The German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) is a central knowledge platform for sustainable building. It provides the world’s most advanced sustainable building certification system which makes circular economy aspects measurable and assessable.
Attero is a waste management company with a very strong circular focus: it collects waste and converts it into secondary raw materials and produces energy from waste.
RCYCL is an on-demand service for the collection of bulky household and business waste, a sorting centre and network of recycling companies and social enterprises focusing on reuse, and a business which trains people and helps them break into the labour market.
This White Paper deals with the role of logistics in the Circular Economy as well as trends and developments in logistics which will enable the transformation of economy towards the Circular Economy.
Following the business model of a sustainable repair shop, R.U.S.Z is a social business which started in 1998 as a work integration social enterprise for long-term unemployed persons.
Aurubis, an expert in multi-metal recycling, and Grillo-Werke, which specialises in zinc and sulphur products, have set up a perfect closed loop for non ferrous trace elements.
Residual zinc from copper production is used by Grillo-Werke as a secondary raw material for zinc sulfate. Residues from this production - including copper, tin and lead - are then fed back to Aurubis.
