Interface's carpet tiles are designed along circular lines, and their ReEntry® programme ensures that old tiles are reused, recycled or used for energy from waste.
Volpy was an all-in-one ethical and environmental innovation on the smartphone market: customers could have their smartphones valued, return them and exchange with others directly through an app.
Since 2011, Closing the Loop has been operating a successful waste compensation model. It has developed a unique approach in which customers pay to compensate for the marketing of new electronic devices. The fee is used to collect scrap mobile phones and batteries via Closing the Loop's long-term networks in Africa for responsible recycling in Europe.
The German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) is a central knowledge platform for sustainable building. It provides the world’s most advanced sustainable building certification system which makes circular economy aspects measurable and assessable.
The ecopixel® material is made of 100% Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) that melts at only 120°C, reducing the ecological impact during transformation. It can be re-melted an infinite number of times without altering its properties and produces a unique colour pattern.
The Solidarity Computers initiative aims to extend the useful life of IT equipment that no longer meets the requirements for use. This can be reused by employees for their personal use by buying it for a symbolic fee, or donated to NGOs or to other external entities.
Attero is a waste management company with a very strong circular focus: it collects waste and converts it into secondary raw materials and produces energy from waste.
Geocycle provides solutions for recycling raw materials as inputs for cement production.
During the cement-making process, they replace carbon-intensive traditional materials and fossil fuels with low-carbon equivalents, such as waste biomass, to reduce CO2 emissions.