Stora Enso’s formed fiber: Designed for the circular bioeconomy
Stora Enso believes that while circularity is vital, renewable materials will need to replace fossil-based materials to create a circular bioeconomy. PureFiber is Stora Enso’s next generation formed fiber product that can be produced in almost any ...
Henkel's Perwoll bottles in Western Europe with 25% recycled plastic
Henkel’s packaging and supply chain team was able to integrate a significant share of recycled PE (25%) in the full range of Perwoll bottles in the Western European market – while at the same time retaining their unique color and ensuring high a...
GH Form Aps - Street and Park Equipment making the City Greener
GH Form is a family-owned iron foundry founded in 1918. GH Form’s goal is that 100% of the recycled materials they use to manufacture their cast iron become part of a reuse cycle. GH Form produces park and street equipment and furniture for the...
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...
PLASBLOCK - Solving the problem of mixed waste plastics and polymers on landfill...
We produce waste-based blocks for wood pallets; 100% made of polymer mixed waste and biomass waste. By using resources from landfills directly to logistics value chain, we provide a longer lifespan for wood pallets, as well as better shock absorption...
KLS PurePrint – Possibly the most sustainable printing company in the world
After many years of steadily declining sales of printed matter, KLS PurePrint chose to change their business model in a more sustainable direction in 2007. Inspired by the UN Sustainability Goals established in 2015, KLS PurePrint incorporated a circ...
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...
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...
Elysium Nordic’s pyrolysis process recycles 30,000 tons of end-of-life tyres
From 2021 Elysium Nordic will recover 9,000 tons of carbon black from 30,000 tons of end-of-life tyres, which will result in an annual CO2 reduction of up to 18,000 tons. Elysium Nordic uses pyrolysis when re-using the end-of-life tyres. In pyrolysis...
ECLUSE's W2E-powered steam network delivers reliable energy to chemical industry
ECLUSE will connect Indaver’s 1 million tonnes waste-to-energy plants in the Waasland Port/Antwerp Port (Belgium) to nearby industries. Instead of relying on gas-fired boilers to produce steam, these industries will use steam produced from the inci...
LDPE PCR foamed film with post-consumption recycled materia
The efficient use of materials and its reintroduction in the consumption system as new resources through recycling are two of the main pillars of the Circular Economy paradigm. Based on these pillars Ecoembes and The Dow Chemical Company have develop...
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...
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, ...
3M-Up-cycling: going beyond recycling
Perfluorinated polymers are materials with unique strength and durability. Although we are not always aware of it, they play a crucial role in many daily products and services: coating in pans and bakeware, building materials, automobiles, telecommun...
Fischer Lighting: Circular Lighting Made Easy
With their patented LED-retrofit method, the Danish company Fischer Lighting has made it easier and cheaper to integrate new, environmentally friendly LED-technology into old lighting solutions. When using the LED-retrofit method, a custom-made unit ...
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...
RE4 : would you live in a fully recycled house?
RE4 stands for “Reuse and recycling of CDW materials and structures in energy efficient prefabricated elements for building refurbishment and construction”. It is a 42-month collaborative research project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon...
Tejidos Royo - Fabrics with values
The main sustainability example of Tejidos Royo is Recycled Denim Process with Hilaturas Ferre. Tejidos Royo has products with sustainable fibers: Lyocell, Hemp, recycled cotton and polyester and works with new fiber generation Refibra based on cotto...
BILA – award winning production optimisation
BILA is a Danish company that supplies robotic solutions to industrial companies looking to optimize their production. Leasing out (also referred to as product-as-a-service) and buy-back of used robots is an integrated part of BILA. Right now, leasin...
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...
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...
Tripling a tyre’s lifetime through retreading with Michelin
Retreading is a remanufacturing process which aims at extending the lifespan of tyres, especially the biggest ones, such as truck tyres. By removing the worn tread band and replacing it with a new one, whilst keeping the same structure, retreading op...
Recover Upcycled Yarn System
Recover turns textile waste into new yarns for multiple life-cycles and produces the lowest impact textiles for apparel, accessory and home textile markets. The core added value is the offer of recycled cotton – the key ingredient of all company’...
Cradle to cradle - certified print products by Vögeli
Pureprint by Vögeli are offset printed products, designed to be biodegradable. On the basis of the Pureprint components, Vögeli PurePrint offers a wide range of offset printed products such as folders, brochures, notebooks, letter paper, business c...
Quality Circular Polymers; an innovative solution to provide secondary materials
QCP was founded in April 2014 of which SUEZ is a partner. QCP is located in Chemelot industrial park in Sittard-Geleen (Netherlands), a strategic location in terms of polymers research, development and production of Polymers. At the heart of Western ...
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...
Telefonica's eco rating for mobile devices
Eco Rating is a “label” that assesses the environmental impact of the whole life cycle (process of production, use and disposal) of mobile devices. The Eco-rating system promotes responsible consumption by providing information to customers about...
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 ...
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-...
Sidenor´s Zero Refractory Wastes Strategy
The aim of the developed project was focused on the integrated and systematic management of all the refractory waste products that are generated at Sidenor Basauri Plant. Before the project was set up, only a fraction of this waste was recycled (appr...