The Super Circular Estate project addresses the challenge of changing housing needs. The Parkstad Limburg region’s population, is estimated to shrink by 27% in the next 30 years, calling for a radical reorientation in housing facilities. The project aims at demolishing vacant outdated high-rise apartment buildings, and reuse their components to establish new social housing units.
Ecoplasteam has created a new plastic material - EcoAllene™ - integrally recycled, this material contains two of the three layers - paper, polyethylene and aluminium - of "tetrapak" packaging.
Tarkett is a global leader in innovative flooring and sports surface solutions. It operates a take-back Restart® programme to collect flooring, which is then sorted and selected as a source of raw materials for use in its production process.
On the 24th of May, C&A Foundation, together with Ecopreneur.EU hosted a Circular Fashion Policy Lab in Brussels at the European Economic and Social Committee in the context of the Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform. The purpose of the event was to bring together representatives from across the fashion industry to discuss key policy measures to make a meaningful impact for a green economy.
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.
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.
The BAMB project was an innovation action within the EU-funded Horizon 2020 programme.
BAMB promoted a systemic shift where dynamically and flexibly designed buildings could be incorporated into a circular economy. Through design and circular value chains, materials in buildings keep their value – in a sector producing less waste and using less virgin resources.
