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...
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...
Polski Koncern's by-products for chemicals and refineries
ORLEN Group Companies located in Plock are involved in materials recovery and their further reprocessing in order to obtain valuable materials for other purposes. It increases the efficiency of processes, helps to protect natural resources, and reduc...
Kemira's industrial symbiosis in Sweden
Industry Park of Sweden (IPOS) is an industrial park owned and operated by Kemira in Helsingborg, Sweden. The business idea of IPOS is industrial symbiosis. In other words, by innovative resource co-operations create added value to reduce costs and e...
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...
Solvay's Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) reuse program
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) must be recovered and recycled Solvay Fluor offers a worldwide recycling service for SF6 in Bad Wimpfen (Germany) and in Onsan (South Korea). The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has recognised ...
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 ...
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...