With FarmacoAmico, CiboAmico and Cambia il Finale, the HERA has moved beyond its core business to actively prevent medicines, food and bulky goods from becoming waste.
GIDA is a wastewater treatment plant that helps meet the needs of the local textile industry by supplying water of sufficiently high quality, while keeping water consumption to a minimum.
Banca Regională Pentru Alimente Cluj (Cluj Regional Food Bank) collects food donated by producers, importers, distributors and retailers and redistributes it to NGOs in the counties of Cluj, Alba, Sibiu and Bistrița-Năsăud. Reducing waste and delivering positive social impact!
Kierrätyskeskus is a network of secondhand shops in the Helsinki area. As well as selling on donated items, they repair electrical goods and offer training sessions on the circular economy.
When Dublin's Ballymun suburb was scheduled for regeneration, a local environmental project redeveloped the neighbourhood's heating plant into a 3D textbook on repair, reuse and refurbish. The Rediscovery Centre, housed in the old boiler house, is now a cutting-edge creative space connecting people, resources and ideas that includes four social enterprises.
Examining the role of selective waste collection in a CE by focusing on two different waste streams (plastics and bio-waste) while also granting consideration to the future of highly selective collection streams.
Panel discussions around tools and methodologies to assess the impact of marine litter and to address the issue of circular economy and sustainable tourism in islands.
