Ladle furnace slag as alternative raw material in cement industry
AEIFOROS S.A. is an industrial by-products- and wastes- recycling company which offers solutions for the valorization of these materials as secondary resources, raw materials and solid fuels for other industries according to the principles of circula...
Waste-free consumption of tech
Closing the Loop (CTL) offers closed loop services for workplace hardware that deliver value for the tech industry, their customers and society. CTL helps turns (organizational) values into appealing results for green IT, today. Our service,’ w...
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...
GH Form Aps - Street and Park Equipment making the City Greener
GH Form is a family-owned iron foundry founded in 1918. GH Form’s goal is that 100% of the recycled materials they use to manufacture their cast iron become part of a reuse cycle. GH Form produces park and street equipment and furniture for the...
EcoBean - converting coffee waste into valuable bio-products
Ecobean has performed detailed research on potential end use for coffee waste, which contains valuable chemical compounds. That included different methods of processing and creating diverse goods with useful properties coming from recycled Spent Coff...
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...
CambiTHP: harvesting resources from wastewater and sludge
In most urban communities around the world, human waste from toilets is collected in sewer lines and pumped to a nearby municipal wastewater treatment plant. Wastewater treatment yields treated water, which is clean enough to be discharged and re-joi...
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...
Fischer Lighting's Circular lamps reduce the amount of plastic in the oceans
Traditional light fittings are commonly designed so the whole lamp has to be changed after end-of-life or if you want to change to a more energy-friendly light source. With the sustainable design of the Fischer Family lamps this can be avoided. The d...
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...
Versalis and Montello - New polyethylene grades made from recycled packaging
This project aims at producing a range of polyethylene products containing post-consumer plastics for a number of technical applications, including: thin packaging film, drip irrigation pipes, industrial bags and other types of packaging. To truly cl...
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...
KLS PurePrint – Possibly the most sustainable printing company in the world
After many years of steadily declining sales of printed matter, KLS PurePrint chose to change their business model in a more sustainable direction in 2007. Inspired by the UN Sustainability Goals established in 2015, KLS PurePrint incorporated a circ...
Utilisation of alternative resources in the Austrian cement industry
This example is about substituting natural resources by using alternative resources for the production of cements in Austria. Alternative fuels provide the thermal energy needed for the burning process. Especially the utilisation of non-recyclable pl...
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...
Neste's Green Travel
In cooperation with Neste, Savonlinja is introducing a surcharge, called Green Journey, on the normal bus ticket price. The customer is free to decide the amount of this additional charge. Savonlinja will use the money collected through the Green Jo...
Recyclable synthetic turf
Once synthetic grass reaches the end of its life-cycle, it is usually incinerated or ends up in a landfill. Versalis, in collaboration with the Radici Group – the yarn producer – and Safitex – the producer of the carpet (Eco Next) &...
Thermal insulation panels from post-consumer polystyrene products
The project aims at using secondary raw material deriving from end-of-life products (mainly from polystyrene made packaging) to produce expandable polystyrene (EPS), suitable to be transformed into expanded polystyrene sheets for buildings’ thermal...
Total Homes Co-operative
Total Homes Co-operative is a circular social enterprise operating in Scotland’s housing industry. The Co-operative is supported as part of Zero Waste Scotland’s Resource Efficient Circular Economy Accelerator Programme, funded by the Scottish Go...
Recovered and recycled industrial packaging
The project has been developed with the aim of recovering and recycling industrial polyethylene packaging – such as bags and liners – used for the shipping of Versalis’ products on pallets and by truck/containers. It involves the collec...
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...
Nuova Fratelli Boretti textile processes from regenerated waste
Nuova Fratelli Boretti s.r.l. has created an engineering process in order to regenerate waste from pre-consumer textile processes based on wool camel and cashmere, in order to obtain Raw Material for textile industries. The company is a well-rooted c...
KALK A/S: building sustainable with lime mortar
KALK A/S – established in 1976 – quickly discovered the need for lime products of high quality for restoring and maintaining historical buildings. The company’s focus is on recyclable and breathable masonry. KALK A/S want to promote their 100-p...
AFRA sustainable management and recycling of end-of-life aircraft and components
The Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA) is the leading global organisation for developing and promoting the safe and sustainable management of end-of-life aircraft and components. AFRA currently counts with 70 members who benefit from the eff...
FLOOW2: B2B Sharing Marketplace as a Circular and Future Proof Solution
Our society is changing. ‘Us’ is becoming the new ‘me’. Access to products is becoming more important than actually owning them. We are currently in the midst of a transition towards a circular economy in which we need to make more efficient ...
LDPE PCR foamed film with post-consumption recycled materia
The efficient use of materials and its reintroduction in the consumption system as new resources through recycling are two of the main pillars of the Circular Economy paradigm. Based on these pillars Ecoembes and The Dow Chemical Company have develop...
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 ...
PC as a Service
Dell does more than just creating eco-friendly products or one-off CSR initiatives. At Dell they incorporate sustainability into everything they do – from design to recycling and every step in between. Through innovation and focus on efficiency, ...
Saint-Gobain in Poland - practical solutions in construction sector
The Institute for Sustainable Development, leading Polish think-tank dealing with sustainable development prepared in 2015 a report ”Challenging time – time to respond. Towards circular economy” to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Saint...
Jeans to Jeans
In September 2017, HNST (pronounce as “honest”) had a collection campaign where people could drop off their old and unworn denims at more than 80 collecting points in Flanders (Belgium). In two weeks time, more than 6000 old pair of denims were c...
Circular architecture
Lendager Group specializes in delivering circular solutions to create future sustainable cities and buildings. The construction industry is responsible for more than one third of all materials, produced waste and carbon emissions worldwide. It is the...
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...
Fischer Lighting: Circular Lighting Made Easy
With their patented LED-retrofit method, the Danish company Fischer Lighting has made it easier and cheaper to integrate new, environmentally friendly LED-technology into old lighting solutions. When using the LED-retrofit method, a custom-made unit ...
Tejidos Royo - Fabrics with values
The main sustainability example of Tejidos Royo is Recycled Denim Process with Hilaturas Ferre. Tejidos Royo has products with sustainable fibers: Lyocell, Hemp, recycled cotton and polyester and works with new fiber generation Refibra based on cotto...
BILA – award winning production optimisation
BILA is a Danish company that supplies robotic solutions to industrial companies looking to optimize their production. Leasing out (also referred to as product-as-a-service) and buy-back of used robots is an integrated part of BILA. Right now, leasin...
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...
Quality Circular Polymers; an innovative solution to provide secondary materials
QCP was founded in April 2014 of which SUEZ is a partner. QCP is located in Chemelot industrial park in Sittard-Geleen (Netherlands), a strategic location in terms of polymers research, development and production of Polymers. At the heart of Western ...
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...
Enel Group’s sustainable dismantling and demolition approach for FOIX power pl...
FOIX was a Thermal Power Plant consisting of 1×520 MW unit, operating until 2010. In 2015, the Spanish Government authorized its closure and ordered the dismantling and demolition of the plant. This process, where the value of materials and resource...
Clariant's sunliquid process for converting agricultural residues into climate-f...
The sunliquid® process developed by Clariant meets all the requirements of a technically and economically efficient, innovative process for converting agricultural residues into climate-friendly advanced biofuel. Using process-integrated enzyme prod...
Telefonica's eco rating for mobile devices
Eco Rating is a “label” that assesses the environmental impact of the whole life cycle (process of production, use and disposal) of mobile devices. The Eco-rating system promotes responsible consumption by providing information to customers about...
Waste uptake by the EU cement industry: Challenges and opportunities
The EU cement industry supports the promotion of industrial symbiosis and the recognition of energy recovery as a waste management solution for non-recyclable waste. The use of waste materials in the cement industry as raw material or as a source of ...
COSMOTE provides refurbished equipment
OTE Group is the largest telecommunications provider in the Greek market, and, together with its subsidiaries, forms one of the leading telecom groups in South-Eastern Europe. Aimed at continuously optimising customer experience, OTE Group proceeded ...
ArcelorMittal's Histar® Steel from 100% locally sourced steel scrap
ArcelorMittal has developed a new range of advanced high strength quality steels “Histar®”. These quality steels are available as rolled structural shapes (H-profiles) for use in building framing, bridges and for general structural purpose. This...
Sidenor´s Zero Refractory Wastes Strategy
The aim of the developed project was focused on the integrated and systematic management of all the refractory waste products that are generated at Sidenor Basauri Plant. Before the project was set up, only a fraction of this waste was recycled (appr...