Romania’s Bottle Battle

In this episode, you’ll dive into the challenges of one of theworld’s biggest integrated bottle recycling scheme. We’ll explore how Romania, a country with one of the lowest recycling rates in Europe, is turning things around with a unique partnership involving RetuRO, drinks producers and brewers.…

Circular Jeans – Stitched for the future

In this episode, we’re tackling a huge challenge: making the textile industry, especially jeans, more eco-friendly. We’ll explain the challenge of recycling blended material and how SANKO, one of the world's biggest jeans manufacturers, is leading the way with a new circular approach to making clot…

Powering the city that never sleeps

The story of how one in every five lightbulbs in New York City will be powered by renewable hydro energy from Canada. We hear how one of North America’s biggest clean energy projects was created in tune with the environment and people’s homes. Champlain Hudson Power Express moves energy hundreds of…

Clean coffee

Figures suggest every cup of coffee that’s produced, on average, destroys around 5 cm squared of rainforest. From next year, coffee will not be allowed to enter the EU market unless it’s deforestation free. So you have to prove it. Coffee changes hands so many times that producers and suppliers hav…

Building the office of the future

Find out how one of the world's best known office area was rebuilt. Manhattan West was poorly linked with lots of small undesirable buildings. Post COVID companies need to sell their offices to employees and make them a destination rather than an existence. This is about how you sustainably transfo…