{"id":1068,"date":"2026-06-02T07:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:58:36","slug":"design-skills-for-embedding-circularity-ciwm-urge-collective-prepare-for-design-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/design-skills-for-embedding-circularity-ciwm-urge-collective-prepare-for-design-sprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Skills for Embedding Circularity: CIWM & URGE Collective prepare for design sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CIWM (Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) Design Council, WRAP, and URGE Collective, have partnered with waste management company Biffa and retail business Decathlon for the next phases of the Design Skills for embedding circularity programme.<\/h4>\n

The Design Skills for Embedding Circularity pilot programme is now gearing up for a design sprint that will focus on \u2018designing out waste\u2019.<\/p>\n

An intensive 6-week deep dive, exploring challenges and barriers to circularity through both business, design and waste and resources lenses. The Sprint is part of an innovative pilot project funded by CIWM that links professional designers with resources and waste operators to embed designing out waste principles into everyday design practice.<\/p>\n

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The design cohort have visited industrial waste facilities guided by Sophie Thomas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The design cohort have spent the last four months visiting industrial waste facilities guided by circular economy expert Sophie Thomas.<\/p>\n

They have observed technical processes and met waste resource experts across the country, including at Sherbourne Recycling\u2019s Super MRF, SWEEEP\u2019s waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling plant, DS Smith\u2019s largest UK recycled papermill, Enfinium\u2019s energy from waste plant, Biffa\u2019s Edmonton MRF, Enovert\u2019s landfill sites in Gloucestershire, and SUEZ\u2019s Renew Hub in Manchester.<\/p>\n

They have also visited Decathlon\u2019s London HQ, and Allermuir\u2019s furniture remanufacturing hub in Manchester to explore how circular business models are being realised.<\/p>\n

Each site visit and expert session revealed myth busting facts concerning how products are designed and manufactured for recovery, reuse or recycling and the barriers to circularity.<\/p>\n

These insights range from: the amount of lost material at the MRF stage from size or material complexity, coloured PET ruling out recycling, problematic waste arriving at MRFs including vapes, textiles, nappies, cookware, and the extremely limited intervention points for repair or reuse between user and industrial waste sorting.<\/p>\n

Dan Cooke, Director of Policy, Communications and External Affairs at CIWM, said that policy is moving in the right direction and will \u2018increasingly nudge\u2019 businesses towards circular models.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, a vital element for progress is cross-sector collaboration and expertise \u2013 designers who understand what happens to a product at end of life, and resources and waste professionals who can influence design thinking upstream,\u201d Cooke continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese connections are important in helping to move the world beyond waste. In just a few weeks, this cohort is moving from waste facility floor to design studio, and knowledge is now being applied to live challenges from Biffa and Decathlon.\u201d<\/p>\n

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