Circular economy

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How Anh Duong turns plastic waste into products, learnings, livelihoods in Vietnam

and October 28, 2025

How Anh Duong turns plastic waste into products, learnings, livelihoods in Vietnam

In the heart of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, plastic waste is more than an envir­on­ment­al issue; it is a com­munity challenge. 

Anh Duong Cen­ter is facing up to the chal­lenge by turn­ing plastic waste into products, learn­ings, and livelihoods. 

Their innov­at­ive school-based mod­el has earned recog­ni­tion from the 2025 EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Awards in the ‘People’ category.

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Belgian B&B implements sustainable circular solutions: A case study

, and August 16, 2022
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Lighthouse at Nieuwpoort, Belgium. By Wouter Martens (CC0) via Unsplash. Arrows by GDJ (CC0) via Pixabay.

A bed & break­fast in Nieuw­poort, Bel­gi­um has lever­aged the sup­port of a European Uni­on-fun­­ded pro­ject to imple­ment viable ‘cir­cu­lar’ solu­tions. Accord­ing to authors Angelo Sciacca, Lucien von Schomberg, and Eline Brutyn, the B&B’s own­ers have set a good example for oth­er travel & tour­ism entre­pren­eurs to fol­low.  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too […]

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Save to sustain: Frugal innovation & traditional knowledge in circular tourism

July 13, 2021

Island. By Tomas Anunziata (CC0) via Pexels. https://www.pexels.com/photo/island-with-floating-boat-from-drone-3876404/ Vine. By gyromatical (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/vine-frame-border-leaves-wreath-6184947/ Family. By Clker-Free-Vector-Images (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/vectors/family-parents-kids-children-young-43873/

Angelo Sciacca was the first guest author to intro­duce the concept of the cir­cu­lar eco­nomy to this web­site when he argued for its poten­tial to make small island des­tin­a­tions more resi­li­ent and less depend­ent on travel & tour­ism. In this, his third “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Sciacca adds frugal innov­a­tion and tra­di­tion­al know­ledge to his […]

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How can a circular tourism economy help repurpose heritage buildings?

April 22, 2021

A home. Abandoned. By Tama66 (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/users/tama66-1032521/

Aban­doned build­ings can be an eye­sore, a blight on a land- or city­scape, and even an embar­rass­ment to many loc­als. Yet they are all a part of a place’s his­tory and her­it­age. While very few would argue that all are worth sav­ing, many her­it­age build­ings do indeed deserve a new lease of life and may […]

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Travel & tourism’s ‘critical’ rethink and its imperative shift to circular economics

February 18, 2021
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Maya Bay, Koh Phi Phi Leh, Thailand in 2014. By 2017, tsome 3,500 people visited the beach made famous by The Beach. Image by Nicolas Vollmer (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maya_Bay_boats.jpg overlaid by a question mark by geralt (CC0) via Pixabay. https://www.freeimg.net/photo/1633662/questionmark-who-where-how

For the sake of grow­ing well-being and shar­ing the tour­ism com­mons with the great­er major­ity, cir­cu­lar eco­nom­ic approaches to travel & tour­ism must replace neo­lib­er­al cap­it­al­ist growth mod­els. To make that argu­ment, research­er Phoebe Ever­ing­ham takes a crit­ic­al the­or­et­ic­al approach. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [Thanks to Joseph M Cheer for invit­ing Dr Ever­ing­ham to […]

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From linear to circular: How to build resilience in small island tourism destinations

February 4, 2021
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Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Picture: David Kirkland. Circular arrows by Gordon Johnson (CC0) via Pixabay (added to image by "GT").

The clue is in its name. Travel & tour­is­m’s fatal flaw is its total reli­ance on free­dom of move­ment. Lock­downs and bor­der clos­ures in response to COVID-19 have blind­sided tour­ism-depend­ent eco­nom­ies and dev­ast­ated live­li­hoods. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, sus­tain­able tour­ism con­sult­ant Angelo Sciacca argues that now is a good time for the stake­hold­ers of […]

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