Vorarlberg's annual Environmental Festival is designed to produce as little waste as possible, to promote reuse and generally to familiarise people with the concepts of the circular economy without preaching about it.
People come for the festival experience but leave having learned why it's a good thing to donate what you don't need and not to produce extravagant amounts of waste!
The SUSTRACK Toolkit was developed under the Horizon Europe project SUSTRACK.
It provides practical tools, policy briefs, case studies and guidance to help policymakers, businesses and researchers accelerate the transition to a circular and sustainable bio-based economy.
Energy services provider Techem has set up a Re-Use Centre promoting a circular, resource-efficient approach to equipment management in the building sector.
Decommissioned metering devices are brought to a centralised facility, evaluated and directed towards refurbishment by manufacturers, reuse of functional devices or components, or recycling of non-reusable materials.
Digital Product Passports are being rolled out and are key to keeping products and materials in circulation. However, they require interoperable, machine-readable data.
Verisav provides open RDF/OWL vocabularies for Digital Product Passports, as well as for returns and after-sales service and machine-readable warranties.
APARO is building an operational software infrastructure for textile circularity.
It is starting with the physical processes where circularity actually happens: collection, sorting, material movements, quality assessment, traceability and downstream flows.
The Erasmus+ project SocialECOnomy has produced a circular business model toolkit designed for social economy entities. It helps social enterprises transition their operations to circular processes step by step.
Berlin's Zero Waste Agency aims to make Berlin a zero-waste capital. As well as providing useful information via its website, it organises Zero Waste Action Weeks each year and brings together stakeholders in working groups and general meetings.
