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International Repair Day returns October 17, its tenth year. The global data behind it shows furniture, textiles, and household items get fixed more often than anything with a plug. Check the global data behind the day…
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Dutch Design Week 2026 runs October 17-25 under a theme that never says "circular." Its two most talked-about exhibitions are…
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Furniture Just Became an EU Policy Priority. Here's What "Repairable by Design" Actually Means. On July 18, 2024, a regulation…
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ReUse Alliance inventoried just 235 furniture repairers in the Netherlands, While 2030 demand is projected at 6,000 to 9,000. What…
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What a Sold-Out Free Furniture Giveaway Says About Rotterdam's Appetite for Reuse. On August 21, Erasmus University Rotterdam's…
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Paris Design Week 2026 Is Betting on Reuse. Paris Design Week runs September 10 to 19, 2026, and this year its biggest venues…
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The Designer Who Turns Discarded Chairs Into Something New, One Hundred Times Over. For a hundred days, one man walked past the…
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A New Study Shows What Circular Economy Metrics Miss. A mother in Chicago told researchers that her kids were happy. Not because…
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The EU Just Made Repair a Legal Right. Furniture Isn't Covered - Yet. Somewhere in Europe this week, a washing machine broke. A…
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The Netherlands doesn't have a circular economy problem, at least not on paper. In 2024, its circular material use rate hit 32.7…
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A dresser that would sell for twenty euros secondhand doesn't sound like something worth agonising over. And yet somewhere in a…
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The Artists Are Already Here. The Clients Aren't. There are about 16,000 visual artists working in the Netherlands right now…
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What to Do With Old Furniture: Keep, Restore, Donate, or Transform. There's a particular kind of standoff that happens in most…
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Most people assume that when a piece of furniture leaves their home for the last time, it gets recycled. It's a comforting…
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A personal story about memory, materials, and why some objects deserve a second life. By Hanaa Yazdi, Founder of ArtCycle. For…
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The real transformation in upcycling isn't the object — it's the story it carries forward. We are obsessed with the reveal. Scroll…
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While the city tears itself apart and puts itself back together, one designer has been quietly collecting the pieces — and giving…
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A Maker's Guide. There's a particular kind of magic that happens the moment you look at a chipped chair, a tangle of old wire, or…
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Inspiring Circular Design Through Paper & Cardboard. At ArtCycle, we believe that waste is not the end of a product's story—it is…
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The Netherlands entered 2026 with a clear message: circularity must deliver results, not just promises. National policy still…
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Most sustainability content tells you what to feel. This article tells you what's actually happening — with the numbers to back it…
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Waste isn't what it used to be. In 2026 Netherlands, it's raw material. The Port of Rotterdam is proving it at scale: recovering…
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Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek traveled to Dakar on a whim. A lost key changed everything. Piet Hein Eek, the Dutch designer who…
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When Rotterdam started asking its residents to imagine a circular neighbourhood, it didn't hand them a policy document. It gave…
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Across Europe and beyond, a growing number of contemporary artists are no longer treating waste as a subject to comment on — they…
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There's a room in Amsterdam every Saturday morning where strangers gather around broken things. A toaster that stopped heating. A…
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In 2023, the Dutch government reaffirmed its commitment to a fully circular economy by 2050 — one where no material is wasted…
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