The city of Almere, working together with local stakeholders and the company Millvision, has developed an innovative circular economy partnership. 

The aquatic plant which grows in the lake is a local and renewable input for paper production. It is also circular since something that would otherwise be discarded as waste is used as a raw material.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority and the Municipality of Rotterdam worked with KWS Infra and Arizona Chemical to deploy recycled asphalt. The process utilised a "rejuvenator" using raw material extracted from pine tree by-products.