Kierrätyskeskus is a network of secondhand shops in the Helsinki area. As well as selling on donated items, they repair electrical goods and offer training sessions on the circular economy.
WIPAG recycles post-industrial and post-consumer plastic waste from several industries with its main focus on automotive parts. Both composite separation and de-coating process allow for end products with excellent performances.
Tarkett is a global leader in innovative flooring and sports surface solutions. It operates a take-back Restart® programme to collect flooring, which is then sorted and selected as a source of raw materials for use in its production process.
Ecotrel collects and processes waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) across Luxembourg. End-of-life devices are reused or recycled, thereby complying with businesses' CSR requirements and upholding circular economy principles.
Van Hulley is a Dutch SME that upcycles worn-out shirts into boxershorts, employing disadvantaged women as seamstresses every year and training them to join the labour market more permanently.
300 billion cigarette stubs are casually chucked away every year. Given that a single stub can pollute up to 500 litres of water, that is quite the environmental problem.
MéGO! offers a pragmatic solution with a service for collecting, sorting and recycling cigarette stubs.
Renewcell's technology dissolves used cotton and other natural fibres into a new, biodegradable raw material: renewcell pulp. It can be turned into textile fibre, be fed into the textile production cycle and meet industry specifications. This is the link that has been missing from the cycle, and will enable the way fashion is produced and consumed to be transformed into a never-ending loop.
