The Makerspace Garage Association in Mostar has been active for a few years now. Having built up an impressive array of skills and modern technologies, the association decided to make what they do available to everyone in the city of Mostar. Result: the first Repair Café in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider Western Balkan region!

SUSBOARD is a new Horizon Europe Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Europe (CBE-JU) innovation project. It aims to develop a 100% bio-based, formaldehyde-free and cost-competitive adhesive for particleboard and medium-density fibreboard. The adhesive is manufactured using secondary biomass streams, and will greatly facilitate recycling and recovery.

Götafors School in Sweden has been awarded the BREEAM In-Use Outstanding certification, proving that modular construction can be used to make a modern, energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly school.

Located in Motala in southern Sweden, Site Zero can handle 200 000 tonnes of plastic packaging each year. Thanks to cutting-edge technology (fully automated process, real-time optimisation, artificial intelligence), it is able to recycle up to 12 types of plastic or waste. Find out more!

Find out about P2GreeN, a four-year Horizon Europe project developing, testing and adapting the use of human waste to produce safe, bio-based fertilizers for agriculture! 

What do consumers feel about upcycled food? Completing this FOODRUS survey by the University of Copenhagen takes only 5 to 7 minutes and will help design more sustainable food chains.

ASK - The Nordic Way is a Nordic region-based podcast exploring sustainability and circularity. Each episode tackles a different aspect: have a listen!

The BioICEP project aims to develop sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional petroleum-based plastics.

The project has used an innovative cascade process by applying and combining chemical and biological methods to turn fossil-based plastic waste into natural, biodegradable substitutes to be used in the packaging and pharma industries.
 

The students' call for Circular Economy Innovative Projects (Navarra Circular Economy Awards 2022) is open until 25 September 2022. It is geared to the textile and plastics sectors as well as food industries. The call seeks to identify vocational education and training final projects, final degree projects, Master's final projects, PhD theses or similar developed by students.

Once you start to think beyond material presents, there’s an incredible range of original, planet-saving gift ideas you could offer this winter.