We are super glad to support #Take Back Friday campaign launched by the Eco-fashion brand —Teemill!
With more than 10,000 brands using it, Teemill is the world’s biggest dedicated circular economy platform. It enables users – from global organisations such as WWF, Greenpeace, and BBC Earth, to brands, influencers, artists, and content creators – to create e-commerce stores connected to a circular supply chain, so they can create, sell or remake sustainable and circular clothing products. All Teemill products are designed to be remade with a QR code on the label to send them back.
This Black Friday, Teemill is playing people to send back their old stuff. Using innovative Remill process, Teemill turns returned products into new high-quality products, all of which can go through the same process over and over again. To date, Teemill has diverted 30,000kg of organic cotton from landfill, avoiding 1 million kg of CO2e emissions, and saving 586 million litres of water.
The campaign has the support of organisations including WWF, BBC Earth, and Surfers Against Sewage.
For more details and to send back items visit remillfibre.com
#lsesu #lsesucirculareconomy #teemill #teemillstore #takebackfriday
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Sustainable construction is moving from ambition to delivery, with whole life carbon, embodied carbon and life cycle cost now shaping decisions on heat, materials and compliance.
New analysis suggests waste-heat networks and large air-source heat pumps could serve 70,000 new social and affordable homes at lower cost than electric panel heating, reducing energy bills by £142m. Record UK Boiler Upgrade Scheme heat-pump vouchers point to rising market confidence in low carbon building systems and energy-efficient buildings, strengthening the case for sustainable building design, low carbon design and net zero carbon buildings as practical infrastructure rather than policy rhetoric.
Circular economy in construction is gaining operational detail through new industry guidance on door reuse, supporting sustainable material specification, resource efficiency in construction and end-of-life reuse in construction.
The shift matters because embodied carbon in materials cannot be cut through cleaner cement alone. Contractors, insurers and regulators will need workable evidence routes for reused components, environmental product declarations (EPDs), lifecycle assessment and whole life carbon assessment if circular construction strategies are to compete with disposal. The priority is a reliable market for low embodied carbon materials, green building products, renewable building materials and low carbon construction materials that can reduce the carbon footprint of construction without creating unmanageable compliance burdens.
The central constraint is execution. Cleaner heat, eco-design for buildings, eco-friendly construction and safer delivery are meeting skills shortages, reskilling demands and post-Building Safety Act compliance pressures. Environmental sustainability in construction now depends on whether procurement teams, installers and building-control bodies can translate sustainable design into dependable, inspectable and affordable systems.
Net zero whole life carbon, BREEAM and BREEAM v7 ambitions will be won through building lifecycle performance, life cycle thinking in construction and carbon footprint reduction across design, specification, construction, operation and reuse. The strongest performers will be those able to make decarbonising the built environment a repeatable construction process, not a project-by-project aspiration.
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