Netherlands
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...
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...
ReBlend: Circular fabrics & fashion
ReBlend is a Dutch label for 100% recycled fabrics and fashion made from mainly post-consumer blended textile waste that otherwise would have been incinerated. We make new textiles in 4 steps:no longer wearable textiles are sorted by colour and mat...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Fairphone: The modular phone that’s built to last
Fairphone is bringing the circular economy to the electronic industry. We are social enterprise that produces a smartphone to inspire change in the electronics industry. We focus on creating impact in 4 different areas: fair materials, good working c...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Philips' circular vacuum cleaner
Performer Ultimate FC8955, our first vacuum cleaner in a closed loop recycling system. Old Philips vacuum cleaners are collected in western Europe and recycled by our partner Coolrec. Our partner Veolia mixes the plastics from the recycled vacuum cle...
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 ...
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...