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https://www.diageo.com/en/society-2030/

Spirit of Progress 2030: Diageo's action plan to help create a more inclusive and sustainable world

Diageo
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Diageo
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Other (Global)

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  • Other (Sustainable management of water)
To be achieved by: 
November 2030

Reduce water use in Diageo's operations with a 40% improvement in water use efficiency in water stressed areas and 30% improvement across the company.

  • Other (Sustainable management of water)
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November 2030

Replenish more water than Diageo uses for their operations for all their sites in water-stressed areas by 2026.

  • Other (Sustainable management of water)
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November 2030

Invest in 150 projects to improve access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in communities near Diageo sites and local sourcing areas in all of Diageo's water-stressed markets.

  • Other (Sustainable management of water)
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October 2021

Engage in collective action in all of their Priority Water Basins to improve water accessibility, availability and quality and contribute to a net positive water impact.

  • Recycling (also including specific waste streams)
To be achieved by: 
November 2030

Achieve zero waste in Diageo's direct operations and zero waste to landfill in Diageo's supply chain.

  • Recycled materials as part of raw materials demand (recycled content)
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November 2030

Ensure 100% of Diageo's packaging is widely recyclable (or reusable/compostable).

  • Recycled materials as part of raw materials demand (recycled content)
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November 2030

Continue to reduce packaging and increase recycled content in Diageo's packaging (delivering a 10% reduction in packaging weight + increasing the % recycled content of the packaging to 60%).

  • Recycled materials as part of raw materials demand (recycled content)
To be achieved by: 
November 2030

Ensure 100% of Diageo's plastics are designed to be widely recyclable (or reusable/compostable) by 2025 and achieve 40% recycled content in Diageo's plastic bottles by 2025, and 100% by 2030.

  • Other (Sustainable agriculture management)
To be achieved by: 
November 2030

Provide all of Diageo's local sourcing communities with agricultural skills and resources, building economic and environmental resilience (supporting 150,000 smallholder farmers).

  • Other (Sustainable agriculture management)
To be achieved by: 
November 2030

Develop regenerative agriculture pilot programmes in 5 key sourcing landscapes.

  • Other (Accelerate to a low carbon world)
To be achieved by: 
November 2030

Become Net Zero carbon in Diageo's direct operations.

  • Other (Accelerate to a low carbon world)
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November 2030

Reduce Diageo's value chain carbon emissions by 50%.

  • Other (Accelerate to a low carbon world)
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November 2030

Use 100% renewable electricity across all of Diageo's direct operations.

Inscriptions - Lancement de la publication « Les partenariats, socle de l’économie circulaire »
29 Jun 2021
Lancement de la publication «Les partenariats, socle de l’économie circulaire»

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Paris
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France

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Entreprises pour l'Environnement (EpE)

Lors d’un colloque organisé à l’ESCP, le 29 juin en présence de Florent Menegaux, président de Michelin, l’association française Entreprises pour l’Environnement (EpE) dévoile le fruit de trois ans de réflexion de sa commission «Ressources Naturelles» sur l’économie circulaire. Illustrée de 27 démarches concrètes mise à bien par des entreprises, la publication insiste sur l’importance des partenariats, décrit leurs principaux objectifs et, en collaboration avec la Chaire Economie Circulaire de ESCP-Deloitte, propose une analyse de la diversité des principaux modèles de gouvernance observés.

https://www.livingcircular.veolia.com/en/industry/insulating-material-made-recyc...

Veolia and Knauf: transforming glass waste into mineral wool

Veolia logo
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Veolia and Knauf

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France, United Kingdom

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Veolia and Knauf have established a partnership to collect, process and transform waste glass into mineral wool for use as an insultating material.

The EU Ecolabel for hard covering products

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https://ec.europa.eu/environment/ecolabel/documents/EU%20Ecolabel%20Hard%20cover...

The EU Ecolabel for hard covering products

EU Ecolabel

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European Commission - Environment
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European Commission
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03/2021
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EU

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The EU Ecolabel is the official European Union label for environmental excellence.

It is awarded to sustainably-designed products, thereby encouraging innovation, and contributing to the EU’s goal of climate neutrality by 2050 and to the circular economy.

Industry can use the EU Ecolabel to offer consumers an eco-friendly alternative to conventional products and help them lower their daily environmental impact.

Ambitious criteria have been set, focusing on the main environmental impacts generated over the lifecycle of these products. This ensures that EU Ecolabel hard covering products are among the best on the market in terms of environmental performance.

Access the full list of EU Ecolabel criteria for hard coverings products here.

 

https://atelierlucileviaud.com/eshop/les-pieces/

Ostraco: from discarded oyster shells to beautiful glass

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Ostraco

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France

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In France, the designer Lucile Viaud found her way to contribute to organic recycling. More precisely, to recycling of seafood waste. Her work is focused on transforming oyster shells into glass.

IALD Position Paper on Circular Economy

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https://www.iald.org/IALD/files/28/28929ab6-5034-4c98-aee6-d5d2a3858317.pdf

IALD Position Paper on Circular Economy: good lighting doesn't just happen... it's designed

IALD

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IALD
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The International Association of Lighting Designers
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09/2020
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Belgium

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Following the publication of the Circular Economy Action Plan in March 2020, the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) recently released a position paper to help ensure that any future regulations reflect the needs and aspirations of the lighting design profession.

The paper also addresses the impact of changes in the value chains of the lighting sector as a result of embracing circular economy - be it by creating second-hand markets or by adopting lighting as a service business model.

In its conclusion, the paper describes how lighting manufacturers, designers, contractors and clients could work together to ensure that the benefits of the circular economy can be achieved.

http://www.closetheglassloop.eu

Close the Glass Loop: a multi-stakeholder partnership to collect more, better quality glass

Close the Glass Loop
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Close the Glass Loop

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Belgium

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Close the Glass Loop wants to achieve an average of 90% collection rate of used glass packaging at EU level by 2030 and a better quality of recycled glass.

http://www.forosnavarra-europa.eu/uploads/files/CIRCULARNAVARRECATALOGUE_DEF2010...

Circular Navarre Catalogue

Circular Navarre Catalogue
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AIN

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Spain

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English

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The Circular Navarre Catalogue is a booklet showcasing 20 organisations - based on circular business models - in the Navarre region, who are looking for international cooperation. 

EVENT: Scaling the circular economy for industry
27 Oct 2020
Scaling the circular economy for industry
Scaling the circular economy for industry

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Online
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EU

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SCALER

Want to discover the latest on industrial symbiosis and the future of sustainable industrial practices? Join this event on 27 October to learn about experiences and case studies regarding successful implementation of industrial symbiosis, find out about tools and gain access to guidelines to kick-start resource efficiency in your own industry.

MaterialDistrict: a unique match-making platform for innovative materials

Material District

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Netherlands

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MaterialDistrict
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MaterialDistrict
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MaterialDistrict is a unique platform for innovative materials which empowers global innovation by match-making material needs with material solutions in the name of circularity. R&D and design professionals of all industrial sectors use this platform to discover new material solutions daily via MaterialDistrict's independent collection of materials, annually at MaterialDistrict Rotterdam and periodically throughout the year with travelling MaterialDistrict Expo, MaterialDistrict Talks and MaterialDistrict Pop-Up events.

http://www.green-group.ro/en/

Transforming waste into resources

Green Group: Resource the Waste
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Green Group Holding

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Romania

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Green Group Holding: integrated waste management solutions for six main waste streams associated with households and SMEs (WEEE, plastics, PET, glass, lighting bulbs, cardboard) are now available in Romania as a pioneer development for South Eastern Europe via a private investment starting back in 2012.

WASCON 2018
06 Jun 2018 to 08 Jun 2018
WASCON2018: No cradle no grave, circular economy in practice: 10th International Conference on the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction with Alternative Materials
Wascon 2018

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Tampere
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Finland

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RIL in cooperation with ISCOWA

WASCON is the reference international conference on the use of alternative materials in construction.

Laura Cutaia

Laura Cutaia

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Department for Sustainability, Italian national agency for new technologies, environment and sustainable economic development

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Italy

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Laura Cutaia - Researcher at ENEA
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Laura Cutaia, researcher at ENEA, is an Environmental Engineer (1996) with a PhD in raw materials engineering (2002). Her main research topics are:

  • Industrial ecology and symbiosis,
  • Technology for raw and secondary materials treatment,
  • Resources management,
  • Life Cycle Assessment,
  • Environmental certification,
  • End of life management.

Laura Cutaia is responsible for making the most of resources at ENEA , where she is working on the circular economy and resource efficiency, industrial ecology and symbiosis, LCA, environmental certification schemes, the REACH regulation and sustainable industrial areas (more information).

Laura Cutaia is also president of SUN - Symbiosis Users Network (Italian network for industrial symbiosis) and president of UNI CT 057 on the circular economy that works with ISO TC 323 on the circular economy. UNI is the Italian body responsible for standardisation.

Leon de Graaf

Leon de Graaf

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BusinessEurope

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Belgium, EU

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Leon de Graaf
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As an adviser for environmental and climate policy, Leon de Graaf particularly follows policies related to the circular economy, trade and climate, low-emission mobility, implementation of the Paris climate agreement (COP21) and the European emission trading system (EU ETS). He is also deputy manager of BusinessEurope's corporate Advisory and Support Group (ASGroup). Prior to joining BusinessEurope, Leon worked at the research consultancy Ecorys, focusing on renewable energy and international development issues, at DG COMP on energy and environmental subsidies in Europe, and at the Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) on indirect ETS costs for energy-intensive industries. Leon has a MSc in environmental economics and climate change from the London School of Economics, and a BSc in business economics from the University of Groningen.

http://www.teilar.gr/dbData/Labs/Lab_Circular_Economy_Eng.pdf

Close the loop in ceramic industry

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Chemical and Construction Materials Technology Laboratory, TEI of Thessaly

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Greece

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In circular economy secondary resources (i.e. end-of-life products), the industrial side streams and wastes, are the “wasted resources of today”, if they are not utilized and returned for use.

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