This European Commission Staff Working Document covers the carbon-efficient design, material supply, construction and operation of buildings. It considers the supply and demand for materials, energy and built space.
Europe generates considerable post-consumer textile waste (around 25kg per person in 2025), but the system captures and qualifies only a fraction for recycling.
This report, prepared by the Boston Consulting Group, finds that:
A viable European textile-to-textile system requires major investment but is not deemed to be profitable.
Enabling mechanisms coordinating the chain and sharing risk are needed to bridge the economics gap.
Textile-to-textile recycled fibres are a new product category answering a planetary need for circularity, but with structurally higher prcessing costs. Under current conditions, they will not be cost-competitive with existing recycled routes.
This workshop will gather input for the development of proposals for phosphorus reuse and recycling rates from sewage and give an update on phosphorus recovery.
Electric vehicles are rapidly transforming the transportation landscape. Circularity solutions, namely recycling and second-life applications, are central to addressing environmental impacts and securing access to valuable materials in electric vehicle batteries (EVBs).
Consolidating lessons learnt from the BATRAW project, this report identifies three key enabling conditions for scaling up circularity applications for EVBs in the EU: (i) effective implementation of the EU policy framework underpinned by the Batteries Regulation; (ii) strengthened financial support for scaling up battery circularity applications; and (iii) further harmonisation of the standardisation landscape impacting EVB circularity.
SUM 2026 will bring together leading international experts, researchers, practitioners and policymakers from various disciplinary backgrounds to explore the latest advancements and key challenges in the circular economy, sustainable resource management and urban mining.
The BATMASS project (EU circular BATtery valley for second life, recycling, and re-manufacturing of materials and black MASS) aims to revolutionise the battery value chain in Europe by creating a cross-regional ecosystem based on circular innovations.
On 17 March, it hosted a Forum exploring opportunities to scale up circular battery technologies and strengthen Europe’s battery value chain.
Cradle to Cradle®️ has always used detailed and verified information on material lifecycles and circular flows. What's changing now is how those data can be used by digital tools and artificial intelligence.
Find out why a trustworthy certification scheme is so important for users being steered by AI tools.
The eighth annual conference of the Italian Platform of Actors for the Circular Economy (ICESP) will be an opportunity to discuss good practices in the circular economy.
Learn about why they are important and how they can drive the circular transition!
Signify Circle makes lighting products which are resource‑efficient and circular. It factors ecodesign, product-as-a-service, remanufacturing and repair into its business model.
