The Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) initiative is a collaboration of over 180 European companies, associations and organisations representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging. It wants all flexible packaging to be designed for easy collection, sorting and recycling, with valuable new markets and applications created for the recycled materials.
CEFLEX stakeholders represent the full value chain including: raw material producers (plastics, paper and aluminium foil), ink, coating and adhesive suppliers, film producers and flexible packaging converters, brand owners, waste management companies, recyclers, extended producer responsibility organisations and technology suppliers.
CER Sustainable Business Network Slovenia is the largest sustainable business network in Slovenia, on a mission to strengthen ambitions and activities to achieve a climate-neutral economy faster.
They bring business leaders together to share experience and good practices, advocate for change, influence policy and accelerate the green transition using collective action. They raise awareness, grow ambition, build capacities, promote green tech and foster partnerships to boost the transition to climate neutrality.
They bridge the gap between stakeholders, offering them a safe space for open discussion about systemic barriers to reach climate neutrality. The circular economy is one of its areas of interest.
CER is involved in the EU's DESIRE project on Designing the Irresistible Circular Society
Chemical Recycling Europe represents the European chemical recycling industry. It aims to promote and implement a circular economy for plastics through innovative solutions offered by chemical recycling.
Chemical recycling can help combat climate change by limiting further emissions, and chemical recycling technologies play a key role in supporting the transition towards a more sustainable and circular economy in Europe.
Chemical Recycling Europe's members offer innovative and unique technologies to transform previously unrecyclable plastic waste into new raw materials. Chemical recycling makes it possible to close the loop and provides many solutions to the plastic waste crisis.
Circe.med is a network of Mediterranean organisations involved in the transition towards ecologically and sustainable ecosystems. Established at the start of 2024, it wants to help deliver a carbon-free, circular economy which will improve people's quality of life.
The initiative aims to deepen, promote and implement a circular economy based on efficient and reduced use of natural resources.
Three main strands:
Sustainable food
Tourism and plastic in coastal areas
The built environment
The network's member organisations strive to deliver an effective circular economy in the Mediterranean which will benefit their individual ecosystems and the region as a whole.
The network is supported by an online platform, Circemed.org, which promotes cooperation and acts as a resource centre.
CIRCLE is a transnational cooperation project aimed at promoting circular economy solutions in SMEs in rural areas.
The project comes under the EU's LEADER programme and its objectives are as follows:
increase knowledge and awareness about circular economy and its potential for enterprises in rural areas
increase cooperation between local enterprises
increase international cooperation and create networks, and to enhance existing ways of implementing circular economy.
The project partners have agreed to organise one programme in each country with visits to enterprises, farms and organisations implementing circular economy or innovative environment-friendly solutions.
Circle Lab is an online platform for cities, businesses and individuals to explore, brainstorm and implement circular business models and strategies with a view to tackling global and local challenges.
By digitising knowledge, opening up access and encouraging co-creation, it aims to break down information silos and fuel cross-industry collaboration and innovation.
Circle Lab currently contains over 1 500 examples of the circular economy in practice – all freely accessible – and enables cities and businesses to host online challenges that collectively explore and find solutions to circularity challenges around the world.
Its Knowledge hub has sections on case studies, indicators, key elements of the circular economy, policies and the SDGs.
Cities and entrepreneurs are expected to be full of inspiring and sustainable ideas but they often have a lot of questions before they can implement those ideas. How do you set up a product-as-a-service business model? How do I protect my logo? How can you support cititzens' initiatives? How can the financiers be involved...
To get an answer to all these and other questions, you can ask experts at CircleAid. They have specific experience of the circular economy: business models, procurement, governance, financing...
These experts are mentors who can guide you through your circular questions. Consultants who want to become part of this database can apply if they have experience or knowledge of the circular economy.
CIRCLES is a platform dedicated to disseminating circular economy solutions in the Eastern Netherlands. It encourages entrepreneurs to participate in the green transition, promoting their sense of ownership in the transition process. It offers a space for stakeholders to interact and exchange views on circular economy – digitally or physically - or simply a space to establish partnerships.
Several organisations – public, private and NGOs – interact in a range of ways, including workshops, publications, opportunities to access finance. One of the initiatives, for instance, consists of a space to submit ideas. If viable, cooperation with regional universities can be established, and entrepreneurs can collaborate to reach solutions.
Circul'R is a team that has the expertise to help companies and regions shift to a circular economy.
It aims to unlock the circular economy's potential by connecting innovative startups with companies so that they can co-create solutions to accelerate their transition towards the circular economy.
Focus areas:
training on identifying the challenges and opportunities of the circular economy,
consultancy (helping companies go circular,
Circul'R Club (more than 100 companies and institutions, from large groups to local authorities, including ESG funds and committed startups. Each participant contributes to the transition towards a circular economy model),
Circul'R coalitions (aiming to bring together companies from different sectors to address specific issues and deploy circular projects).
This initiative is powered by APPLiA - Home Appliance Europe, representing home appliance manufacturers from across Europe.
The Circular Appliances website takes readers through each phase of the home appliance lifecycle, from design to end-of-use. There is a straightforward description of each phase and statistics on this sector.
The Circular Culturewebsite provides a platform for all those who would like to share their practices and recommend innovative solutions for different topics, such as food waste prevention, recycling and resource efficiency. There is a collection of circular projects.
