Caterpillar Energy Solutions' biogas generator sets support recycling management...
More than 2 megawatt (MW) of electrical power is produced by two MWM (Caterpillar brand) gas generator sets on Mallorca from treated biogas and are therefore essential components in the Mallorcan government’s fight against waste, which is now p...
Electric arc furnace slag sand for heavy concrete pipe coating
AEIFOROS S.A. is an industrial by-products- and wastes- recycling company that offers solutions for the valorisation of those materials as secondary resources, raw materials and solid fuels for other industries according to the principles of circular...
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...
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...
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...
Touchpoint Oy: Sustainable workwear and closed loop service model
TouchPoint is a Finnish workwear company using eco-materials such as fabrics made from recycled raw materials, cutting waste or regenerated fibres and is utilizing surplus materials. TouchPoint offers full service model from design, managing the enti...
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...
Sympatex: Old workwear into functional recyclable fabrics
Sympatex is part of the French consortium FRIVEP© (Filière pour le Réemploi et Recyclage des Vêtements Professionnels) covering the entire recycling circle. The goal of the consortium is to recycle discarded workwear clothing into renewable funct...
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...
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) &...
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...
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...
Lopyanko's AGRY_GAYA’18 project for sustainable bio silk
The main purpose of the AGRY_GAYA’18 Project is to establish a circular innovative type industrial enterprise for organic silk /highly renewable resource/ with further utilization of waste products from primary production as high quality secondary ...
Veolia's solution to turn waste heat into energy in Braunschweig
Data centers – gigantic sites that host computer data and information systems for businesses and individuals in mainframes and servers – are big producers of so-called waste heat. This energy, from a site whose primary purpose is not heat...
Ecoplasteam's EcoAllene: a new 100% recyclable plastic product
Our activity is the recycling of composite packaging polyethylene – aluminium, commonly known as ”tetrapak”. After paper mills take off the paper layer, Ecoplasteam melts, with an innovative process, the two layers of polyethylene and aluminium...
DyeCoo's water-free and process-chemical free-dyeing technology for textiles
DyeCoo is the world’s first commercial supplier of water-free and process-chemical free-dyeing technology for textiles. Their CO2-based dyeing process makes textile dyeing clean, sustainable, efficient and profitable. DyeCoo based in Weesp in the N...
The virtuous recycling of End-of-Life Tyres by Ecopneus
Creating a circular economy is key to protect the environment and to make of sustainability a tool for development and for new qualified occupation, thanks to research and innovation. Ecopneus has always known that the real objective is the following...
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 ...
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...
Albemarle's long-lasting catalysts: cleaner fuels for the future
The oil refining industry uses hydroprocessing catalysts (HPC) to remove over 99% of contaminants, such as nitrogen and sulfur from fuel oils, contributing to cleaner and more efficient final use fuels. These catalysts typically contain valuable meta...
ECOTEC’s fully traceable, certified textile recyclates
At ECOTEC the production cycle is completely traceable, certified and made 100% in Italy, which uses production clippings coming from weaving or knitting companies or PET, to create new yarns. These remnants, which are pre-consumer are transformed in...
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...
Aurubis’ and Grillo’s metal loop
The example is about a state-of-the-art cooperation between the two industrial companies Aurubis and Grillo for a traceable and uninterrupted circulation of copper, zinc and other valuable metals. As an expert in multi-metal recycling Aurubis helps t...
3M-Up-cycling: going beyond recycling
Perfluorinated polymers are materials with unique strength and durability. Although we are not always aware of it, they play a crucial role in many daily products and services: coating in pans and bakeware, building materials, automobiles, telecommun...
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...
RE4 : would you live in a fully recycled house?
RE4 stands for “Reuse and recycling of CDW materials and structures in energy efficient prefabricated elements for building refurbishment and construction”. It is a 42-month collaborative research project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon...
Hydro's state-of-the-art aluminium scrap sorting plant
Hydro is a global aluminium company, with operations in most EU countries. Aluminium is used in a wide range of applications – in particular in packaging, transportation, construction and consumer products – and recycling plays a crucial part...
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 ...
Schijvens corporate recycled uniforms
Schijvens produces post-consumer corporate garment made of recycled yarns by combining 50% of recycled textile and 50% of recycled PET. Schijvens does so by collecting worn out uniforms and PET bottles later used in the process. To obtain the final f...
The world’s first commercial plant to capture CO2 from air
Climeworks along with the project partners KEZO, Gebrüder Meier and the Swiss Federal Office of Energy has commissioned the world’s first commercial plant to capture CO2 from air in Hinwil, Switzerland. The plant filters 900 tons of CO2 from the a...
NEWLIFE™ making the world a better place
NEWLIFE™ is a product created with an ambitious project developed by Sinterama and it is completely made from recycled, post-consumption, plastic bottles using a mechanical process. It is certified as 100% made in Italy, fully traceable and the...
Santanderina's Tencel Recycling Initiative
SANTANDERINA R/TURN offers a new range of textile products with low environmental impact. These products are made of recycled and sustainable materials such as Refibra, recycled polyester, Seaqual, and organic cotton with production processes that e...
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 ...
Orange Fiber
Orange Fiber is an Italian company that has patented and manufactures sustainable fabrics for fashion from citrus juice by-product. Following a collaboration with Politecnico di Milano University, the company has developed an innovative process that ...
We aRe SpinDye's Sustainable colouring of man-made fibers
In an industry desperately seeking change and sustainable innovation, We aRe SpinDye® (WRSD) offers the apparel and fashion industry an updated way of bringing colors to fabrics – we remove the conventional dirty and inefficient dyeing process...
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...
Reusing Textile Waste in Regeneracija
The core business of Regeneracija lies in recycling of textile waste from surrounding textile industries to produce insulation for construction and automotive industry, protective floor coverings, filtration, and furniture industry. The company colle...
Fighting plastic in the oceans - 100% recycled PET - Polyester yarns DIOLEN®ReC...
There are already functional business strategies to tackle plastic debris in the oceans and products which can minimize the impact of each plastic released in the seas. One of the examples in the textile industry are polyester filament yarns made out...
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...
Tripling a tyre’s lifetime through retreading with Michelin
Retreading is a remanufacturing process which aims at extending the lifespan of tyres, especially the biggest ones, such as truck tyres. By removing the worn tread band and replacing it with a new one, whilst keeping the same structure, retreading op...
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...
Multi-recycling in the steel industry
Permanent materials can be recycled several times (multi-recycling) and hence achieve an optimal saving of resources . A study by Technical University of Berlin, initiated by the Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl / Stahlinstitut VDEh, verifies this proper...
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...
Metsä Group's Industrial Symbiosis in the Forest Industry
An industrial ecosystem at Äänekoski, Finland concretizes the circular economy with valuable synergies. The industrial ecosystem in Äänekoski, Finland, generates added value by using wood-based and other resources wisely in cooperation with part...
Niaga®’s circular carpet manufacturing technology
In the EU, 1.6 million tonnes of carpets goes to waste every year. 60% of that ends of up in landfills, 37-39% is incinerated and 1-3% is recycled. The complexity of existing carpets, glued together with latex, has made it both technically difficult ...
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...
Re-Match: Bringing New Life to artificial Turf
As the first company in the world to do so, the Danish company Re-Match has developed a separation process which makes it possible to recycle 99 per cent of worn out artificial turf used in soccer pitches, golf courses, playgrounds etc. By using a pa...
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...
VICAT ECO-VALORISATION: VICAT’S global solutions for demolition waste
VICAT offers two types of examples in the circular economy:solutions for all types of waste around a cement plant in order to develop an industrial and economical local network. a global offer regarding deconstruction/demolition waste on a building...
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...
Metsä Group's Sidestreams Program in the Forest Industry
Metsä Group uses all raw materials as efficiently as possible. All materials do not end up in our end products but are industrial side streams. Industrial sidestreams are valuable raw materials that are efficiently used either by us or our business ...
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 ...
Renault and Suez' end-of-life vehicles treatment branch
In order to comply with the European regulatory framework regarding the treatment of end-of-life vehicles, Renault teamed up with Suez (specialist in the management & recycling of wastes worldwide) to create a competitive end-of-life vehicles tre...
Fortum Ekokem's Integrated Circular Economy village in Finland
A combination of waste sorting and recycling facilities which aims to increase the recycling and recovery rate of waste operates in Riihimäki, Finland. This unity is called the Circular Economy Village. It consists of a sorting facility of mixed was...
U.S. Steel Košice's reuse of by-products in steelmaking
U. S. Steel Košice, s.r.o. (USSK) is an integrated steel producer located in Eastern Slovakia, with production capacity of 4.5 million tons of steel per year. Steel has a fundamental place in the circular economy thanks to its inherent properties. S...
IKEA Polska's end-of-life product strategy
Circular IKEA Poland is the first circular economy program in IKEA Retail Poland, the company operating IKEA stores in the country. It was started in 2016 and hopes to close the loop on many crucial materials and encourage circularity in customers th...
CEMA's co-processing to turn cement waste into a resource
Turning waste into a resource is one key to a circular economy. The cement industry clearly applies this principle throughout their life cycle. The cement industry is able to use different type of waste (used tyres, sewage sludge, Refuse Derived Fuel...
Geocycle gives second life to C&DW through cement manufacturing
The cement industry, and LafargeHolcim under the Geocycle brand, has developed strong expertise in co-processing. This technology refers to the simultaneous recovery of energy and the recycling of mineral materials within one single industrial proces...
Strategic Minerals' Recycling of Abandoned Mining Waste
The Penouta Mine Project (Viana do Bolo, Orense, Spain) of Strategic Minerals Spain company expects to be a reference for sustainable mining, in which abandoned waste is valued and generates economic, environmental and social benefits under the frame...
EXCA's expanded clay with waste additives
Expanded clay is a well-proven, high quality, efficient and durable lightweight aggregate suitable for a wide range of applications in the construction sector. Expanded clay contains various-sized granules, each with a hard ceramic shell that surroun...
Covestro's reuse of CO2 in the plastics production
Covestro has developed an innovative technology that allows using CO2 as raw material for the production of chemical building blocks for high-quality plastics. The most widely known of the numerous possible applications for these building blocks, cal...
Caterpillar's remanufacturing of end-of-life components
Remanufacturing is an exchange business: Customers return their end-of-service-life component to the original manufacturer, and get a remanufactured component in exchange. These end-of-service-life components are called ‘cores‘, and can r...