Sustainable resort operations, including through energy and water efficient devices, composting, organic gardening, plastics use elimination and local and sustainable sourcing.
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Read More about Using mushrooms to produce sustainable materials from agricultural wasteTimleless design, craftsmanship and lifetime refurbishment and reupholstery service, sourcing of sustainably-certified timber, minimization and reuse of wood and fabric offcuts (including for small de...
Read More about Timeless design and craftsmanship for circular furnitureProduction of lower carbon blended cements with inclusion of flyash and other cementious materials, use of municipal, organic and other wastes as alternative fuels and water and heat energy recovery.
Read More about Alternative materials and fuels for low carbon cementResource efficient factory-based production of pre-fabricated and prefitted building modules, with inclusion of secondary materials as fillers, that significantly reduces total material use for the bu...
Read More about Modular: future for sustainable constructionApplication of coconut fibres from coconut processing waste as biofilter for decentralized waste water treatment of single and mutiple dwellings and floating villages.
Read More about Coconut fibre for decentralised wastewater treatmentThis business case study was prepared within the framework of the Technical Advisory project: Mobilising Business Action for Circular Economy in the ASEAN countries under the EU SWITCH-Asia Policy Sup...
Read More about Biochar innovation in agricultureTransforming naturally-shed sheaths of the areca nut palm, a previously-discarded agricultural waste, into biodegradable packaging products to replace plastic packaging in the food sector.
Read More about Areca Nut Palm Sheaths as a Biodegradable Plastic Packaging AlternativeDeveloper and supplier of low cost, small scale appropriate mechanical recycling equipment for plastics and developer of network of grassroots plastic waste collection and recycling intiatives that pr...
Read More about Appropriate technology for small scale plastics recyclingArtisan production of alternative silk- and leather-like materials from lotus stem waste.
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