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A highlight at the Healthy Printing Symposium 2018 in Lüneburg was the announcement by brewing group Carlsberg that they are rolling out healthy printing inks for the labels of their core brand Carlsberg globally.   This ambitious goal was started through intensive cooperation and development work with the ink manufacturer hubergroup and the Töpfer printing company Read more [...]

The Port of Rotterdam Authority and the Municipality of Rotterdam partnered with KWS Infra and Arizona Chemical to deploy recycled asphalt. This recycled asphalt, developed by the two firms, can be restored up to its original specifications. A bio-based “rejuvenator”, the raw material which is extracted from by-products of pine Read more [...]

At the end of year 2014 the Lozere Department engaged in a territorial plan of waste prevention. Among the different actions, the Department has implemented an action in three pilot colleges to fight food waste in the canteens. The ambitious and transversal program involved actors at all levels in the Read more [...]

The door to door households organic waste collection plan was first introduced in November 2012 in one quarter of the city of Milan and then was extended to the whole city in June 2014. Collection frequency is twice a week.The aim of the separate collection of food waste is to Read more [...]

The city of Almere, working together with local stakeholders and the company Millvision, has developed an innovative circular economy partnership. Mowed plants from the local lake instead of just being disposed of, are now being integrated by Millvision, a paper company, in to biomass blends used to produce sustainable paper.  Read more [...]

The Circular Economy Demonstration Projects programme was launched in 2014 and has been repeated yearly, having developed 36 projects by 2016. Its purpose is to establish new solutions on the market and Circular Economy business opportunities by conducting semi-industrial or industrial tests that confirm the environmental-economic-technical feasibility of new solutions to Read more [...]

In 2013, the Dutch Government established the Circular Procurement Green Deal to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. This programme brought together 45 public and private parties, and tasked each of them with carrying out two circular procurement initiatives in order to increase experience, share insights, and create a Read more [...]

As part of Nantes’ Responsible Purchasing Promotion Scheme (RPPS), the metropolitan council created 11 ‘Action Sheets’ for Procurement, including one on the Circular Economy. This presents a clear and simple break-down of the policy areas which the circular economy contributes to and what has been achieved to date. It also Read more [...]

The Ham trick (Kinkkutemppu in Finnish) is a consumer campaign that was organised in 2016 and 2017 in Finland during the Christmas period. The Ham trick is a cross-sectoral co-operation with Finnish companies and organizations. The aim of the campaign was to bring the concept of circular economy closer to consumers, to Read more [...]

Schiphol Group, Cofely and Royal Philips, have entered into a collaboration for the new lighting in the terminal buildings at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.  Schiphol Airport boosts the principles of sustainability with the goal to generate zero waste by 2030. Supporting circular economy, it concluded the agreement with Philips Lighting, which has Read more [...]

Collection of the surplus of prepared meals and products of the first necessity of the restaurants and food of the territory, especially school lunches, and its later distribution through the banks of foods. Doing a dual function, social and elimination of food waste. WHAT WORKED WELL Given food to 10,025 Read more [...]

Within Umeå municipality there are currently a number of possibilities for urban cultivation as the municipality is giving associations the possibility to use public space for growing food intitiaves in public spaces around the city. The Municipality leases out land for cultivation plots and colonies to support urban cultures by allowing Read more [...]

Developed from December 2011 to August 2015. Redeveloping an existing cluster of buildings into a 24,000 m2 head office for energy grid company Liander, housing more than 1500 workers. WHAT WORKED WELL Upgrade scrapwood, which was otherwise destined to be burned, to be used for interior façade elements (which constituted Read more [...]

The City of Aalborg has implemented a circular public procurement of learning environments in the municipal primary schools. The tender provided the framework for how to recycle and repair the furniture to the municipality’s primary schools: instead of investing in brand new furniture and throw the old away, the task was Read more [...]

Waste was being pilled up near an unplanned settlement (Enkanini) in Stellenbosch Municipality. An alternative food waste treatment method was piloted in Enkanini in partnership with Stellenbosch Municipality and Probiokashi (Pty) Ltd. The method used bokashi substrate to treat food waste with microorganisms. Bokashi composting is an anaerobic process that relies on Read more [...]

The UK disposes of around 3 billion disposable nappies each year, representing an estimated 2% to 3% of all household waste. WHAT WORKED WELL By the time one baby is potty trained the baby could use 4,000 to 6,000 disposable nappies. In comparison, a baby only needs around 20 to Read more [...]

After opening its new doors 2013, the town hall received a Dutch Award for Sustainable Architecture. The building’s foundation is a historic structure dating back to 1890. A modular space was added to the town hall, the qualities of the historic building kept intact, restored where necessary and connected to Read more [...]

Dubbed the Zero Waste Textile Initiative by the city of San Francisco, the I:CO City initiative makes it seamless and simple to recycle unwanted textiles. When I:CO approached the city looking to create something of a beta test for its infrastructure-based closed loop system, it seemed like a perfect match. On its Read more [...]