Rewarding recycling with vouchers
Tropa Verde was set up in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in 2015, and seeks to encourage environmentally responsible behaviour. Its goal is to promote recycling by rewarding environmentally-friendly practices.
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Recycling polyurethane foam in pressurised containers
PU foam pressurised containers are used to fill gaps and to insulate and install window and door frames so as to make buildings airtight. OCF (one-component foam) producers have invested in a recycling company which recycles the metals in the packaging material, the reactive residual polyurethane prepolymer and the propellant.
Walki Circular Classroom: co-created learning material stimulates circular thinking at school
The Circular Classroom is a new educational platform for learning about the circular economy. This open platform provides secondary schools and upper secondary schools with new tools for discussing the circular economy within a curriculum that promotes phenomenon-based learning and integrated subjects.
Flustix - Labelling plastic goods to support responsible consumption
Flustix is a certification body for plastic-free and partially plastic-free products as well as goods made from recycled plastics. By making plastic reduction clearly visible for customers, the certification provides guidance and the opportunity to make a plastic-aware buying decision.
ShareWear showed 340,000 consumers fashion can be borrowed, not only bought
ShareWear, a part of the Swedish Democreativity initiative, was launched to inspire a sustainable way to be fashionable. A ready-to-share collection with Swedish fashion items allowed consumers to borrow unique clothing - but only if they shared it forward.
Renuevas: a Ecoembes-Danone collaboration to increase away-from-home recycling rates
The ReNueva project of Aguas Danone has been launched to develop its commitment to recycling and reusing plastics, with funding from the Danone Ecosystem Fund; a fund created by Danone at a global level. It aims at increasing recycling in the away-from-home market, while simultaneously training and creating jobs for disabled or socially excluded people.
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Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA AG)
Seamatter
European Aluminium
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CenBio - Enabling sustainable and cost-efficient bioenergy in Norway
CenBio - Bioenergy Innovation Centre is one of Norway’s Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research.
Toss it in the bin: anti-littering-initiative by Altstoff Recycling Austria
Founded in 2012‚ "Reinwerfen statt Wegwerfen" is a voluntary initiative of Austrian businesses, based on an agreement between Austrian social partners and the Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism to improve the ecological performance of packaging by creating public awareness, preventing and reducing littering and promoting the separate collection and recycling of packaging.
Traditional Christmas ham goes circular with the HamTrick campaign (Kinkkutemppu)
The Ham trick (kinkkutemppu in Finnish) is a consumer campaign organised in 2016 and 2017 in Finland during the Christmas period.
This cross-sectoral co-operation with Finnish companies and organisations aimed at bringing the concept of circular economy closer to consumers, advising about recycling and avoiding that the drains were choked by excess fat at Christmas.
From environmental nuisance to secondary raw material: coastal vegetal waste in composites industry
The main objective of SEA-MATTER is to demonstrate and validate the reuse of coastal algae and seaweed accumulations as raw materials in composites industry.
When it comes to recycling aluminium, Every Can Counts
The “Every Can Counts” programme aims to improve recycling by enabling and encouraging people to recycle drinks cans used outside the home (e.g. workplaces, festivals, tourist locations, etc.).
Relight - Collection, Recycling and WEEE Treatment
Accurate and timely collection of WEEE, high standards in the treatment thereof and effective recovery of materials from it.