French industry discards a huge percentage of its production output. Maximum uses those valuable rejects to make standardised furniture, such as chairs, tables and benches.
Through advanced mechanical recycling, rPET InWaste makes food-grade recycled PET regranulate from PET flakes derived from post-consumer PET beverage bottles.
This process avoids downcycling of PET materials and means that food containers can be recycled in new food containers.
Bulgarian company Nord Holding has been collecting various waste streams for recycling since 1995. Since 2022, it has been developing its own recycling capacity for streams such as tyres and aluminium.
RetuRO was set up in November 2023 to administer the national Deposit Return System.
Customers pay a small deposit when they buy a soft or alcoholic drink included in the scheme, which they get back when they drop the packaging off at a reverse vending machine or the counter.
TEXTALE is an NGO co-funded by the EU which aims to make Lithuania's textile economy circular.
It promotes the prevention, reuse and innovative recycling of textile waste, helps organisations implement EPR schemes for textiles in the Baltic countries, and brings society and organisations together to create sustainable solutions.
This conference will focus on the European policies, technologies and business models that are reshaping circularity, from the Circular Economy Act and textile legislation to the Digital Product Passport and artificial intelligence.
