When Site Waste Management Plans were scrapped in 2013, waste went up — not down.

📊 DEFRA data shows construction & demolition waste rose nearly 20% in just four years.

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When considering existing assets, demolition should never be the default. Policy must require justification for taking a building down. From an embodied carbon perspective, keeping buildings in use is almost always the lower-carbon choice.

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Stakeholder mapping shows how complex the circular built environment really is. Aligning the value network is critical to achieving circularity. Early client and developer decisions carry the most weight and can lock in decades of carbon.

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@robertgordonuni.bsky.social found 90% of UK oil & gas workers have skills transferable to offshore wind. The barrier isn’t people—it’s policy. Let’s build on what we have.

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The RSA & Zero Waste Scotland identified 6 high-value, cross-sector reuse opportunities from North Sea decommissioning: steel, pipelines, vessels, cables, tanks & modular units. These aren’t waste – they’re materials for a regenerative industrial future.

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A circular, regenerative approach to designing the built environment recognises that business-as-usual has driven six of the nine planetary boundaries beyond safe limits - the systems we rely on, from climate and biosphere integrity to nutrient flows and land-system change.

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By 2030, planned fossil fuel production is set to be 2x what we can safely burn to stay within 1.5°C. Even if we burn only existing reserves, we're still on track to overshoot.

Existing and new oil and gas fields are stranded assets in waiting.

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