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Henkel pioneers digital watermark technology with new Vernel product range
Henkel is one of more than 85 companies and organisations of the new cross-value chain initiative “HolyGrail 2.0”, launched by AIM, the European Brands Association. The goal of the initiative is to assess whether a pioneering digital technology c...
The ReCircle Recycling System
ReCircle is a system that allows for 100% closed-loop recycling of glass, PET & HDPE plastic containers, and steel and aluminium cans by guaranteeing zero contamination of used-materials, enabling households and offices etc to guarantee their u...
Caterpillar Energy Solutions' biogas generator sets support recycling management...
More than 2 megawatt (MW) of electrical power is produced by two MWM (Caterpillar brand) gas generator sets on Mallorca from treated biogas and are therefore essential components in the Mallorcan government’s fight against waste, which is now p...
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...
Close The Glass Loop - The European ambition to collect glass more and better, t...
‘Close the Glass Loop’ is an industry platform, initiated by FEVE -the EU federation of container glass producers- to unite the glass collection and recycling value chain, and to establish a material stewardship programme that will result in mo...
Versalis and Montello - New polyethylene grades made from recycled packaging
This project aims at producing a range of polyethylene products containing post-consumer plastics for a number of technical applications, including: thin packaging film, drip irrigation pipes, industrial bags and other types of packaging. To truly cl...
Seramco Project: Secondary raw materials for concrete precast products
Across the world, raw materials become a scarcer resource. In North-West Europe, the construction sector uses 50 % of all raw materials and produces one third of all waste in the region. Although 70 % of waste are recovered, only a low percentage und...
AFRA sustainable management and recycling of end-of-life aircraft and components
The Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA) is the leading global organisation for developing and promoting the safe and sustainable management of end-of-life aircraft and components. AFRA currently counts with 70 members who benefit from the eff...
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...
Aurubis’ and Grillo’s metal loop
The example is about a state-of-the-art cooperation between the two industrial companies Aurubis and Grillo for a traceable and uninterrupted circulation of copper, zinc and other valuable metals. As an expert in multi-metal recycling Aurubis helps t...
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...
VinylPlus®: the Voluntary Commitment to Sustainable Development by the European...
VinylPlus® is the renewed ten-year Voluntary Commitment to Sustainable Development by the European PVC industry. The commitment was developed through dialogue with stakeholders, including industry, NGOs, regulators, civil society, and PVC users. It ...
Henkel's detergent bottles from recycled high density polyethylene (HDPE)
For the first time, 60,000 bottles of the laundry detergent Perwoll Wool & Delicates were produced with recycled HDPE (high density polyethylene) sourced from packaging household waste in Germany. After a developmental period of two years, toge...
Total creates products with high post-consumer recycled content that match perfo...
Total has launched a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) “Circular Compound” range that contains high levels of post-consumer recyclates for household and industrial liquid applications. The new products perform equally in demanding applications to ...
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...
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 ...
Waste uptake by the EU cement industry: Challenges and opportunities
The EU cement industry supports the promotion of industrial symbiosis and the recognition of energy recovery as a waste management solution for non-recyclable waste. The use of waste materials in the cement industry as raw material or as a source of ...
ACCIONA's FISSAC project: Fostering Industrial Symbiosis for a Sustainable Resou...
The FISSAC project involves stakeholders at all levels of the construction and demolition value chain to develop a methodology, and software platform to facilitate information exchange. These can support industrial symbiosis networks and replicate pi...
HARRPA's Crude Tall Oil Biorefineries
Crude Tall Oil (CTO) is a renewable oily mixture of natural chemicals with valuable functional groups. CTO is obtained from coniferous wood as a by-product of forest industry’s pulping process, thus companies from forest and chemical industry w...
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 ...
EXCA's expanded clay with waste additives
Expanded clay is a well-proven, high quality, efficient and durable lightweight aggregate suitable for a wide range of applications in the construction sector. Expanded clay contains various-sized granules, each with a hard ceramic shell that surroun...