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...
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...
Project VALOR - Valorisation Alternatives to Landfill for Organic Residues
The VALOR project is a partnership between Dublin City University and the waste management industry that aims to investigate higher value options for the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) and formulate strategies to minimise its dispo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Zeme's scrap aluminium conversion into sustainable high value Eco alloy ingots
Recycling of scrap aluminium provides a valuable resource and prevents the material from being diverted to landfill. The Zeme system will be utilised to produce specialised high quality aluminium alloy ingots which will be available for re-use wit...
How Re-manufacturing creates jobs in Europe. A success story.
An empty laser cartridge is made of around 80% plastic, which can be fully re-manufactured and recycled once it has been collected by individual collective schemes. An empty cartridge gets a new life and is re-manufactured in the same line by the sa...
Social entrepreneurship and circular textiles by Humana Nova Cakovec
We are collecting used clothes and textile waste which we use in production of our fashion line “ReDesign”. Used clothes is mostly collected in north-west Croatia. It is sorted in Humana Nova premises based on the following categories:Clean and...
GoOpti Dynamic Shuttle Platform - Long distance transportation as a service
GoOpti is an innovative European transportation platform, which provides shared and private airport transfers at affordable prices and connects passengers traveling from medium-size cities to large airports. It provides an on-demand mobility system...
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, ...
Aluminium recycling in the window and curtain walling industry
The A|U|F Association is a non-profit organisation active in Germany whose aim is to promote the closed-loop recycling of Aluminium profiles used in buildings, thus contributing to the saving of primary resources and, consequently, in reducing th...
Fertikal - organic and organo-mineral fertilizers
Fertikal is a manufacturer of organic and organo-mineral NPK fertilizers worldwide. Based in the port of Antwerp (Belgium), it collects recycled secondary materials from a maximal distance of 150 km to give them a new life as a fertilizer. These mat...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Envotherm's wastewater recycling
We develop and produce water treatment systems that recycle wastewater, focusing on environment, economy and quality. Envotherm has units that can clean waste water from 50 l/h to 10 m3/h. We have made customised units for different sectors. We can ...
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...
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...
Renault's remanufacturing of spare parts
Renault’s plant in Choisy-Le-Roi deploys its activities in the area of the remanufacturing of used spare parts. Each year, it remanufactures around 15,000 engines, 20,000 gear boxes and 18,000 injection systems. After having been collected in Renau...
Mtm plastics' recycling strategy
Plastics recycling is an example of a promising entry point into functioning circular economy. In view of a growing shortage of resources and pressing environmental problems, plastics recycling can offer a market-based solution. Initiated by legal re...
Metsä Group's Fresh Fibre Enables Fibre Circulation
The role of fresh forest fibre in circular economy and recycling loop. The key idea of circular economy is to use materials as efficiently as possible and more than once. In Europe, fibre-based packaging is one of the most efficiently recovered and r...
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...
North Sea Resources Roundabout: Creating a Market for Secondary Raw Materials
The transition towards a circular economy gives us an opportunity to reinvent our economy and create new competitive advantages for Europe on a sustainable basis. Entrepreneurship and innovation are essential to enable this transition. Action and new...
HP's recycled ink cartridges
Hewlett-Packard Company’s earliest closed loop recycling activities began with creating HP toner cartridges with plastic recycled from the HP Planet Partners program in 2000. Leadership with closed loop plastics recycling expanded in 2005 when the ...
Fiskeby's fully recycled chipboard
Fiskeby Board AB is a company that produces White Lined Chipboard from 100 % recycled fibers. The production is based on three circular loops of material and energy recovery:Loop 1: Fibers are recycled from consumer and post industrial waste and ne...
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...
Borealis' off-spec polymers reuse program
Off-spec polymer is polymer that doesn’t meet the specifications that Borealis aims for its clients. This off-spec polymer is a result of production interruptions and might appear as powder (polymerisation unit), pellets or globs (extrusion unit). ...
BillerudKorsnäs' tall oil and pitch oil from pulp mills
A by-product in the manufacture of kraft pulp is tall oil consisting of pitch substances. At BillerudKorsnäs and many other forest companies, this is sent to a chemical plant for extraction of different rosins before the residual (pitch oil) is retu...