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http://c-serveesproject.eu/

C-SERVEES: Activating Circular Services in the Electric and Electronic Sector

Overview of C-SERVEES project
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AIMPLAS - Plastics Technology Centre

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EU

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C-SERVEES is a European project that aims to boost a resource-efficient circular economy in the electrical and electronic (E&E) sector through the development, testing, validation and transfer of new circular economic business models based on systemic eco-innovative services that include:

  • eco-leasing of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE),
  • product customization,
  • improved management of waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE),
  • and ICT services to support the other eco-services.
http://www.life-eps-sure.com/en/

Overcoming challenges to recycle EPS fish boxes into new food-grade packaging

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CICLOPLAST

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Spain

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The LIFE EPS SURE project aims to offer a technically, environmentally and economically viable solution that allows EPS fish boxes to be collected, washed and converted into new PS food contact packaging, thus closing the loop.

http://www.aquaponiebxl.be

AquaponieBXL: wasteless urban farming, where food grows on water using nutrients from fish waste

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AquaponieBxl

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Belgium

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AquaponieBxl is introducing aquaponics across Brussels by building urban farms where vegetables grow on water using fish waste as fertiliser.

https://circul-r.com

Circul'R: Unlocking the circular economy's potential

circular economy consulting
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Circul'R

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France

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Circul'R is an international network of circular economy startups. Its mission is to unlock the circular economy's potential by connecting innovative startups with companies so that they can co-create solutions to accelerate their transition towards the circular economy.

http://www.genesisbiopartner.ro/

Turning waste into energy by co-generation using biomass

Genesis Biopartner - plant
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SC Genesis-Biotech SRL

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Romania

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Genesis Biopartner has built a plant for the co-generation of thermal energy (heat) and mechanical energy (electricity) from biogas in Romania.

http://www.caravanaecotic.ro/

The Ecotic Caravan - WEEE collection and awareness campaigns

Caravan - WEEE collection and awareness campaigns
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Ecotic

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Romania

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The educational project Ecotic Caravan co-financed by LIFE+, ran between 2014 and 2016 and aimed to raise awareness on environmental protection and sustainable development by focusing on efficient management of WEEE waste. The caravan travelled across Romania and was parked in the main squares so that the general public could easily interact. Workshops with school children were also organized. 

The caravan program reached over 20,000 persons and the school program more than 50,000 pupils, contributing to the collection of over 10 tons of WEEE.

http://www.green-group.ro/en/

Transforming waste into resources

Green Group: Resource the Waste
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Green Group Holding

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Romania

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Green Group Holding: integrated waste management solutions for six main waste streams associated with households and SMEs (WEEE, plastics, PET, glass, lighting bulbs, cardboard) are now available in Romania as a pioneer development for South Eastern Europe via a private investment starting back in 2012.

Thanks to a public-private partnerhip, a nationwide network of over 200 mobile and fixed collection points in 36 Romanian counties has already been implemented.

https://www.atelier-extramuros.com/single-post/2018/01/12/D%25C3%25A9couvrez-le-...

Chants Libres - a pilot project combining professional furniture upcycling and social enterprise

Creation of a pilot sector for the recovery and re-used of materials from household furniture waste.
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Extramuros

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France

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Atelier Extramuros is a social enterprise specialised in upcycling in the furniture sector, using reclaimed material from discarded professional furniture.

'Chants Libres' is a new pilot project aiming at improving recycled material sourcing - with the support of Valdelia - and designing protoypes for the professional furnishing sector. Two prototypes have been selected so far to launch a wider scale production process and are to be integrated in the Kinnarps catalogue for commercialisation.

http://useofcement.cembureau.eu/2018/09/20/circular-cement-processing-waste-to-c...

Circular cement: processing waste to create cement in a circular economy

Cement production plant (illustration)
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CEMBUREAU - The European Cement Association
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Every year, 2.5 billion tonnes of waste is produced in Europe. Thanks to its production process, the cement industry is able to use waste both as a fuel source and for secondary mineral materials.

https://48ertandler.wien.gv.at/site/

The 48er-Tandler Re-use Shop – A Waste Prevention and Re-use Initiative of the City of Vienna

48er-Tandler
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City of Vienna – Municipal Department 48 – Waste Management, Street Cleaning and Vehicle Fleet

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Austria

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Vienna's Municipal Department 48, responsible for the city's waste management, has been active in re-use since 1989, when the city’s first re-use shop was founded. In Summer 2015, the Department opened the 48-er Tandler: a mobile re-use shop where citizens can buy affordable, quality second-hand goods and whose proceeds go entirely to charity. 

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