{"id":4006,"date":"2024-10-08T13:14:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtffoxnews.com\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2024-10-09T20:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:04:54","slug":"wrap-on-the-art-of-circular-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mtffoxnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/wrap-on-the-art-of-circular-living\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAP on the art of circular living"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you\u2019re like me, your day kicks off with a strong cup of coffee to charge the batteries. My coffee grinds go into the food waste caddy to be composted, and I\u2019m lucky that my milk comes from a local bottle refill scheme.<\/p>\n
Then I choose what to wear from my preloved charity shop finds, fill up my water bottle and hop on my second-hand racing bike that came off Gumtree. All very routine, all very normal. Yet before even reaching my desk I\u2019ve been living my best circular life.<\/p>\n
At WRAP, our ambition is for circular living to become the norm in every boardroom and every home.<\/p>\n
Currently, the food, textiles and products we use daily come from unsustainable take-make-chuck systems that are wreaking the environment. Together consumer goods clock up nearly half of all global greenhouse gas emissions and are also driving social inequality.<\/p>\n
CIWM members don\u2019t need to be reminded of the mountains of waste made using tonnes of raw materials torn from the earth, polluting our water systems and destroying biodiversity.<\/p>\n
\nAt WRAP, our ambition is for circular living to become the norm in every boardroom and every home.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
We need to transform these broken systems and circular living is our way out of this mess. That is why WRAP has recently had a make-over to put the spotlight on circular living.<\/p>\n
Circular living builds on the foundations laid out for the circular economy. It envisions a world where we move forward to a culture of design-make-reuse-repeat, drastically reducing the use of materials and water, and emissions.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s about examining sustainability challenges through the lens of people\u2019s day-to-day lives and transforming the systems around them; creating higher living standards through better resource use and designing a way of life where sustainability isn\u2019t an afterthought, but a habit made as easy as possible. It\u2019s about more from less.<\/p>\n
This ultimately means separating value creation from the unsustainable use of virgin raw resources. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Business interest in circular living is building \u2013 and public interest too \u2013 from small community groups to SMEs, right up into the boardrooms of the bigger players here and in other countries. It\u2019s interest we must harness, nurture and spread.<\/p>\n
How are businesses embracing the circular economy?<\/h2>\n
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Take St Ives Community Orchard, which grows a variety of fruit trees, and vegetables and manages woodland.<\/p>\n
The scheme collects food waste from local businesses and has community compost bins that everyone can feed with their food waste, turning leftovers into nutrient-rich organic matter fed back onto the land.<\/p>\n