The Ressourcerie Namuroise in Belgium provides collection and processing services for bulky household waste, while also helping people with scant marketable skills to break into the labour market. In 2017, the cooperative established a partnership with Namur's waste management authority, which enabled municipalities to outsource the collection of bulky items with a view to their reuse.

Eco Veneta specialises in the collection and recycling of waste from construction and demolition sites in the Italian provinces of Verona, Vicenza, Padova and Rovigo.

Vanden’s plastic recycling plant transforms plastic waste into commodities, ready to be manufactured into something useful again.

Ocean Cleanup has launched design sunglasses made from plastic removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

In 2017 JRK Waste management introduced an intelligent data system (ECONIT) to reduce the high quantities of mixed municipal waste in Czechia. The programme asks residents to scan their rubbish with QR codes. Information on the quantity and types of waste produced is then used by the local waste management agencies to improve collection and recycling rates.

The company Teemill produces t-shirts from organic cotton. They are designed to be sent back to the company when they are worn out.

Oryzite is a method for incorporating rice husks as a filler in all types of thermoplastics. The company transforms the rice husks into resin, which can then be used to obtain the same volume of injection-moulded plastic using much fewer fossil-fuel-based polymers.

EcoBirdy has come up with a way to recycle mixed plastics, and then uses the resulting material to make recyclable children's furniture.

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.

PURROT is a filter  that can mechanically separate organic matter and nutrients from liquid, without using chemicals.