Did you know that up to 80% of Black Friday purchases end up in landfills or incinerators, or are recycled poorly?

Plus, Black Friday deliveries are expected to produce around 429,000 metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions—the equivalent of 435 return flights from London to New York...

Instead of ordering things we don’t need and disposing of them after just a short while, some alternatives:

1️⃣Recycle old electricals—that includes anything with a plug, battery, or cable
2️⃣Buy durable products over disposable alternatives
3️⃣Buy products made from recycled materials
4️⃣Simply buy less, or not at all

There are better ways to shop this Black Friday so that we don’t contribute to waste, greenhouse gas emissions, landfills, and incineration.
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Looking to buy more sustainably?

Exciting news! ZONE3 has released a laptop sleeve made entirely from their end-of-life neoprene wetsuits.

It’s a spacious and robust sleeve that’s also an ingenious way of reducing waste.

We love this example of neoprene recycling in action! You can read more about it on the @zone3official website. https://zone3.com/products/recycled-laptop-sleeve
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World Hello Day!

Hello from all of us at Circular Flow! We`re still collecting your end of life neoprene for recycling into brand new items - all with zero waste, burning, or use of hazardous chemicals.

We`re also open to hearing from anyone who works in the industry and wants to connect.

So we`re always happy to chat - whether at an event or online. DM us or drop us an email at [email protected], and a member of the team will be in touch to say hello!
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As climate change and the waste crisis continue to impact our lives, educating the next generation is doubtlessly key.

There are so many ways of encouraging environmental awareness and sustainability with your kids - from gardening and composting (maybe even making a mini greenhouse or worm farm), to introducing them to recycling and water conservation.

It’s so important to introduce children to these topics from an early age, in order to help create positive change and ensure a better future for us all.
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We love hearing about other innovative ways to recycle and reuse! For instance:

1️⃣ Tennis Balls: A staggering 125 million tennis balls end up in American landfill each year. The US company Recycleballs aims to change that, collecting millions of balls and recycling them into new products. This includes grinding up balls for use as rubber crumb in the construction of tennis courts and horse arenas, as well as being made into balls for dogs.

2️⃣ Chewing Gum: Two French students are transforming discarded chewing gum into skateboard wheels. Discarded gum is mixed with a binder and natural dyes before being turned into a skateboard wheel using injection moulding.

3️⃣ Coffee Grounds: Belgian company PermaFungi says it harvests around 900 kilos of mushrooms a month from used coffee grounds that would otherwise have just been thrown away. The grounds are collected from local coffee shops and packed into bags with straw to create nutritious soil for mushroom spores. Once they’re harvested, the mushrooms are delivered to shops and restaurants.

As the urgent need for a circular economy increases in the face of ever-growing global landfill, we’ll likely see more creative ideas - putting to good use what would have otherwise gone to waste.

Tonight in the UK marks Bonfire Night: an evening of revelry with family, friends, fireworks, and, of course, bonfires, which are notoriously bad for the environment!

That’s not to say we shouldn’t enjoy the celebrations - but simply be aware of the impact that burning has on our environment. It’s something we know a lot about at Circular Flow, as we look into the effects of incinerating neoprene instead of recycling it.

The burning of neoprene produces toxic byproducts such as dioxins and furans (also released during the burning of bonfires), worsening air quality and damaging our health.

This is just one reason why we recycle and remake end of life neoprene - and with a process that includes no melting or burning.

This spooky season, it`s worth remembering that there are some things that really are scary…

We’re urgently aware of the risks not recycling responsibly poses to our planet in this time of climate crisis: ocean and land pollution, overflowing landfills, and damage to our ecosystems and our health.

We see with the wetsuits we receive for recycling how much individual contributions matter - and how we always do better as a team. It’s so important that we keep working together: from recycling and reusing what we no longer need. and buying less in the first place, to urging our politicians to keep putting the environment at the centre of their agenda, our actions always count.

So let’s join together and make the world a safer, and less spooky, place…