SPACE10, the IKEA-funded, Copenhagen-based research and design lab “on a mission to create a better everyday life for people and the planet” is to close this week. SPACE10 was established a decade ago as an external innovation lab for the IKEA brand “that seeked to re-imagine what a home furnishing company could, and should, be in the 21st century to address some of the urgent challenges we face on this wonderful planet we call home”. Access to its open-source projects, reports, guidelines, presentation templates, and team handbook will continue to be provided online. Read more about its work here

Clothes made from recycled textiles are emerging in Europe, highlighting new business opportunities that also reduce the industry’s environmental footprint, according to a report from the EC’s Horizon publication, which claims that “the European apparel industry is moving towards more sustainable production”. Read the story here

Using spent coffee grounds to replace some of the sand in concrete makes the material stronger and could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coffee grounds in landfill, according to a piece from the New Scientist. Read it here

Design Week meets the founders and in-house design team at electric bike company, Volt. They discuss their design process as well as their experience with applying for government-funded environmental design tenders. Read the piece here

From 20–23 September, design studio Pearson Lloyd will be showing ‘Material Change’, an exhibition of its “ongoing research to improve the circularity of the mass-produced products for which we are responsible”. The exhibition will be part of the Material Matters fair at the Oxo Tower Wharf Barge House in London. Details here

The Circular Economy “is now being used to serve the interests of the huge corporations that are damaging our climate and spewing toxics into our communities”. For the Grist website, Joseph Winters looks at “How the ‘circular economy’ went from environmentalist dream to marketing buzzword”. Read his in-depth analysis here

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