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Ancient forests get new website to aid materials and sustainability choices of designers

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 16, 2017

New website can guide designers to the best and most sustainable wood type for a product A new interactive forest…

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P&G creates first recyclable shampoo bottle from beach plastic

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 20, 2017

The project will use 2,600 tons of recycled plastic every year Head & Shoulders will produce the world’s first recyclable…

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Opportunities for circular economy in Innovate UK’s Materials and Manufacturing competition

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 23, 2016

Innovate UK’s latest funding competition includes potential awards for those with designs for product end-of-life, materials reuse, and remanufacture Innovate…

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Autodesk Cleantech partner program reaches China

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 27, 2015

Qbotix is one of the companies already benefitting from the Autodesk Cleantech Partner Program Following launches in Japan, Singapore, Australia…

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A UK engineering team turning waste into plastic wins gold at an international competition

Posted by Tanya Weaver - November 17, 2014

The team of students from Imperial College London whose project uses harmless engineered bacteria to turn landfill waste into bio-plastic…

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Autodesk Sustainability Workshop: Making the seemingly complex accessible

Posted by Al Dean - September 13, 2011

Those that have been reading DEVELOP3D over the last few months will know that we’ve recently started introducing more content…

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Autodesk Sustainability Workshop: Making complex accessible

Posted by Al Dean - September 13, 2011

We chat to Dawn Danby, Autodesk’s Sustainability Workshop head honcho about the site’s exciting new updates For those that have…

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Putting sustainable design at the heart of the development process with a new LCA Calculator

Posted by Tanya Weaver - April 5, 2011

I’ve just had wind of the launch of a new Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) calculator from design agency Industrial Design Consultancy…

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A look inside the new book ‘Product Design in the Sustainable Era’

Posted by Tanya Weaver - June 18, 2010

I was so pleased when the postman knocked on my front door this morning to hand me a package from…

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Autodesk launched Project Krypton: Is the search for simplification a good thing?

Posted by Al Dean - June 9, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, Autodesk launched its latest labs experiment for the Inventor community, entitled Project Krypton with the…

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