To be or not to be biodegradable?

Hello everyone,

Despite the turbulent times in France, I am taking the time to write to you from the future. Not that 2033 is any less eventful than 2023, but you are unknowingly living a pivotal moment towards another society...

The piles of garbage due to the sustained strikes of the garbage collectors in many large French cities, the inconveniences that followed, and then the legal obligation for each household to compost its bio-waste from 1 January 2024 marked a real advance in the recovery of the latter.

Today, all bio-waste is recycled in each neighbourhood, reused in urban and peri-urban agriculture and has even helped to accelerate the greening of cities!

Gone are the days when the so-called biodegradable plastic bags would destroy the efforts of all the inhabitants of a building, the law has finally banned them and citizens have managed to reuse the bags they already had.

Anyway, continue to change things on your own scale, the change in society will become more and more concrete.

Enjoy your reading,

Joséphine since 2033

👋 Welcome Fabrice (aka Fabrice Poirpom)!
It's already been a few days since Fabrice Poirpoim joined the Circulab team. His missions have been defined mainly around the communication and the new processes of Circulab and the Circulab academy. He will help us to offer you a better quality and adapted content!

💧World Water Day bringing together the Parisian night clubs ecosystem
To raise awareness, reuse and reduce single-use plastic Circulab animated a workshop for the night clubs ecosystem in Paris on the World Water Day. The objective is to start engaging this ecosystem in the circular economy transition with concrete actions and collaborations. The Zero Plastic Club movement was started by Bye Bye Plastic, the club La Machine du Moulin and other french entities a few weeks ago. 20 French clubs have already stopped selling single-use water bottles.

💄 Training for Lancôme's design teams
To improve the design of their points of sale, Lancôme's design teams were trained for 2 days in circular design. After being introduced to systems thinking, participants took up current issues and addressed them with the Circular Canvas. The 10 participants now want to go much further.

What are the community members up to?

🌊 New edition of the Waves of Change Forum, by Nicolas Occhiminuti
The Forum's third edition will take place on June 5-7 in Biarritz. 200 participants representing startups, investors, corporations, NGOs, universities and public sector involved in the environmental transition will gather for 3 days of collective intelligence workshops, business dating and productive free time including surf networking, sites and facilities visits. Circulab is proud to support the event. Meet us in Biarritz.

👩‍🎓 "Organizing for Circular Economy" at l'IESEG Lille, by Philippe Drouillon
Philippe taught the course "Organizing for Circular Economy" that will be followed by the module "Ecosystem Dynamics in Anthropocene" focusing on systems thinking, life-centred design, scenario planning and territorial regeneration.

🚲 Innovative, inclusive and low carbon mobility solutions, by Patrick Noel and Fakroudine Akbaraly
After two years of incubation of the project, Patrick and Fakroudine launched Blue Bike Innovation, aiming to raise awareness, promote and co-develop innovative, inclusive, circular and low carbon mobility ecosystems to transform the transport sector and lower its environmental impact.

🤝 International week at EPHEC, by Charlotte Mikolajczak, Caroline Lovens, Adrien Vercaempst and Hugues Dethienne
EPHEC, business university college in Brussels, hosted an international week about the circular economy. The event welcomed students from many institutions across the world and included several pedagogical tools, including the Circular Economy Collage, Circulab toolbox as well as a concrete case study with the company Lucien-Recycle.