Water2REturn was an Innovation Action co-funded by the European Commission under its Horizon 2020 programme. It focused on the recovery and recycling of nutrients from slaughterhouse wastewater as part of a circular economy model.
Sfridoo.com is an Italian B2B platform for purchasing and selling scrap materials. Using sharing economy principles to turn the circular economy into a reality, Sfridoo has already enabled more than 2500 businesses to recycle and reuse industrial scraps.
The PAPERCHAIN project aimed to deploy five novel circular economy models centred around making use of the waste streams generated by the Pulp and Paper Industry (PPI).
FLOOW2 is the sharing marketplace solution for every business, organisation and network.
It works locally and internationally to identify needs and opportunities of asset sharing for businesses. Sharing assets may be a new concept, but it is an integral part of the development towards a more circular economy in which collaboration is key!
The SYMBI project helped improve the implementation of regional development policies and programmes related to the promotion and dissemination of industrial symbiosis and the circular economy.
Its website describes various projects based on industrial symbiosis.
SubsTer® is a geotechnical engineering process that recreates fertile soil from tailings. It can be used to reclaim unused materials and create substitute farmland for crops or landscape without stripping soil from existing fields.
By installing a liquid cooling and heat recovery system in server rooms or decentralising its servers in "digital boilers" located in residential and public buildings, Stimergy recycled heat from data servers to water heating systems. Thanks to its liquid heat recovery system, Stimergy reduced both energy waste of servers and energy needs of water heating systems.
Aurubis, an expert in multi-metal recycling, and Grillo-Werke, which specialises in zinc and sulphur products, have set up a perfect closed loop for non ferrous trace elements.
Residual zinc from copper production is used by Grillo-Werke as a secondary raw material for zinc sulfate. Residues from this production - including copper, tin and lead - are then fed back to Aurubis.
