The Foundation’s new study on scaling returnable packaging shows what collaboration can achieve in tackling plastic pollution. By harmonising packaging and design standards, we can make the economics work, and unlock huge environmental benefits.

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Five years in, the Global Commitment has shown it is possible to make meaningful progress in tackling plastic waste and pollution. But we have a long way to go. We need an ambitious combination of policy action and voluntary action to move further, faster.

Our collaboration with @cameramoda on their 2023 #SFAwards places #circulardesign at the top of the luxury fashion agenda. We're excited to celebrate those applying #circulareconomy principles & driving an industry that's regenerative by design. Congratulations to the finalists.

If we can redesign our clothes, we can redesign our system – from linear to circular. We started with jeans. Four years later, The Jeans Redesign's Insights report 2021-2023 shows that other garments are following. Now we must move from product redesign to system redesign.

A #circulareconomy is driven by design. By bringing circularity into our designs, we can begin to build a better future. Our Adaptive Strategy for Circular Design offers tangible actions that help organisations create the conditions for designers to put theory into practice.

The circular economy is gaining momentum. Each of the innovators in our Circular Startup Index is on a journey led by circular innovation. Together they represent a global picture of possibility.

The season is upon us, and it's going to be a very special year - with your support we want to make this our biggest and best yet. 🥳

To celebrate our 20th birthday, Dame Ellen MacArthur invites you to join our #200for20 challenge to help inspire even more brighter futures. ☀️

.Ellen MacArthur Foundation sees reuse as one of the priority measures in an ambitious, legally-binding #UN treaty to end plastic pollution. Individual countries and businesses cannot do it alone - they need global legislation to help level the playing field and overcome systemic barriers.

We know the problems: the current food system is a driver of biodiversity loss and a significant contributor to climate change. The Big Food Redesign Challenge gives businesses the opportunity to unlock solutions and develop food products that are designed to help nature thrive.

A legally-binding #UNTreaty - based on circular economy measures around reduction & reuse - presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to end plastic pollution globally. We cannot recycle our way of this. INC-2 marks a major stepping stone in this process.

Our Food Redesign Challenge is a huge opportunity for businesses to design nature-positive products that not only restore nature, but regenerate it. By creating a #circulareconomy for food, we can eliminate waste, and return key nutrients to the beginning of their natural cycles.

We’re very excited to be launching our Ambitions BMA House tonight. We can’t wait to share our plans for the next three years, it’s very special to be launching our new Ambitions in the Trust’s 20th anniversary. 💙

What a night! Thank you to everyone that came along to hear our new Ambitions, we can’t wait to share more with you all soon. 💙 #BrighterFutures #BiggerImpact

‘You know where your materials are within the world, so they have much less chance of becoming waste.’ Ellen has spoken at #wef23 World Economic Forum today on battery passports. Mandatory from 2026, these will track battery components, origins and life cycles. pulse.ly/q47xpg9wrc 1/2

The #GlobalCommitment 2022 progress report, published today with UN Environment Programme, shows that while strong progress has been made in some areas, key 2025 targets are expected to be missed.
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“We must work together, if we are to create new forms of economic value and better growth that can work in the long run and benefit society and the natural world,” said Ellen MacArthur on receiving the Fundación Princesa de Asturias Award for International Cooperation. Read more 👇bit.ly/3fgC63S

To accelerate the transition to #circulareconomy worldwide, we need collaboration with a shared vision.

The Foundation's Partnership with Camera Nazionale Della Moda Italiana (CNMI) aims to recognise and celebrate leading examples of #CircularDesign in fashion.
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Excited to announce, with WWF, 85+ businesses across the plastics value chain, financial institutions & NGOs, plans for a Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty. #NoTimeToWaste #Biz4PlasticsTreaty
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“This is about changing the system.” Listen to Ellen MacArthur in conversation with Solvay CEO Dr. Ilham Kadri on the AND is the Future podcast, where she discusses the #circulareconomy and #climatechange , #circularfashion , and transforming the system: bit.ly/3nrxCI9

It is a great honour to be bestowed with the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. I am truly humbled to join the list of distinguished previous Laureates and see the work of Ellen MacArthur Foundation recognised by the award.