Berlin began its circular economy transition in 2020 with the adoption of the Waste Management Concept 2020-2030, aiming to implement measures to reduce household, water and construction waste. To advance this transition, it established the Coordination Office for Circular Economy, Energy Efficiency and Climate Protection in Business in 2022 and the Zero Waste Agency in 2023, and commissioned a study to analyse the circular economy’s potential in the industrial sector.
Despite these efforts, the circular economy in Berlin is still often perceived only in terms of sustainable waste management. This paper looks at challenges holding back progress on the circular economy, including policy coherence, and provides recommendations to accelerate the transition.
Are you driving innovation in sustainable energy and contributing to a circular economy for Europe? Does your organisation have a pioneering project that demonstrates the potential of the circular economy for reducing energy consumption, promoting renewable energy or minimising waste?
Then submit your project to the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) Awards 2025!
How many plastic bottles actually enter the recycling process?
Theory is one thing and reality tends to be another. The Czech Ministry of the Environment wanted to find out what really happens to plastic bottles after they are thrown into sorted bins for plastic waste. It commissioned Adastra to carry out a project using IoT technology to track the movement of sorted bottles.
This analysis report was prepared in connection with the EU-funded Wood2Wood project and explores opportunities to advance the circular economy and overcome challenges to waste wood utilisation through supportive policy.
It outlines recommendations and policy options for improving waste wood utilisation through harmonised multi-criteria waste wood classification, refined and extended targets and obligations, enabling policy and policy which fundamentally reflects the lifecycle perspective. These recommendations and policy options serve as a point of departure to help shape the regulatory environment in support of improved waste wood valorisation.
incommon is a non-profit organisation that encourages people to adopt the circular economy as a way of life. They use a bottom-up approach, working with individuals, schools, businesses, institutions, groups and local authorities.
Their approach ensures that people are informed about circular economy principles and engaged in implementing them, enabling them to make sustainable choices and drive local change.
Both the RE-PLAN CITY LIFE and LIFE SILENT projects support the use of recycled rubber in asphalt. Experiences and demonstration projects in various countries have confirmed that this solution is technically viable and more sustainable.
This workshop will involve a visit to an asphalt plant which produces and lays rubberised asphalt and a seminar exploring the most recent experiences and innovations in the use of recycled tyre materials in asphalt and road infrastructure.
A tradition since 2019, the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary (BCSDH) organises the Circular Economy Summit every November with the Dutch Embassy in Hungary. This year's conference will focus on the shift to a circular economy and international and domestic best practices.
Over the last 3 and a half years, the CIRCULAR FoodPack consortium has worked on circular design for flexible packaging. It has demonstrated the various steps required to obtain post-consumer recyclates and shown how to integrate them into new packaging which meets the high standards for food protection and safety.
Attend their final event and see what they learned!
The “Greentech and Circular Economy Innovation” is looking for start-ups and SMEs that are developing innovative solutions for improving refinery waste management, remediating soil and water contamination and improving energy system efficiency.
circulareconomy.earth is a project set up by Chatham House's Environment and Society Programme. It enables users to explore the policy and trade dynamics associated with transitioning from a linear to a circular economy model, as well as providing analyses of the associated opportunities and trade-offs.
