Renting a vehicle rather than buying one is a circular-economy lever in mobility: it lets more users share the same asset, maximising the resources consumed.
A good digital rental management tool makes vehicle use even more efficient, minimising wasted resources and extending the vehicle's lifecycle.
FIXNOW is a smartphone repair company based in Belgium. Where technically feasible, they can replace the glass on the display rather than the entire display module.
Rice Tab is a technical board developed from rice husks, an agricultural byproduct widely available in Europe.
Designed for applications in architecture, interior design and furniture, it transforms what was once considered waste into a high-performance material with a new functional life in the built environment.
VA TechTrade buys back used laptops, tablets, phones and computers, refurbishes and quality-tests them to a verified working standard, and resells them with a warranty to customers across the EU.
Digital Product Passports are being rolled out and are key to keeping products and materials in circulation. However, they require interoperable, machine-readable data.
Verisav provides open RDF/OWL vocabularies for Digital Product Passports, as well as for returns and after-sales service and machine-readable warranties.
Digital Product Passports are designed to provide reliable product data supporting sustainability, circularity, value retention for re-use, remanufacturing and recycling.
This company is developing a software-as-a-service solution for EU SMEs, enabling them to produce DPPs quickly and easily.
Servicios Medioambientales de Valencia processes used mattresses into fractions for reuse. Their scalable model produces bales of polyurethane foam and steel which can be used as secondary raw materials.
i-Foria Italia has validated a technology for recycling nappies, incontinence aids and sanitary pads - products which have always been considered unrecyclable owing to the wide mix of materials in them. i-Foria's technology separates the components and returns them to the production loop.
