France
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...
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...
L’Indispensac - Customizable tote bag made in France
Les Tissages De Charlieu is a weaving company that has developed the “Indispensac” products which are customized tote bags, entirely made in France. They are weaved in the French Region Loire and are made with recycled yarns out of post-industria...
EMERAUDE BIO ENERGIE: the Biogas project
EMERAUDE BIO ENERGIE biogas project aims to combine a dense and competitive production area with the increase in environmental and energy challenges. The valorization of the manure for the production of renewable energy will help to keep a competitiv...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Suez' Comprehensive Waste Management in La Part-Dieu Shopping Mall
The La Part-Dieu shopping mall in Lyon is one of the largest and most dynamic shopping centres in Europe with 267 shops, restaurants and movie theatres, and over 34 million visitors each year. Built by Unibail-Rodamco, the centre integrates a compreh...
RENAULT’s closed-loop material recycling strategy
One of Renault’s targets in term of circular economy was to ensure the recycling of materials within the same branch (“closed loops”). The ICARRE95 project gave RENAULT (through its subsidiary Gaïa) the opportunity to develop new activitie...
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...
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...
SUEZ & Nexans' cables recycling (RECYCABLES)
Recycables is the top cables recycler in France. This joint-venture was created in 2008 between SUEZ & Nexans in order to collect, process and recover cables. Located in Noyelles Godault, it is a model of circular economy as the materials from th...
Suez' combined material and energy-from-Waste recovery
Vernéa is a model of environmental performance. A combined material and energy-from-waste recovery idea, it consists of a biological recovery centre and an energy recovery centre. The Vernéa site (63) handles the household and similar waste of Puy-...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...