From waste to recyclables with single-stream-recycling
Per year, Zurich energy Utility company (ewz) accrues approximately 1,500 tons of industrial waste, including items such as large 60-year-old electric wires containing copper, energy transformers or even old street lamps. Since 2018, ewz pioneers the...
New life for a waste: pellet from coffee dregs
C.D.A. di Cattelan S.r.l. is a business that has operated since 1976 in the vending sector, managing and installing automatic distributors for the supply of food and drink. Over the years, the business has successfully distinguished itself in project...
Pumpa Upcycle - upcycled textiles made of waste
Instead of getting thrown away and burnt, useless textiles are received by Pumpa Design Oy and are upcycled into new products: dog/cat beds, grocery bags, bags and pouches in different sizes. Textile waste comes from waste collection companies / orga...
EcoMatelas's refurbished mattresses and bed bases
EcoMatelas has created the first world process for refurbished and fully recycled mattresses and bed bases. In just 2 years, EcoMatelas has already recycled and re-used more than 6000 old mattresses and bed bases which were meant to be incinerated or...
Zeme's thermal Cracking of Plastics and conversion into synthetic renewable eco-...
Cyprus is an island with limited natural mineral resources. All of the liquid fuel used on the island is imported. Recovered plastic is either landfilled on the island or exported as low value recycled material. The project aims to capture recovered ...
Energido – Veolia’s solution to capture the energy potential of wastewaters
Replacing fossil fuels by renewable resources thanks to permanent rather than intermittent sources (solar, wind) is now a possibility. Veolia demonstrated it with Energido, an innovation which allows recovering heat from wastewater. With Energido, Ve...
Polystyrene Loop: Demonstrating the economic and technical viability of closed-l...
Polystyrene (PS) Foam is used for a broad range of products and applications and predominantly used as insulation in the construction sector. Until 2015, a large portion of the PS Foam used for insulation included the flame-retardant HBCDD. In the Eu...
Refurb – using the full potential of IT Equipment
Refurb is a Danish company that buys, ‘refurbishes’ (renovates) and sells used IT equipment such as smartphones, tablets and computers. Dedicated to value recovery, Refurb prolongs the lifespan of products which are too often discarded before the...
Ferrovial's Circular Solution: Carbon production from Organic Greenhouse Waste (...
Production of charcoal from greenhouse vegetable waste, thus avoiding the treatment of OGW as waste. The solution focuses on the use of the material as a raw material, suitable for the production of a solid biofuel. All this, aligned with the princip...