Inaugurated in 2016, Mater-Biotech is the first world industrial plant for the production of 1.4 bio-butanediol (BDO) directly from sugars, paving the way for the production of new chemical intermediates from renewable sources. The plant was designed to reuse the by-products for its energy needs, thus optimizing the life cycle of the entire process.
An app which enables users to buy circular goods and services near them or online and provides reliable information on what exactly the circular economy means.
Ultra Thin White Topping is a road hardening innovation, applied to pilot projects in Frysland and Overijssel by Schagen Infra BV.
To replace damaged asphalt sustainably, the company renovated the degenerated road surface using a thin layer of cement with polyester fibres mixed in. This reduced resource consumption and enabled full material recovery at end of life.
Alisea has combined design with recycling to produce interesting corporate gifts. It offers beautiful, personalised items that include secondary raw materials such as paper, metal, textile or even graphite.
Prespaglia offers a product line of modular blocks of pressed straw for the construction sector. These insulating blocks are made of straw, clay and pozzolan lime, making them entirely recyclable and biodegradable.
KLIMIS has been using the woody part of Greek olive pits as heating fuel for its lime production since 1968. In 1992, it developed a patented process to recycle the residual material from this combustion into highly-efficient, low-emission barbecue briquettes.
Composting is the most natural method for creating fertilisers, but not many people use it as it's a slow and complex process.
To encourage composting, Compastor Technology has bred a genuine composting worm. When this worm is combined with a compost inoculant, green and organic waste is turned into fertiliser quickly and efficiently.
When Dublin's Ballymun suburb was scheduled for regeneration, a local environmental project redeveloped the neighbourhood's heating plant into a 3D textbook on repair, reuse and refurbish. The Rediscovery Centre, housed in the old boiler house, is now a cutting-edge creative space connecting people, resources and ideas that includes four social enterprises.
