The wax worm, a caterpillar typically used for fishing bait and known for damaging beehives by eating their wax comb, has now been observed munching on a differe
Inashco was founded in the Netherlands in 2008 to offer a unique patented technology developed by the Technical University of Delft for recovering and up-grading fine non-ferrous metals from munici
Greengrit is a crushed glass grit made from 100% post-consumer recycled glass. It is crushed, cleaned, sized and packaged to provide the ideal blast media for many applications.
The Circular Innovation Program 2016-2018 provides insight into the most important innovation projects and developments in the city in the field of Circular Economy and the way the City of Amsterdam a
The research project 'Antwerp, the circular city of tomorrow' aims to generate new insights at the crossroads of urbanism, circular economy and spatial tasks in Antwerp.
Belo Horizonte’s municipal Action Plan for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction (APGHGER) has established a Greenhouse Gas emissions reduction target of 20 percent by 2030.
Birmingham’s Green Commission is a partnership that acts as an advisory body to the City Council and the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership on all matters relating to the env
Atelier Productive Metropolis BXL is an initiative in Brussels that proposes giving old industrial sites a new lease on life by focusing on attracting innovative production activities.
The role of Budapest's Integrated Urban Development Strategy is to determine the city’s mid-term development duties, along with programs for the Budapest City Council.
The Educo Project consists on the collection of Used Cooking Oil (UCO) at schools to produce biodiesel, involving students and creating jobs for people at risk of social exclusion.
CLEAN seeks to create an attractive platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration among Danish and international companies, knowledge institutions, organisations and authorities.
Within the project Ecofeste, the Municipality of Cremona has adopted a "Decalogue of good practices" that will be the reference point for event organizers pointing towards reduction in the amount of w
The Dublin City Sustainable Energy Action Plan 2010-20 aims to prioritise and elaborate on the main energy-related actions arising from the climate change strategy.
Since the beginning of 2013, Frankfurt has developed the “Masterplan 100 % Climate Protection” – a vision of how the city can halve today’s final energy consumption by the year 2050 and meet the remai
The G'innove program, managed by the Agenda 21 - Sustainable City service, is intended to provide financial support, limited in time, to projects presenting a societal innovation.
The Environment directorate (Direction générale de l’environnement - DGE), in conjunction with the Cantonal energy board (Office cantonal de l’énergie - OCEN), the Foundation for industrial land in Ge
Green Gothenburg works to increase national and international recognition of the Gothenburg region as a leader in environmental and sustainable development.
The innovation platform for sustainable and attractive urban development is an initiative of the City of Gothenburg, Johanneberg Science Park and the research centre Mistra Urban Futures.
The collection service is made on request of citizens. The collection on demand allows the collection of certain types of waste that cannot be collected by the conventional ways.
The project Governance, Policy and Knowledge in Urban Sustainability seeks to understand mainstream and alternative approaches to sustainability and encourage a dialogue between stakeholders engaged i
The recovery of textiles, linens and shoes is part of Marseille's Metropolitan Framework of Waste Management, which involves around 750 collection points.
The "Objectives for Waste and Circular Economy" contract establishes a participative action towards the reduction of waste production and enhancement of materials value involving ADEME, Conseil Region
Oslo’s incentives programme on electric vehicles (which also includes national incentives) comprises zero rated purchasing tax and no VAT, free pass on toll roads, access to bus and taxi lanes, free p
The Roadmap focuses on (1) Urban development with new housing and infrastructure built from local recycled products and through adopting modular and self-sustaining models; (2) Cleantech/ sharing econ
The Rotterdam Climate Initiative is a large collaboration platform between City Council, the Port of Rotterdam and the Rotterdam Environmental Service working towards a sustainable port and city.
The "Benefit As You Save" project focuses on the development of an Action Plan to conduct pilots for separate collection of packaging and food waste and to promote participation of citizens in the pro
Vision 2040 builds on the principle that the city grows with the individual at its centre, and with respect for the limits of nature without jeopardising the living conditions of future generations.
Styria is the first Austrian province to legally implement the separate collection of biogenic waste by integrating it into the Styrian Waste Management Act 1990 (StAWG).
Three Rio Tinto iron ore mines - Yandicoogina, Hope Downs 4 and Nammuldi - are the first in the world to move all of their iron ore using fully automated, driverless haulage trucks.