Sustainable Materials in the Creative Industries: A scoping report for the AHRC (Redacted Version)

This report contains the results of a twelve-month scoping study of current sustainable practice around materials across the creative industries. The project team has explored current and immanent sustainable practice around the sourcing, use, disposal, reuse, recycling, and upcycling of materials, to help understand the creative sector's ongoing responses and its current and potential contribution to the development of a circular economy. It provides a snapshot of practice and perceptions around material sustainability in the creative industries, identifying existing trends and showcasing cutting-edge developments, as well as flagging sector-wide and discipline specific barriers that will have to be negotiated or addressed to achieve widespread sustainably orientated practice

SMICI case study 6: Precious plastics

One of 13 Case Studies undertaken to support the main body of the report commissioned by the AHRC as part of the Sustainable Materials in the Creative Industries project. This case study (pp167-170) focuses on the Precious Plastics initiative, its take-up in the UK and relationship to sustainability

SMICI case study 13: Urban forestry

One of 13 Case Studies undertaken to support the main body of the report commissioned by the AHRC as part of the Sustainable Materials in the Creative Industries project. This case study (pp197-200) focuses on urban forestry as a practice and its relationship to sustainability