Belgium
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...
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...
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...
Jeans to Jeans
In September 2017, HNST (pronounce as “honest”) had a collection campaign where people could drop off their old and unworn denims at more than 80 collecting points in Flanders (Belgium). In two weeks time, more than 6000 old pair of denims were c...
Fertikal - organic and organo-mineral fertilizers
Fertikal is a manufacturer of organic and organo-mineral NPK fertilizers worldwide. Based in the port of Antwerp (Belgium), it collects recycled secondary materials from a maximal distance of 150 km to give them a new life as a fertilizer. These mat...
STEELANOL's closed loop for steel process gases
From the gases produced in the steel mill furnaces, by catalytical processes or by fermentation with bacteria, high value hydrocarbon products can be produced. Some of these newly developed technologies, after more than 10 years of research and pilot...
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...
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...
EuroChem's nitrophosphate route to produce zero-waste fertilisers
Complex mineral fertilisers can be produced via various processes or production routes. An important production step is the conversion of the phosphor from the natural rock phosphate into a plant available form. One of the possible processes to do so...