses opportunity to support a more circular economy
The record-breaking demolition of St Helen’s tower, the tallest building to be demolished in the capital, highlights London’s missed opportunity to reuse 49,000 tonnes of demolished concrete to permanently store and remove hundreds of tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere. ...
Read More »CIWM launches Presidential Report 2025 ‘Lost Opportunities? Winning Back Materials to Drive the UK’s Circular Economy’
Ahead of his inauguration as CIWM President yesterday, Dr. David Greenfield launched the CIWM Presidential Report 2025, entitled ‘Lost Opportunities? Winning Back Materials to Drive the UK’s Circular Economy‘, which issues a call to action to capture and derive value ...
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