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RE-sign: today's cities, tomorrow's mines
RE-sign has marketed an app matching up supply and demand for reclaimed construction materials.
Using horse manure to power horse shows
Finnish energy company Fortum had developed a circular renewable energy service, dubbed HorsePower, that used recycled materials to provide a bedding management service for stable-owners, as well as using manure for energy.
ecoBirdy: Children’s furniture made from recycled plastic toys
EcoBirdy has come up with a way to recycle mixed plastics, and then uses the resulting material to make recyclable children's furniture.
Refind's Battery Refund machine: old batteries in, coupons for new batteries out
Coop Norway, Energizer and Swedish Refind Technologies have come up with a battery refund machine. People can drop off dead household batteries and walk away with coupons to put towards the price of new batteries.
Mater: chairs from spent brewery grain
In Denmark, the interior design company Mater has developed chairs made out of brewery waste. The production method uses plastic waste and the grain left over from beer production at the Danish brewery Carlsberg.
Fjällräven up-cycles wool as a by-product of the meat industry
Fjällräven is giving wool waste a second life by using it for innovative purposes, like padding in jackets or backplate in backpacks.
Herning and DFD do their bit to keep useable clothes in use
The partnership between Herning and DFD has led to a new circular business model for the work clothing used by the municipality’s technical operations department.