The $2M New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize challenged designers, entrepreneurs, academics, and scientists to rethink the plastics system and eliminate packaging waste.

Meet the winners and follow their progress throughout 2018 here: tiny.cc/innovationprize.

In November 2016, the New Plastics Economy released a statement calling for a global ban on oxo-degradable plastics.

Read the full statement here.

EU Commissioner for Environment, Karmenu Vella, has endorsed the New Plastics Economy's $2M Innovation Prize. This initiative, run in 2016 with OpenIDEO and NineSigma, aims to foster solutions for plastic waste.

Discover the recently announced winners and follow their progress by visiting the official page: tiny.cc/innovationprize.

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry endorses the New Plastics Economy's $2M Innovation Prize. This initiative, launched in 2016, was a collaboration with OpenIDEO and NineSigma.

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UN Environment Director Erik Solheim endorsed the New Plastics Economy's $2 million Innovation Prize. This initiative, launched in 2016, was a collaboration with OpenIDEO and NineSigma.

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Danone CEO Emmanuel Faber supports the New Plastics Economy's $2M Innovation Prize. This initiative was launched in 2016 in collaboration with OpenIDEO and NineSigma.

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Veolia CEO Antoine Frerot endorses the New Plastics Economy's $2M Innovation Prize. This initiative, run in 2016 with OpenIDEO and NineSigma, aimed to foster innovation in plastics.

Meet the recently announced winners and follow their progress by visiting the official page: tiny.cc/innovationprize.

Sunrun CEO Lynn Jurich points to a fundamental flaw in the electricity system. She notes that despite a 50% drop in production costs, consumer prices have increased by 30%. Jurich concludes that the system is broken and will continue to become more expensive.

Further discussions on this topic and related issues are available from [Climate One](https://climateone.org), including specific events like "Cloudy Days for Solar" which can be explored [here](https://climateone.org/events/cloudy-days-solar).

Severin Borenstein, a UC Berkeley Haas School of Business professor, explains that while rooftop solar is an economically sound choice for California residents, its current pricing does not accurately reflect the true costs.

For more information, visit Climate One and explore the specific event, Cloudy Days on Solar.

Marcus Glover, CEO at WRAP, highlights the significance of the recent report from the Circular Fibres Initiative.

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Cradle to Cradle pioneer William McDonough emphasizes the importance of the "five goods" concept.

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Laurent Auguste, Veolia's Senior EVP for Development Innovation & Markets, highlights the critical need for a collaborative coalition to reinvent the textiles economy.

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The Circular Fibres report reimagines the clothing and footwear system, identifying new business models, technological innovation, radical collaboration, and rapid acceleration as critical for this transformation.

Jason Kibbey, CEO of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, endorsed the findings of this recent report, titled "A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion's future."

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Designers are crucial in shaping fashion's future and establishing a new textiles economy through their understanding and participation in a circular economy.

Burak Cakmak, Dean of Fashion at Parsons School of Design, emphasizes this need, particularly highlighting the Circular Fibres Initiative.

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Lewis Perkins, CEO of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, supports the Circular Fibres Initiative and its recently released report, "A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion's future."

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Kate Daly, SVP at NYC Economic Development Corporation, emphasizes the Circular Fibres Initiative's transformative power. By bringing together a wide range of stakeholders, the initiative aims to revolutionize the textiles sector through circular economy principles.

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The Circular Fibres Initiative's recent report, "A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion's future," is widely supported by businesses and organizations across the fashion sector.

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Katrin Ley from Fashion for Good highlights the parallels between her organization's work and the findings from the Circular Fibres Initiative's report, "A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion's future."

This report outlines a shared vision for transforming the textile industry. Learn more about these insights at tiny.cc/fibres.