The LIAISE COST Action is a European initiative dedicated to promoting industrial symbiosis.
It has deployed an online platform designed to accelerate the global transition toward sustainable industrial ecosystems. Information is retrieved automatically from international patents, policy portals and high-impact publications, then verified by experts.
Cillian Lohan discusses why the CEA should mark a systemic shift in EU industrial policy, the role of public procurement in driving demand for circular products, and how Europe can reconcile reindustrialisation with lower resource consumption.
The Circular Aluminium Action Plan is the aluminium sector’s strategy for achieving aluminium’s full potential for a circular economy by 2030. The action plan aims to ensure that all end-of-life aluminium products are collected and recycled efficiently in Europe to maximise the aluminium recycling rates and to keep the material in active use. It builds on the aluminium industry’s Vision 2050 and provides policy recommendations for the sector.
The aluminium industry has the potential to be a key driver in achieving Europe’s ambitions for a climate-neutral and circular economy. Aluminium is by nature circular and fit for multiple recycling: it can be recycled over and over again without losing its original properties (lightness, conductivity, formability, durability, impermeability).
This two-day international event is organised by the WEEE Forum in cooperation with WEEE Ireland.
It will bring together policymakers, industry leaders, producer responsibility organisations (PROs), recyclers, manufacturers and circular economy experts to discuss the future of Extended Producer Responsibility and electronic waste management within Europe's evolving circular economy framework.
This event brings together six ECOSYSTEX member projects, each hosting dedicated sessions on advancing circularity and sustainability across the European textile and fashion sector.
Participants will gain insight into cutting-edge research, practical tools and policy approaches driving the shift towards circular textiles beyond recycling — with plenty of opportunities to connect with project teams and fellow stakeholders across the European value chain.
This session will enable participants to engage in a discussion on curbing ultra-fast fashion, regulating textile waste and advancing circular solutions for the textile sector.
It is part of Generation Climate Europe’s ongoing Youth Report on Textile Waste and aims to ensure that youth perspectives inform EU-level policy discussions and recommendations.
The circular economy is increasingly recognised as a pathway to long-term economic resilience and prosperity.
However, its application to date has focused primarily on finite, technical materials, overlooking bio-based materials. This gap limits the ability of the circular economy to deliver system-wide impact.
This paper intends to shed new light on the application of the circular economy framework to bio-based materials.
It finds that better alignment of policy agendas on circular economy and bio-based materials could deliver wide-ranging socioeconomic and environmental benefits. Many countries could see this as a key opportunity in the development of bio-based sectors within global value chains. It could also help to distribute value more fairly across all actors involved.
The LIFE Awards 2026 included the Circular Economy & Quality of Life category.
The winner proposed a replicable way to reduce the amount of WEEE generated, and one of the runners up designed tools to optimise wastewater treatment while reducing waster consumption.
Waste prevention innovation in cities works, with the right conditions.
This new report reveals how two megacities built circular economy programmes that reduced waste, supported informal workers and created lasting systemic change.
It presents the lessons learned from the Circular Economy Innovation Cluster (CEIC) programme funded by the IKEA Foundation and implemented in Bengaluru, India and Nairobi, Kenya from 2023 to 2025.
The report sets out what it takes to shift urban economies away from linear, waste-making-waste-recycling models towards less waste generation in the first place.
