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Ford Motor Company announced on Monday that they’ve begun testing 3D printing of large-scale parts, using tech provided by 3D printing industry giant Stratasys. 3D printed parts don’t just have cos

During a pilot study to decolour drinking water, Vitens discovered that the perceived waste stream removed actually contained humic acids and table salt. Vitens searched for a method to reduce the

Lease A Jeans is a program of MUD Jeans where consumers can lease instead of buy a pair of jeans.

ABN AMRO has developed a Circular Economy Guide to help their clients in all relevant industries to help get them on the fast track to becoming circular.

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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

Interface produces modular carpet tiles that allow for endless customisation.

Dozr is a digital marketplace that connects equipment renters with equipment lenders.

Smurfit Kappa's Roermond plant has won several environmental awards over the years.

Wieland Textiles has been dealing in quality used clothing and shoes on a massive scale since 1982.

Parkbee provides a digital platform to make private parking places accessible to the general public.

The Excess Materials Exchange (EME) is a digital marketplace where companies can exchange excess materials with each other.

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

Project JUST provides a platform for consumers to find out more about ethical and responsible information for clothing from various brands and retailers.

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Instock has a new product - granola, made from brewers’ grains. Brewers’ grains are the solid residue of malt; they are left after the process of brewing beer.

The Gilroy Unified School District has handed over their old diesel school bus and have, in return, received a fully converted vehicle that runs on electricity.

Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, etc.

Octopi is the marketplace for the industry where spare equipment and overstock are traded among end users, contractors and traders.

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The UK’s WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Regulations require distributors that are directly supplying new Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) for use in private households to

Fruitleather Rotterdam is currently developing a new, eco- friendly process that converts leftover fruits into durable, leather-like material.

Renewi, created in 2017 by the merger of Shanks Group plc and Van Gansewinkel Groep B.V., is a waste-to-product business with over 8,000 employees across nine countries in Europe and North America.

Nebia leverages advances in design and thermofluids to create a better shower experience that saves thousands of gallons of water a year.

Social Car is a pioneering initiative in Spain that lets car owners rent out their automobiles for a limited time to people who temporarily need a car.

During 2015, Unliever organised training sessions on the circular economy approach, covering a wide range of internal functions and categories.

Re:newcell has made Rayon from recycled cotton and created the first dress from 100% recycled cotton. They are also building textile recycling factories throughout Europe.

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.

Microferm is a small scale cattle waste digestion facility built at a dairy farm in Den Bommel, Netherlands by bioenergy specialist, HoSt.

Fiscalini Farms uses two anaerobic digester tanks to manage the waste from its cattle.

A group of automobile leasing companies in the Netherlands have taken the initiative to create a label for sustainable auto leasing.

ArtStock recovers and recycles sets, props and stage equipment from various artistic productions and then redistributes them by selling them to its members at low cost.

In 2008, in a world first, three complementary companies - INDRA, SITA, and RENAULT pooled their respective expertise and resources to managing and distri

DLL provides financing for immediate retrofit/upgrade project opportunities for lighting.

Circularise is a startup that utilises blockchain technology to enable product lifecycle tracking, automated reporting on compliancy, advanced analytics, and value chain stakeholder analysis.

IBM and Danish transport company Maersk said they were working together to digitize, manage, and track shipping transactions using blockchain technology. The blockchain solution being built by the

The ECO-WOLF recycling system consists of two major components.

Adaptavate provides a new approach to the way building materials are produced, used and disposed of.

Microsoft is evaluating the long-term prospects of underwater data centres, in a bid to cut latencies, improve service, and take advantage of some of the ocean’s unique characteristics.

TU Delft is researching how the self-healing capacity of concrete structures can be improved by using calcite-precipitating bacteria and what conditions are nece

A small Brussels-based brewery, the Brussels Beer Project, teamed up with Atelier Groot Eiland, a nonprofit focused on employment and education, to collect leftover

UK Sailmakers France, the developer of MatriX Titanium® sails for the UK Sailmakers group, has introduced Titanium Blue® membrane sails that do not use petroleum based film (Mylar) as their skin ma

Gary Chang, managing director of the Edge Design Institute, has designed his own 344-square-foot Hong Kong apartment to have movable walls and furniture to create over 24 different rooms, from a ki

Ushahidi, a technology company in Nairobi, was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election violence in 2008.

Joule Unlimited is taking advantage of the New Mexico sunshine to produce solar-derived fuels.

Ecopneus in collaboration with Matrec has a catalogue of products that are made through the recovery and reuse of end-of-life tyres. Each product and powder / granule of the catalog is presented wi

Circular Clockworks produces watches made from recycled materials.

Embark is focused on transforming commercial trucking by deploying automated trucks. Since early October, autonomous trucks built and operated by the Embark have been hauling Frigidaire refrigerato

Practical Action is implementing integrated rice-duck farming project in Chitwan and Nawalparasi districts of Nepal with the financial support of Grand Challenges Canada.

The Biological House was created by a multidisciplinary team involving more than 40 partners, including Copenhagen-based design firm Een TIl Een, sustainable architecture firm GXN, wood-treatment c

GREEN HOME is South Africa’s first and to this day, only completely compostable food packaging company.