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LIPOR is committed to transition from waste to resource management

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LIPOR - Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto, Portugal
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Portugal

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  • Waste reduction
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December 2018

LIPOR's Environmental Education and Intervention Program aims to create an educational offer that encourages citizens to implement good environmental practices and facilitates the acquisition of skills that support civic intervention and a sustainable development.

LIPOR intends to reach 90 000 people with its awareness campaign within its catchment area. This involves delivering about 10 direct environmental awareness actions to the community its environmental education technicians daily.

  • Food waste reduction
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December 2018

LIPOR’s annual prevention programme includes several projects and initiatives implemented across all  eight municipalities aiming to prevent and reduce food waste.

With the “Embrulha" (Pack It) project LIPOR wants to engage 50 restaurants in Porto Municipality and 10 restaurants in other LIPOR municipalities to recover 6 tonnes of food waste.

The "Dose Certa" (Right Portion) project aims to certify 46 food establishments in total.

  • Recycling (also including specific waste streams)
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December 2020

The Strategic Plan for Urban Waste 2020 (PERSU 2020) is the reference instrument of the urban waste policy in Portugal.

LIPOR has defined a target of 50 kg per inhabitant a year in 2020 for selective collection as a goal. Several projects that aim to increase multi-material and organic recovery figures are defined in LIPOR's strategic plan.

For landfills, the target is a maximum value of landfill of biodegradable waste deposition of 10%. 

  • Green public procurements
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December 2018

One public tender for catering services with fully sustainable and circular criteria.

Plan national de gestion des déchets et des ressources (PNGDR)

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https://environnement.public.lu/fr/offall-ressourcen/principes-gestion-dechets/P...

Luxembourg's National Waste and Resource Management Plan

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Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Publication Date: 
06/2018
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Luxembourg

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Paul Rasqué
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Luxembourg's new National Waste and Resource Management Plan includes measures and guidelines for the implementation of the amended Waste Management Act of March 21, 2012. It analyzes the situation regarding waste management and lists measures that will be taken to ensure the re-use, recycling, recovery and disposal of waste in the most environmentally friendly conditions while remaining in line with the national and European legislative context. The prevention program is integrated in the text of the national plan and introduces a whole-system approach for waste prevention.

The overall objective of the NWRMP is to protect the environment, cultural property and human health by preventing and reducing the harmful effects of waste. In addition, waste management has long-term goals, including conservation of resources, climate protection and impacts for future generations.

This plan represents a considerable step in the transition towards a circular economy, and builds on the principles of a sober and responsible consumption of natural resources, the optimisation of product life cycles, opportunities for re-use or failing that, waste recycling.

The NWRMP, among others, includes the following ambitious targets for 2022:

  • reducing food waste by 50%;
  • 65% collection rate of electric and electronic waste;
  • less than 10% of all municipal waste going to landfill.

The plan was also drafted in consultation with stakeholders and citizens over a 3-year period. This included thematic workshops on municipal waste, food waste, construction & demolition waste and treatment plant waste. The plan also received input through the May 2017 'National Waste Day' and further public consultations in Spring 2018. Its implementation willl be overseen by the Ministry for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure's environmental agency for the period 2018 - 2022.

https://www.placo.fr/Services/Le-service-recyclage-Placo-R/Filiere-de-recyclage-...

The Saint-Gobain Gypsum Activity at the head of Circular Economy

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Saint-Gobain Gyproc
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France

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Taking advantage of the eternal recyclability of Gypsum, Saint-Gobain's gypsum subsidiary already launched a voluntary and ambitious policy in 2000 to encourage the recycling of pre- and post-consumer gypsum waste.

https://www.isover.fr/connaitre-isover/actualites/isover-recycling-la-nouvelle-o...

Saint-Gobain's ISOVER is a pioneer in recycling glass wool

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Saint-Gobain ISOVER
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France

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Glass wool is infinitely and completely recyclable. Regardless of the glass wool’s quality, age, density or other properties, the material is entirely recyclable and can be re-melted as many times as necessary, before entering into the composition of new insulating products, without having its final quality impacted.

http://www.water2return.eu

Water2REturn turns wastewater into added-value agricultural products

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BIOAZUL S.L.
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Spain

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Water2REturn is an Innovation Action co-funded by the European Commission under its Horizon 2020 (H2020) programme.

http://www.symbiosis.dk/en/

Kalundborg Symbiosis: six decades of a circular approach to production

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Kalundborg Symbiosis
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Denmark

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Kalundborg Symbiosis is a partnership between nine public and private companies in Kalundborg, Denmark.

Cleanteach-Cluster Upper Austria

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Austria

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Circular Economy Innovation Upper Austria
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Cleantech-Cluster Upper Austria
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David Schönmayr
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The Upper Autrian Cleantech-Cluster networks all actors from the resource supplier, to the manufacturer, industrial researcher, to mechanical engineers, recyclers, and disposers in order to find joint solutions and develop new technologies. We cooperate with our 10 cluster initiatives in the Upper Austrian business support agency and 2000 partner companies, whose activities range from plastics, to automotive, furniture and wood construction, food, medical technology, mechatronics, IT, logistics, and HR, In order to support projects for SMEs in particular, the cluster also supports EU funding applications, thus offering its partners an internationally mature circular economy toolbox.

THEMES and EXPERTISE in the network:

  • Material efficiency in production
  • Recycling
  • Recovery
  • Disposal
  • Circular design
  • Business Models
  • Initial and continuing education
  • Research

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  • Cross-sector networking with researchers, companies, associations (regional, national, international)
  • Project development
  • Project Management
  • Process support through conception, moderation of workshops, work meetings, events
  • Funding advice

Moving in circles: Logistics as key enabler for a circular economy

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Moving in circles: Logistics as key enabler for a circular economy

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Fraunhofer-Institute for Material Flow and Logistics
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Verena Fennemann, Christian Hohaus, Jan-Philip Kopka
Publication Date: 
07/2018
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Germany

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The principle of Circular Economy is to keep raw materials within the economic cycle as long as possible while generating the lowest possible amount of waste and emission. To do so, end-of-life products and materials must be kept at the highest possible level of value creation according to their original use. Adapted logistical concepts to coordinate both material and information flows - in addition to innovative business models and new approaches to product design for recycling - are necessary to realise circularity in the economy.

The megatrend of digitalisation, especially through Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things, offers solutions that have not yet been applied extensively. Possible disadvantages of rebound effects due to Circular Economy and increased demand for resources caused by the deployment of digital technologies must also be taken into consideration. Due to its strong integration into the processes of production, there is scope for digitised management of resource and waste logistics to make a substantial contribution to a sustainable economy. 

The white paper discusses the various dimension of logistics that support the Circular Economy transition by reflecting upon the following trends: atomisation of shipments, information logistics and data sovereignty, new manufacturing technologies, autonomous systems in Industry 4.0 and Social Networked Industry. Uses cases are developed for each of these trends, whose respective impacts on respectively producers, consumers, recycling businesses and the environment are also analysed.

Further scenario analysis for both a gradual and radical transition to Circular Economy shows the differing impact these trends might have in varying intensity on manufacturing, logistics and recycling. The white paper concludes that logistics is crucial in all levels of the transition to a circular economy, as it forms the core of transporting goods, transferring information in self-organising supply chain networks and developing new business models. 

Circular Economy BXL 2018 AGM
24 Oct 2018
BeCircular annual meeting 2018
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Brussels
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Belgium

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Bruxelles Environnement

Brussels Environment invites you to the #beCircular Annual Meeting 2018 of the Regional Programme in Circular Economy: "Brussels, pioneer Region in circular economy": an opportunity to meet key players, discuss the most relevant issues and draw inspiration from Brussels' initiatives in circular economy.

http://upcyclecity.almere.nl/en/

UpCycle City contest - City of Almere

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City of Almere

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Netherlands

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The municipality of Almere aspires to become a waste-free and energy-neutral city by 2022. The administration wants to bring the business community and knowledge institutes’ innovative power together to enable co-creation in the field of waste management and upcycling in the urban context.

http://document.environnement.brussels/opac_css/elecfile/PROG_160308_PREC_DEF_FR

Brussels Regional Programme for Circular Economy

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Brussels-Capital Region
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03/2016
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Belgium

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Joana Cruz
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Catherine Vanderstichelen
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The Brussels Regional Programme for Circular Economy (BRPCE) is an integrated strategy involving 111 measures aimed at delivering circular patterns at the city level. The main objectives of the BPRCE are:

  • to transform environmental objectives into economic opportunities
  • to anchor economic activities within Brussels’ borders, maximising resource circularity and boosting entrepreneurship, and
  • to create new employment opportunities.
https://www.lwarb.gov.uk/what-we-do/circular-london/circular-economy-route-map/

London Waste and Recycling is delivering on the circular economy with stakeholder buy-in

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London Waste and Recycling Board

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United Kingdom

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London is among one the world’s most cosmopolitan and oldest cities, and one of the most cosmopolitan. As Britain’s largest city and country’s economic, transportation and cultural capital, over 8 million people live in London. A more flexible and sustainable approach to products, housing, office space and critical infrastructure is crucial to London’s ability to adapt and grow.

Environment Ireland 2018
04 Oct 2018
Environment Ireland® 2018
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Dublin
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Ireland

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Environment Ireland®

Environment Ireland® is Ireland’s major environmental policy and management conference. Organised in association with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, the conference is now in its 14th year and will feature a roundtable on Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy.

Symposium of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Anthropogenic Resources
19 Sep 2018
International Symposium on 'Science to support Circular Economy'
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Vienna
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Austria

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Technical University Vienna, CEC4Europe

The EU Circular Economy Package and its implementation will be key issues during the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2018.

Prior to the EU Circular Economy Conference, research findings as to what extend a circular economy can actually contribute to a more sustainable use of resources will be presented at the scientific symposium which will be co-hosted by the Vienna University of Technology, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Anthropogenic Resources and CEC4Europe on September 19th 2018.

http://www.eurocities.eu/eurocities/documents/Full-Circle-cities-and-the-circula...

From waste to resources: Genoa looks ahead to a circular economy

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City of Genoa

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Italy

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Genoa set itself an objective to close the loop on waste materials by taking advantage of treatment plants in the city's immediate vicinity. By adopting a long-term and territorially integrated approach, the city intends to achieve higher recycling rates within five years and strengthen the circular economy locally.

http://www.eurocities.eu/eurocities/documents/Full-Circle-cities-and-the-circula...

Industrial territorial ecology improves energy efficiency for the Port of Strasbourg

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Eurométropole of Strasbourg

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France

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With half a million inhabitants, the ‘Eurométropole’ of Strasbourg is a collection of 33 municipalities and represents a centre of activity in the east of France. Deeply committed to energy transition, the Eurométropole adopted a climate plan in 2009 aimed at energy savings, the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and the development of renewable energies.

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