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Recovery economy: Environmentally friendly and financially beneficial
By repairing a product instead of replacing it (purchasing a new product), the lifespan of the product is extended. This saves materials and greenhouse gas emissions during the production of a new product.
For products that consume a lot of energy, …
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The material footprint of Flemish consumption
The materials footprint of Flanders or Raw Material Consumption (RMC) is the total of primary raw materials that are extracted worldwide as a result of Flemish consumption.
These primary raw materials are minerals, fossil raw materials, biomass and …
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Global environmental benefits through local and circular textile consumption
In order to meet our Flemish consumption needs, we currently have to obtain a large part of the required raw materials from abroad. Reuse, recycling and high-quality, local production of textiles can ensure that the extraction of primary raw …
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Climate footprint: Sustainable compared to a fast fashion T-shirt
European consumption of textiles has the fourth largest impact on the environment and climate change, after food, housing and mobility. Textile consumption is also in the top three factors that place the most pressure on water and land use and in …
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CleanTechPunt: The digital meter
In this article you will learn everything about the digital meter.
Below you will find the content of the article:
- purpose of the digital meter;
- ideal scenario;
- influence of the introduction of the digital meter for consumers and society.
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Building learning labs and innovative learning spaces
A practical guide developed by European Schoolnet to support schools and teachers in the roll-out of STEM labs and a Future Classroom. The secondary school RHIZO Lyceum OLV Vlaanderen is described in this guide as a practical example.
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COSMO: Virtual reality and augmented reality
COSMO is a research project involving companies from the manufacturing industry, research groups and secondary schools.
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Circular economy and ecodesign: Brochure
In this brochure you will find the information and content of everything that Flanders Circular has done in recent years regarding Circular Economy and Ecodesign. It contains methods for tackling your curriculum, and workshops/welding/paths that …
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Economic Skills: Project
Is it feasible to teach basic economic skills to all first-grade students through a project? That is the research question that we want to answer on the basis of the literature study and the project.
First, we examined whether elements were already …
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Lesson inspiration from the port: Container giants
The port of Antwerp regularly gets the news about a possible expansion, employment, container ships and much more. You can use current events as a starting point in class.
In this article about container giants we provide a brief explanation of the …
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The modal split of the port of Antwerp
The traffic problems on the highways around Antwerp make the news regularly. In addition to the frequent commuter traffic, the flow of goods, the so-called modal split , also has a major impact on this.
That makes traffic & transport a current …
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Textile sorting and recycling and reuse
This is information about the Flemish policy and the agreements on discarded textiles.
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