European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform

The PROMOFER project aims to produce circular biobased products for use in the agriculture, packaging and textiles sectors from low value, renewable feedstocks (specifically starches, whey permeate, industrial wastewater, rice straw, wheat straw and prune waste). They've just taken stock of progress to date!

On 27 January, Nordic Circular Hotspot and Natural State hosted a session which gave key insights from the Circular Build Forum, provided an overview of the Nordic Circular Construction project and launched the Nordic Community for Circular Construction. 

The recording of the session is now available!

RUNFASTER4EU is a new Horizon Europe Innovation Action which aims to show that it is possible to use unproductive, polluted or otherwise unused land to grow crops as feedstock for biobased products. This approach does not take land away from food or feed production while supporting the EU's bioeconomy. 

On 29 January, the Committee of the Regions hosted Municipal Waste Europe for a partnership event on textile waste, taking stock of the first year of mandatory separate collection of textile waste in the EU. 

Speakers discussed challenges on the supply and demand sides, along with the role of policy. Read all about it!

The ECESP website has a good selection of circular bioeconomy-themed content. We'll be shining a spotlight on some of it here!

This item looks at: converting orange waste into fabric