ESRs’ Blog
Furniture Refurbishment: what about social implications?
IKEA, the world’s biggest furniture retailer, recently announced a furniture buy-back and resell scheme offering customers vouchers to spend in store. The scheme...
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Lemon growers protect local products
Circular Economy as a protector of heritage and culture. A brief video about Cooperativa Solagri Sorrento, where Prof. Andrea Genovese is secondeed at the moment as...
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Thessaloniki report #1
Known as the Nymph of Thermaikos (Thermaic Gulf), Thessaloniki is developing as a multicultural city and West Balkan’s main hub of sea freight transport throughout...
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Global supply chains: A COVID-19 symptomatic patient
Akis Bimpizas, Management School, University of Sheffield, UK (m.bimpizas-pinis@sheffield.ac.uk) Prof. Andrea Genovese, Management School, University of Sheffield...
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INTA Seconded at UPN
During my visit at the University of Parthenope (Naples), I was involved in a project related to Argentina’s trade and how the natural resources involved can be...
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USFD@INTA – An international journey
Javier Gutierrez, who is completing a three-month secondment in Argentina, hosted by Dr Gloria Rotolo at INTA, writes about his experience: “I am grateful for...
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USFD in secondment to Agritalia
Last November, Karla Ileana Tun Gongora, PhD student at Sheffield University Management School completed one-month secondment to Agrit in the city of Naples, Italy...
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Let’s ReThink our attitude!
Text by Felipe Alexandre de Lima & Jayani Ishara Sudusinghe Aquarelle by Felipe Alexandre de Lima It’s worldwide recognized that the current “take-make-dispose”...
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Organic waste: Biobased circularity
Municipal solid waste and in particular organic waste are globally generated in large quantities from various sectors including different stages of the food supply...
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Why can’t we live circular?
For billions of years we have had life on our planet, but no species had such a catastrophic effect on life on the planet as humans now have. And that is for one...
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