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Nutrition: Cascade of value retention
Nearly 900,000 tons of edible food is lost in Flanders every year. Households throw away a quarter of this at home. In the hospitality and catering industry, a lot of food surpluses also end up in incineration via the residual waste bag. In the …
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First aid for dental accidents: Info sheet
This information sheet was drawn up by the Flemish Institute for Oral Health and indicates what to do in the event of a broken or displaced (milk) tooth.
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Circular Economy: Infographic
This infographic is the principle diagram of the circular economy: the butterfly diagram.
It shows the different possibilities for circularity for biological (left half) and technical (right half) materials, in order of value retention for those …
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Circular Economy: Business Models
This image summarizes some typical business models that can be used within a circular economy. It is a Flanders Circular adaptation of an Aaccenture graph.
Five typical business models are given, spanning the lifetime of a product:
- Circular input: use …
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Do animals have feelings and a personality?
Do swans fall in love? Can a great tit be arrogant? How Smart Are Goldfish Really? And can a dog mourn its dead owner? Rudi D'Hooge, professor of biological psychology at KU Leuven, explains in this podcast why answers to those questions are not …
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Allergy: Eos Science
Why does our body react so strangely to certain substances? And how do you know if you have an allergy? Professor Dominique Bullens, affiliated with UZ and KU Leuven, answers these and other allergy questions in the podcast Ask Het Aan.
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