High nutrient density BioPhosphate recovery for economical organic farming and a...
Phosphorus “P” is not replaceable. No P = no agriculture = no food. The only type of mineral that contains high concentrated phosphorus on this planet earth is the apatite mineral. It has two natural forms, the mined and non-renewable mineral pho...
Troldtekt A/S - Acoustic panels for a healthy indoor climate for the environment...
Since 1935 Troldtekt has been developing acoustic panels focusing on healthy and environmentally friendly indoor climate. The acoustic panels consist of certified red spruce from the forests in Jutland (Denmark) and cement from Aalborg Portland. All ...
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...
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...
Nudie Jeans Co: Jeans out of pre-owned jeans
In 2019, the Swedish denim brand Nudie Jeans Co launched a denim capsule collection called Rebirth. The collection, available since October, consists of over 3,500 pairs of jeans, 199 denim jackets and over 800 T-shirts. Collected post-consumer Nudie...
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...
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...
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...
Optimization of H2 Utilization
In its site in Estarreja, BONDALTI carried out a development project “Optimization of H2 Utilization” with a view to the total recovery of H2 generated in one of its production processes, reusing it as raw material in another production p...
Reusable ceramic tiles
REVICOMFORT is a porcelain stoneware flooring for interior areas, public or residential, removable and reusable, quick and easy to apply. It does not need glues, cement or specialized workmanship and can be used immediately after application. It is a...
Spinnova: Bio-based textile fibre
Spinnova is a fibre technology company, developing textile fibre directly out of biomaterials without harmful chemical processes or dissolving. The raw material of the fibre is pulp that is made of FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified wood or w...
From KLM uniforms to cabin interior carpet
When KLM Royal Dutch Airlines decided to launch a new uniform in 2010, a 90,000-kg pile of old uniforms arose. We launched an upcycling pilot project involving the conversion of old fabric into a new raw material for new products. Up to today, our di...
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 ...
BASF's chemical recycling of plastics
Since mechanical recycling is limited because of an increase of residues in the material in each cycle, a team across BASF has taken up this challenge and developed the ChemCycling project. With chemical recycling, fossil resources for chemical produ...
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...
Overprint: reuse, reduce and recycle by Rotoprint Sovrastampa srl
Annually, more than 23.750 km of packaging film are rendered obsolete unusable and destined for landfills. Obsolescence is due to consumer demand fluctuation, changes on legislation and human errors in artwork processing. Rotoprint Sovrastampa, based...
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...
Water2REturn (W2R) - REcovery and REcycling of nutrients TURNing wasteWATER into...
Water scarcity and resources recovery are global concerns. Sustainable solutions are needed to use water in the best possible way and to recover resources from going to waste. Slaughtering is a water-intensive industry, and the wastewater it generate...
Twence reuse of CO2 in sodium bicarbonate production
In this project Twence is demonstrating an innovative technology for re-using carbon dioxide (CO2) by capturing the CO2 from the flue gases of the waste to energy (WTE) plant and using it for the production of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) as a result ...
OPICON – Reuse of Sand and Manure for Biogas
OPICON is a subdivision of Stjernholm A/S, which delivers environmental engineering solutions for cleaning sandy manure at dairy farms in Denmark as well as the rest of Europe. OPICON has developed a sand washer process system for reusing the sand fo...
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...
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...
Johnson Controls's industrial compressors: resource efficiency opportunities acr...
Industrial compressors are very large energy-producing devices used in refrigeration, as well as heating and cooling by a wide range of industries including food production and petrochemicals. Waste leftover from the production process, replaced part...
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...
Recycling superalloys: ensuring sustainable production of high performing aircra...
Alloys, a mixture of elements with the characteristics of metal, are resistant materials that engineers are continually looking to develop into more advanced alloys or ‘superalloys’. An example of a superalloy is rhenium, which has unique propert...
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...
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 ...
Pure Waste Textiles’ fully recyclable clothes
Pure Waste Textiles manufactures completely recycled yarns, fabrics, clothing and accessories from the leftover material by the textile industry at its production plant in India, which is currently under construction. The company uses cutting waste f...
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...
Methanisation in France: circular economy making the best out of waste
This circular economy example deals with the production of biogas and biomethane at the Méthavalor plant in the Grand Est region, France. Biogas is a sustainable gas generated using different biodegradable materials and waste, through a fermentation...
UPCYCLING THE OCEANS by Ecoalf
Upcycling the Oceans project (UTO) by Ecoalf collects the trash that is destroying the oceans and turns it into top quality yarn to produce fabrics and products, thanks to the support of fishermen. As a result of this extraordinary project, Ecoalf ha...
Cornilleau Rackets from textile Armor lux fibers
The SOFTBAT racket is the concrete result of R & D work carried out for more than three years by a group of French industrialists in the innovative “Eco-Charges” project:Armor-Lux, a textile company that supplied the cotton / polyes...
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...
Total creates products with high post-consumer recycled content that match perfo...
Total has launched a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) “Circular Compound” range that contains high levels of post-consumer recyclates for household and industrial liquid applications. The new products perform equally in demanding applications to ...
Fluence's Italian cheese factory: ricotta and biogas champion
Latterie & Caseificio Moro S.r.l is a dairy and cheese factory in the northeast of Italy. The factory was established in 1978 for the production of award-winning Italian cheeses. In the mid nineties, the factory was renovated to increase producti...
From Waste to Product in the High-tech Sector - Intel
Along with Intel’s passion for innovation, our founders instilled a strong commitment to environmental responsibility. We continuously strive to improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and conserve resources throughout our operations. Intel ha...
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...
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...
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...
Total completes successful trials with post-consumer recycled polystyrene
Total has successfully completed an industrial-scale test run of a proprietary recycling process for polystyrene on a European PS production line following a series of pilot stage trials. Post-consumer scrap supplied by recycling companies was transf...
Covestro's RE-Salt initiative: Recycling of industrial salty process water
In many industrial processes, large amounts of waste water, containing highly diluted common table salt (5-10%) are released into rivers, becoming a burden to the ecosystem, especially in terms of drinking water production. On the other hand, salt (N...
Veolia's PET “Bottle-to-Bottle” Recycling Plant in Rostock
In Rostock, Veolia has developed a flake-based recycling method for PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles that allows direct reuse of the recycled material for new food packaging, e.g. a new beverage bottle. Every year in Rostock, Veolia converts ...
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...
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...
Jaguar Land Rover - Novelis' recycled aluminium cars (REALCAR)
Circular Economy project REALCAR (REcycled ALuminium CAR) launched in 2008 as a £2m research project to identify ways of increasing the amount of recycled aluminium in our vehicle body architectures. Our target was to identify opportunities to utili...
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...
SAICA-Auchan’s reuse of cardboard, polyethylene and inert waste
For many years, Saica and Auchan have worked together on an innovative co-working project that has allowed the reintroduction of recycled materials that until now were sent to landfills. The key to success has been to achieve a better segregation in ...
ACCIONA's FISSAC project: Fostering Industrial Symbiosis for a Sustainable Resou...
The FISSAC project involves stakeholders at all levels of the construction and demolition value chain to develop a methodology, and software platform to facilitate information exchange. These can support industrial symbiosis networks and replicate pi...
Dafecor’s recycling and reuse of industrial textiles
Dafecor is one of the few companies utilising textile waste on an industrial scale in Finland. Dafecor acts as a partner to several parties. It takes the leftover materials from textile production and waste textiles from the public sector, laundries ...
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 ...
Nestlé's recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging
Nestlé is committed to improving the environmental performance of packaging: Nestlé is committed to continuously improving the environmental performance of its packaging. Nestlé Waters has saved more than 22,000 tons of PET worldwide within the la...
Tarkett's zero waste program from flooring material
Since 2010, Tarkett has been engaged towards developing Circular business models and applies Cradle to Cradle® principles. This means that products are designed to be recyclable, made from green or non-harmful chemicals, all materials are assessed b...
LafargeHolcim recycles C&DW into new sustainable building materials
In the framework of European targets for recycling of Construction and Demolition Waste (70% by 2020), preservation of natural resources, increasing of sustainability weight in construction projects and urbanisation development, LafargeHolcim is comm...
Yara's recovery and reuse of nitrogen from municipal waste water
The recovery and reuse of nutrients (RRN) from various waste streams is a major focus area of the ambitious EU Circular Economy Package. In a circular economy approach, recovered materials are injected back into the economy as “secondary raw ma...
Yara's WARMCO2: Spearheading industrial-horticultural symbiosis based on residua...
Intensive greenhouse horticulture is a key pillar of the agricultural economy of the Netherlands. Dutch greenhouses are worldwide recognized for their high-tech innovation, resource-efficiency, and year-round supply of assorted premium horticultural ...
Suez Ecopôle's Eco-Hub for Waste Collection
Thanks to a EUR 10 million investment by SUEZ, a new eco-hub has been created in Chartres de Bretagne to recover waste produced by businesses and local authorities. On a site covering 5 hectares previously used by the Peugeot Citroën Group, the new ...
Volvo's Life Cycle Analysis
By using our resources efficiently, we minimize the environmental impact of our operations. In 2011, we started with our energy approach based upon the ISO 50001 standard. Between Volvo and a neighbouring company (Stora Enso), a heating net was insta...