Hilature Ferre mill has been recycling textile materials since 1947, but it is in 2015 that the company officially launched its Recover Upcycled Textile System for open end high quality recycled yarns.
Hilaturas Ferre collects and sorts textile waste resources from all over the planet, cutting and shredding them to produce new fiber to feed their industrial spinning process.
In Hamburg, green public procurement principles are included in the City's overarching procurement policy. Additional environmental contract requirements are imposed by the City.
Hamburg has taken a significant step forward to encourage an increase of recycling rates in construction materials by establishing an online exchange for soil, debris and construction materials.
Ioniqa is a clean-tech-spin-off based in the Netherlands that has developed an innovative process to recycle all types and colours of PET waste into high quality pure raw materials that ensures a less impact on scarce resources like oil.
In 2017, Ecoembes launched its pioneering circular economy project in Europe, TheCircularLab, which will involve all phases of packaging from creation, via ecodesign, up to the reintroduction of our products into the consumption cycle. TheCircularLab aims to turn the La Rioja region into a great centre for experimentation by enabling innovations to be tested on a real scale.
The Port of Rotterdam Authority and the Municipality of Rotterdam in partnership with KWS Infra and Arizona Chemical to deploy recycled asphalt. The processing of rejuvenation utilizes a "rejuvenator" using raw material extracted from pine tree by-products.
The Farmacie Comunali of the city of Genoa, in partnership with the Associazione Gigi Ghirotti, organises the collection of unused pharmaceuticals to provide for the needs of those who would otherwise struggle to afford them. Through this project, Genoa's eight Farmacie Comunali distribute these "reused" pharmaceutical products.
If car sharing could be a success, so could buggy sharing! This thought led to Frank Verheijden championing the idea, and in 2014, Buggybooker started commercially sharing children's buggies.
The research institute IVL has developed a new technology that may revolutionize textile recycling. It consists on sorting effectively clothes or other fabrics based on various types of fibres and it aims to increase efficiency and quality in textile sorting, therefore improving quality of recycled products.
Lithuania Post is encouraging residents to pay special attention to waste batteries containing hazardous materials (lead, cadmium, mercury etc.) that may contaminate groundwater and damage the environment and human health.
Finland's post office has put in place a new recycling system to collect and separate its employee's valuable and re-usable work clothing that matches the new Posti brand, including mail deliverers’ shell jackets and trousers, winter coats and reflective work clothes.
L’Institut National de l’Économie Circulaire lance le 1er Février un programme annuel de Rendez-vous en Régions avec à ses côtés ses membres et partenaires FEDEREC, GRDF, le Groupe La Poste et CCI France.
The workshop will provide delegates with an insight into the instruments of the European Commission and the driving forces behind the Circular Economy.
RebelSpaces, the Nijmegen-based circular economy business incubator, opens its doors January 18th during the Dutch Week of the Circular Economy as an opportunity to directly meet the founders and innovators whose start-ups are today building the products and services of tomorrow.
ACR+ is hosting an event on “Circular Economy Competences - Making the Case for Lifelong Learning” in the European Parliament in Brussels on February 19th 2019 with MEPs Silvia Costa and Simona Bonafè. This seminar will bring together existing practices and key actors of circular economy in education to foster a Europe-wide debate on circular economy and education that can facilitate and promote international cooperation through knowledge sharing and exchange of good practices.
Face aux enjeux environnementaux, économiques et sociaux auxquels est confrontée notre société actuelle, le Brabant wallon est déterminé à concilier de façon équilibrée les réflexions, les orientations et les décisions d’aujourd’hui pour préserver les générations de demain. Aux fins d’encourager des initiatives exemplaires au regard de ces thématiques, et par la même occasion de sensibiliser et d’inciter les citoyens à adopter de bonnes pratiques, le Brabant wallon organise les Trophées Incidences, à destination des entreprises, des agriculteurs, des associations, des particuliers et des services publics.
Face aux enjeux environnementaux, économiques et sociaux auxquels est confrontée notre société actuelle, le Brabant wallon est déterminé à concilier de façon équilibrée les réflexions, les orientations et les décisions d’aujourd’hui pour préserver les générations de demain. Aux fins d’encourager des initiatives exemplaires au regard de ces thématiques, et par la même occasion de sensibiliser et d’inciter les citoyens à adopter de bonnes pratiques, le Brabant wallon organise les Trophées Incidences, à destination des entreprises, des agriculteurs, des associations, des particuliers et des services publics.
Two events dedicated to circular economy, in the form of workshops for specific audiences - To transform business models and create an enabling policy environment.
