SOLUTIONS – A Collection Of Open Source Circularity Solutions

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A collection of open and actionable SOLUTIONS & HOWTOs for Circularity.

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CONTENT

• Hardware
• Learn, Play, Make + Celebrate
• Materials
• Places & Spaces
• Repair, Re-Use, Recycle
• Industrial Production
• Textiles & Fashion
• Bio-based, Biosphere & Food
• Business Development

Hardware

SOLUTION - Circular Tape - by Jay Cousins

@jaycousins invented a circular tape. I ions bees wax into cotton cloth and here you go! Very good and useful for workshops with kids for example. here is a video he made about it:

SOLUTION – Build Modular Circular Solutions With A Unified Grid

Update: This topic was granted ‚Solution’. It shares an actionable idea for circular design along with links to external resources that allow rebuild already existing hardware solutions. [image] INTRO A simple way to create circular design is to base it on a unified (open standard) grid. With this all parts can easier be reused and recombined - like with Lego. There are basically 3 open source projects that do this. All come with extended documentation and are ready to be used, copied and …

SOLUTION - Build machines to recycle plastic locally with Precious Plastic

Precious Plastics is a project that offers the plans to build 4 machines that will allow you to recycle plastics locally. The machines are open source. The project is very famous and very well made. Got to their website there you can find the plans for the machines, a forum to ask questions and find answers. You can also check youtube for more tutorials. Many people across the globe have started to build and use the machines locally. Join them! [image] An example for a tutorial video: a…

SOLUTION – 'Pre-Use' – Find And Implement Existing Circular Modularity In Your Environement

Pre-Use Pre-Use means to use objects for something different than what they are intended for but leave them completely intact so that the initial use is still possible! Pre-Use points to existing cases of circular modularity in our already built world! In this topic we want to grow an open collection of Pre-Use examples and we invite you to contribute to it or play with it. Quick Examples more below [image] A flower pot serves as an outside ashtray, a jar as a vase, a deposit bottle as a s…

SOLUTION - Bottle Lab Berlin - 3D Printed Connectors To Use Deposit Bottles For Indoor Infrastructure

This topic is granted ‚Solution‘. It was initially shared under the name: ‚ASSEMBLY – BottleLab Berlin: Mehrwert für Mehrwerg‘ and as part of OSCEdays Berlin 2017. The solution is a 3d printed set of connectors (printed with recycled plastic from old yoghurt-cups) that allow it to transform standard bottles into all kinds of objects for interior design – for example chairs, tables, walls, bars and more! [image] scroll down to first comment for more pictures You can fill the bottles with …

Natural Factory – Nature As Our Factory

NaturalFactory.org collects inspiring examples of ways designers/makers can let nature be our factory to create sustainable solutions, focussing on non-food and non-medical products, such as packaging grown from mushroom mycelium and boutique furniture shaped in a carbon-negative ‘orchard’. The page is available in 5 languages: [image] ##Visit the page and study lots of interesting solutions. Screenshots from the page taken in December 2017 [image] – [image] – [image] MORE ON T…

SOLUTION – Retrofit, Repair, Hack and Build Resilient Open Source FARMING Tools With 'Farm Hack'

[image] Farm Hack is a worldwide community of farmers that build and modify their own tools. “We share our hacks online and at meet ups because we become better farmers when we work together.” On their website you can find good resources and tutorials as well as a forum where you can ask questions. ####Images of solutions shared on their page: [image] [image] [image] More & What Is This? #Circularity? How is this circular? The design principles are not in every case circ…

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Learn, Play, Make + Celebrate

SOLUTION - Have A Circular Wedding (Or Celebration)

#Circular Wedding [image] This is a slightly modified and less colourful version of the guide from http://www.socialcirculareconomy.com/circular-wedding.html #Introduction One of the most extravagant things that some people end up doing is having a wedding. With that in mind, when we decided to get married, we wanted to be as circular as we possible and where we could, link up with community organisations that help society. Not only did we enjoy and learn from the process of putting tog…

'MAKE IT CIRCULAR’ – An Open Poster On Circular Making

‘Make It Circular’ An Open Poster on Circular Making available in *9* languages for download, print, remix & sell. [image] Download to PRINT, REMIX, REDESIGN or TRANSLATE. Hang it up in your School, Maker-Space, FabLab or Company. Feedback welcome below. Downloads English [image] Editable .DOC Poster Make It Circular Lars2i Design 1.6 EN.doc (147 KB) Printable .PDF Poster Make It Circular Lars2i Design 1.6 EN.pdf (46.5 KB) – …

[CHALLENGE] Open source board game about the circular economy

[image] Summary OSCEdays Chennai will focus on developing a board game that children (and adults) can use to learn about the circular economy. The emphasis will be on making gameplay interesting and educational, using elements familiar to players from their local environments. While the event will deal with challenges unique to India, we hope to end up with an adaptable game that can be customized to incorporate local challenges and opportunities anywhere in the world. Background We are gr…

Materials

SOLUTION – The Secret Of Bioplastics - book with open source recipes on bioplastics

Hi, I just sit in a presentation by Anastasia Pistofidou and she is talking about her book “The Secret Of Bioplastics” and how it is open source and shares her recipes. Here is the book: She was also talking about other projects where they share recipes but I did not catch the urls because I was writing this post e-stalk her.

SOLUTION - Open Database Of Sustainable & Open Materials - with Materia Brasil

####Sustainable Materials with Materia Brasil Today I recorded a screencast with Manuela Yamada from Materia Brasil. In the video she guides us through the website of Materia Brasil wich gives access to and shares openly valuable information on sustainable materials. I will annotate the video in the coming days (when are we talking about what). But you can already take a look. [Materia Brazil - Open Database On Circular Materials - OSCEdays] Stay tuned [image] (In the backgr…

Places & Spaces

SOLUTION – How to equip a citizen open lab with the circular economy?

Update: This topic was granted ‚Solution’. It shares below in comment 13 a well made document outlining how to make circular economy principles and ideas a key driver in the set up of a community driven local fabrication space. It is on a conceptual meta level but because of it’s density and clarity a great benchmark resource for everyone that want’s to set up such a space. ##We are We are an open community and an Open Biomimicry FabLab based in Rennes, France. We are Biomers and we rock ou…

SOLUTION – Hack Your City Circular With 'The City Is Open Source'

This topic was granted ‚Solution’. It shares an easy to follow guide for circular street art and a link to a website with a big collection of well documented hacks to make your city a bit more circular. [image] T H E - C I T Y - I S - O P E N - S O U R C E The City Is Open Source is a project promoting and researching hacking as the tool to make our cities open and circular. The project builds a COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTED HACKS everyone can quickly use to transform their city a bit mor…

Repair, Reuse, Recycle

SOLUTION - Repair Your Electronics With iFixit

[image] I Fixit is a company producing and sharing open manuals to enable customers and workshops worldwide to repair smartphones and similar devices. Repairing is an important factor for any sustainable economy. But most manufacturers don’t have an interest in making their products long-lasting or repairable. Some seem to make it even more difficult to do it with every new iteration of their products. But iFixit got some real hacker spirit! They work till they have found a solution and then …

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Industrial Production

SOLUTION – Save Water In Jeans Production With Levi Strauss

#Open Source: Water Innovation by LEVI STRAUSS & CO [image] img public domain ##What? @Jaime summarized it in his article like this: “Levi Strauss has spent nine years perfecting techniques for reducing the water used to make a pair of jeans or a denim jacket. Now the company has decided to make all of those techniques open source. If everyone adopts them, they claim the industry could save 50 billion litres of water. For the moment Levis has just shared the documentation in open source, …

Textiles & Fashion

Solution - Open Source Circular Fashion (Dot.Com)

Hi, I met Anastasia Pistofidou and she showed her website Open Source Circular Fashion. Right now the page is still young and not a lot of content is on it but she says she will work on it and make way more things happen in the future. Push her But the page has already some solutions ready for download. LINK: http://oscircularfashion.herokuapp.com/ Ansastasia is also behind the book about Open Source Bioplastics

SOLUTION – Circular Textiles Manual

In the context of the OSCEdays 2015 @sophia from interloom created an extended and useful Manual on Circular Textiles. ###DOWNLOAD: Open Source Circular Textile Manual.odt (47.9 KB) And here you can get some impressions how it was made and used so far.

Biospheres, Food & Farming

SOLUTION – Afforestt, an Open way to reforest

Update: This topic was granted ‘Solution’. It was initially shared under the title “Welcome Afforestt, an Open way to reforest”. The link to a full documentation about how to set up a forest is shared in the topic. Hey everyone, On wednesday I had a great call with Shubhendu Sharma from Afforestt. You might have seen him in his pretty cool TED talk (4 minutes), explaining how he is able to grow a forest 10x faster without chemical and pesticides. The methodology is already in Open Sour…

SOLUTION – Make Compost Not War

Update: This topic was granted ‚Solution’. It was initially shared under the name: „Workshop – Make Compost Not War, Guerilla Composting“. It contains links to external resources about home Wormcomposting and Bokashi (a special form of composting). It is a good pointer that there are a lot of great open source resources about home composting on the web – forums, videos, websites in several languages. Let this topic be your starting point. Composting is fun! ##Wer sind wir / Who are we Aria…

Business Development

SOLUTION - (Videos & Tool on) Open Source Business Models for Circular Economy

[image] Summary / Introduction This is an online video course about Business Models for Open Source Circularity. In it’s core is a tool you can download and use for a brainstorming and business model mapping session. The tool is explained in 9 videos. For all videos is a transcript available. Reading is usually faster the video. The series was first published in April 2016 with a few additions and updates added later. The updates are posted above the original series. We suggest to start with …

SOLUTION – Circular Design Guide: 24 Open To Use Brainstorming Tools For Business Developers

Update: This topic is granted ‚Solution’. It shares the link to the Circular Design Guide a collection of marketing and business development oriented methods “to help you understand, define, make, and release circular innovations.” It is design thinking oriented and provides easy to understand and easy to use worksheets for brainstorming sessions for people interested in business development. [image] The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO published a “Circular Design Guide”. ##List Of…

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