Henkel pioneers digital watermark technology with new Vernel product range
Henkel is one of more than 85 companies and organisations of the new cross-value chain initiative “HolyGrail 2.0”, launched by AIM, the European Brands Association. The goal of the initiative is to assess whether a pioneering digital technology c...
The ReCircle Recycling System
ReCircle is a system that allows for 100% closed-loop recycling of glass, PET & HDPE plastic containers, and steel and aluminium cans by guaranteeing zero contamination of used-materials, enabling households and offices etc to guarantee their u...
ESG Green yarn collection - #hackyourjeans platform
As a Belgian spinning mill, European Spinning Group’s “Green collection” is an upcycled yarn collection made out of recycled post-consumer denim or recycled polyester, blended with fibres such as Tencel®, rPET, virgin raw white and dope dy...
Close The Glass Loop - The European ambition to collect glass more and better, t...
‘Close the Glass Loop’ is an industry platform, initiated by FEVE -the EU federation of container glass producers- to unite the glass collection and recycling value chain, and to establish a material stewardship programme that will result in mo...
PLASBLOCK - Solving the problem of mixed waste plastics and polymers on landfill...
We produce waste-based blocks for wood pallets; 100% made of polymer mixed waste and biomass waste. By using resources from landfills directly to logistics value chain, we provide a longer lifespan for wood pallets, as well as better shock absorption...
Reda: Recycling of by products
Reda, an Italian wool fabric company produces active “Padding”; a non-woven fabric created using post-industrial textile waste (by-products) coming from production cycle. This fabric is highly resistant and capable of decomposing over tim...
Suckõrs natural reed straws and materials
Suckõrs, an Estonian company, produces drinking straws and other goods using reed as a raw material. Reed is a great alternative to plastic-made items. It is indeed largely available in Estonia and in the Baltic Sea Region as well as all over Europe...
KLIMIS: From olive pips to BBQ briquettes in an efficient way
We leave in Kalamata, a renowned area for the production of olive and olive oil. Since 1968, we bake lime stones to produce putty lime used in the construction sector and quick lime used as a natural fertiliser in soils, using a by-product sustainabl...
3SIXTY-Turning Recycled Plastic Bottles Into Towels
3SIXTY takes end of life, single use plastic bottles and/or ocean waste and mixes these with cotton to produce towels that look, feel and perform just like regular towels for the hotel, retail and cruise line industry. Our products provide our custom...
Sedacor: CORK-A-TEX Yarn. Yarn with high incorporation of recycled cork
CORK-A-TEX is a project led by Sedacor (a cork-making company) in partnership with Portuguese textile companies Têxteis Penedo, CITEVE and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Cork is the bark of the oak cork tree and is a bio-base...
ReBlend: Circular fabrics & fashion
ReBlend is a Dutch label for 100% recycled fabrics and fashion made from mainly post-consumer blended textile waste that otherwise would have been incinerated. We make new textiles in 4 steps:no longer wearable textiles are sorted by colour and mat...
Seramco Project: Secondary raw materials for concrete precast products
Across the world, raw materials become a scarcer resource. In North-West Europe, the construction sector uses 50 % of all raw materials and produces one third of all waste in the region. Although 70 % of waste are recovered, only a low percentage und...
Infinited Fiber: New Sustainable Fiber Production Technology
Infinited Fiber (IFC) is a Finnish company developing and commercializing a patented Cellulose Carbamate technology. Cellulose Carbamate (CCA) technology enables producing cotton-like, sustainable fibre out of post-consumer textile waste, cardboard w...
PVC Up Cycling - Circular Economy and Zero Waste with the upcycling of waste fro...
The aim of the “PVC UpCycling” project is to look at the passage in the current REDEL company chain, from a linear model to a circular economy model through actions aimed at the Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) of electric cables from a disposal ...
Elysium Nordic’s pyrolysis process recycles 30,000 tons of end-of-life tyres
From 2021 Elysium Nordic will recover 9,000 tons of carbon black from 30,000 tons of end-of-life tyres, which will result in an annual CO2 reduction of up to 18,000 tons. Elysium Nordic uses pyrolysis when re-using the end-of-life tyres. In pyrolysis...
Gugler*: a company devoted to circular economy and sustainability
Gugler* is a communication company with a focus on printing, advertising and web solutions, located in Melk and St. Pölten in Austria. Since the company started in 1989, protecting the environment was always a big aim and therefore they steadily mov...
Large scale recycling of cellulosic textiles
As re:newcell, we receive pre and post-consumer cellulosic textile waste (mostly cotton clothing) to our recycling plant. The material is shredded, de-buttoned, de-zipped, de-colored and turned into a slurry. The slurry is treated and bleached in a c...
The Carbon2Chem® project
thyssenkrupp is a diversified industrial company thatemploys around 158,000 people in 79 countries. Our engineering expertise has been evolving for more than 200 years. This is why we are playing a leading role in developing innovative solutions to g...
RE-EASY a circular furniture system
Arcadia Design envisions a design that changes as its owner does. It produces a modular and circular furniture system based on a design-for-reuse structure with registered patent which grants stability with less material and is easy to be assembled/d...
Finlayson's Rag Rugs
Finlayson business model is based on collecting used bed sheets and recycling them into rag rugs. The company began collecting home textiles in its shops, but also brought recycling within reach of customers by using its online store: customers who h...
VinylPlus®: the Voluntary Commitment to Sustainable Development by the European...
VinylPlus® is the renewed ten-year Voluntary Commitment to Sustainable Development by the European PVC industry. The commitment was developed through dialogue with stakeholders, including industry, NGOs, regulators, civil society, and PVC users. It ...
Tekniska verken i Linköping turns waste into HFC free cooling
In Linköping, the largest part of the district cooling is produced from district heating through absorption cooling, a well-proven technique with water for refrigerant and lithium bromide as an absorbent. The absorption process is based on the same ...
AkzoNobel's Waste2Chemistry: a new circular value chain
As concern about the scarcity of energy and raw materials continues to grow, AkzoNobel is among a group of companies looking to use waste as a feedstock to make chemicals. The project began in 2014 as a collaboration between AkzoNobel, several other ...
Decreasing textile sector’s footprint while designing eco-circular textile sol...
TDV Industries focuses on lowering the environmental footprint at every step of the life-cycle: sourcing, processing, distribution, product usage and end-of-life and new life. The process uses bio-based (bio-cotton, linen and hemp having the lowest e...
OCCGuarantee® Project
The initiative tackles both sustainability and social aspects. The social projects launched in Brazil involve 150 family farmers producing Organic Cotton OCCGuarantee® which is then spun in Catalonia and weaved in Portugal. The final garments are co...
Sustainable Shipping by AkzoNobel
Shipping is by far the world’s most efficient form of transport but, because more than 85% of the world’s traded goods travel by sea, it still has a major environmental impact. Shipping is a big sector; the approximately 100,000 ships account for...
AGROAMB PRODALT's Fertilizers based in organic waste
We develop organic and waste-based fertilisers (from waste to resources as fertilisers or amendments). We treat organic waste and animal-by-products with lime to sanitized and made organic amendments or fertilisers.This is an alternative treatment to...
Recover Upcycled Yarn System
Recover turns textile waste into new yarns for multiple life-cycles and produces the lowest impact textiles for apparel, accessory and home textile markets. The core added value is the offer of recycled cotton – the key ingredient of all company’...
GXN: The Future of Circular Architecture
GXN is a Danish company specialised in developing and implementing green and innovative solutions to architecture and design. GXN’s portfolio spans widely, covering areas such as architecture and design projects as well as research projects and ext...
Biominerals Finland's earth alkalizing bio- and waste incineration fly ashes in ...
Hundreds of thousands tons of fly ashes from wood, field cultivation residues, peat and waste incineration processes are landfilled or applied in low value applications in Finland. Earth alkalising the fly ashes, formed inside the combustion proces...
Stretching the lifecycle: ArcelorMittal’s rental business model for steel shee...
When constructing quay walls, dams, underground car parks, tunnels, bridges and trunk roads, many alternate construction methods exist to retain earth or water, whether temporary or permanent. Steel sheet piles are particularly well suited for most o...
STEELANOL's closed loop for steel process gases
From the gases produced in the steel mill furnaces, by catalytical processes or by fermentation with bacteria, high value hydrocarbon products can be produced. Some of these newly developed technologies, after more than 10 years of research and pilot...
ACCIONA’s approach to waste and debris management
The trees, shrubs and grass maintenance and conservation tasks generate wood waste such as trunks, branches, leaves and mowing remains. The goal of this initiative is to reuse, recover and vaporisation the maximum volume of plant debris and reduce th...
SAICA Natur’s retailers post-consumer plastic waste recycling for new packagin...
Saica company collects plastic waste of retail companies and recycles it into plastic pellets. Saica delivers the re-granulate plastic to the film, packaging, bags suppliers of the original retailer. This way the circle is closed and the retailer get...
Revertia's Reuse Program of Obsolete Computer Equipment
Revertia is a Spanish company founded in 2010. Its primary purpose is to provide services in the management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and contribute to the efficient use of resources. The start of Revertia is linked to the i...