Sulfotools: how sustainable chemicals can disrupt an industry
While the chemical industry generally has a bad reputation in the world of circularity, Sulfotolls is challenging this trend, developing more sustainable and efficient ways to produce chemicals.
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Outlander Materials: ditching our plastic addiction
As single-use plastics are still commonly used for packaging, Outlander materials aims to put an end to this trend with a new circular material: Unplastic.
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Spintex: sustainable textile by nature
Fashion keeps ranking as one of the most polluting industries every year and is in dire need of change. Spintex is an amazing sustainable textile innovator that is going to make it happen.
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ReefSystems: Bringing life back to the oceans
Human maritime activity has been detrimental to marine biodiversity with multiple ecosystems at risk of disappearing. ReefSystems aims to reverse this trend, making maritime construction and marine species coexist.
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UPP! Upcycling Plastic: going beyond recycling
Too often, people associate the circular economy with recycling, forgetting other crucial aspects of circularity. UPP! Upcycling Plastic allows businesses to recycle plastic waste while ensuring that their clients learn how to adopt truly circular business practices.
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British Chambers of Commerce Frontrunners dinner
On November 3rd, 2021 key decision-makers of the private sector gathered for a circular dinner organized by the British Chambers of Commerce as a part of the BCC campaign ‘Chambers Unite for a Greener Future’. The international network of chambers hosted multiple events during the COP26 around global climate leadership.
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Ritswand: A sustainable spin of office space innovation
Having a sustainable workplace has become an essential part of any business' CSR strategy. Ritswand has understood this need, going above and beyond to offer great circular office space solutions, turning any workplace environment into an innovation powerhouse.
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Circular IQ: data-driven circularity
Measuring the environmental impact of a business is notoriously challenging considering the multiple actors involved in goods and services provision. Circular IQ helps companies reach their circular goals by providing data-driven insights into all areas of business value creation.
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Nine ways for circular businesses to set up shop on the island of Curaçao
The island of Curaçao is about to embark on a great journey that will make its economy flourish for many years to come. Do you want to know what is happening and how they are designing their future using the principles of the Doughnut Economy? We asked Juan Carlos, advisor to the CTO Innovation Team of the City of Amsterdam, to elaborate on this in an article. Read his recommendations here!
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Co-Create Dakar: A story of cross-cultural collaboration
In 2021 Co-Create My City, an initiative by de ROV Netherlands brought Dutch and Senegalese students, together in an innovation bootcamp to co-develop circular and innovative solutions for real and concrete circular challenges of the city of Dakar.
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Holland Circular Hotspot: Inspiring and inspired by circular entrepreneurs
Back in 2016, the Netherlands set the goal to be 50% circular by 2030 and fully circular by 2050, a serious commitment to the Paris Agreement and serious example worldwide. Therefore they launched Holland Circular Hotspot a platform supporting Dutch-based and international initiatives, with the goal of reshaping the linear into a circular economy within multiple industries. Circular Stories works closely together with HCH, shaping its storytelling and helping them getting their message across.
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GreenPay: Putting Value into Waste
While it has become a habit for most people to bring used batteries to the supermarket or medicine to the pharmacy so that professionals can dispose of them safely, it is not the case for most other products. GreenPay is a circular platform that aims to put value into waste, standardizing second-hand practices from consumers and manufacturers to create a circular loop of goods.
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Plastic Whale Foundation: Sailing towards plastic free oceans
Stop Talking, Start Doing! The Plastic Whale Foundation is sailing towards plastic-free oceans for our next generations. In their campaigns they focus on elementary school kids, their teachers and parents. In this campaign they have worked closely together with influencer and rapper / teacher Meester Hidde.
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#025 – Fungi for food and for feed
I had no idea how much is wasted in the production of our food. With Mycorena we upcycle this waste into new food products.
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Boomplantprojecten: een kritische blik
Je boekt je vliegreis en besluit je CO2-uitstoot te compenseren, om zo jouw footprint te verkleinen. Maar hoe werkt dit eigenlijk in de praktijk? Samen met MOYU duiken we in alle ins en outs van boomplantprojecten!
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#009 The missing link to the fashion industry to become fully circular
The Berlin based start up Circular.Fashion developed the circularity.ID label for garments. The missing piece of information to close the loop in effective clothes recycling. And thus adressing the huge carbon footprint of the textiles industry, which is responsible for 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emission a year.
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Goodhout: an elegant and circular wood alternative
From water to milk or oil products, there are many ways to use coconuts, and yet most of the product is still wasted. Goodhout found a solution to upcycle this waste into an incredible circular wood alternative.
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Circularity in Poland – Gospodarka Cyrkularna
In the 'Roadmap towards the Transition to "gospodarka cyrkularna”', the Polish government talks about maximisation of added value of resources and products, and minimisation of waste. A reflection on the transition towards a resource-efficient, innovative and competitive Polish economy.
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#004 Mycelio Organic Mushrooms
In the mountains of Catalunya, a mushroom is closing the loops for an hotel, local chefs, the social forestry and the EU Life project, while creating jobs and a healthy and safe nature area.
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Circularity in England – How do the British drink their circular tea?
The British and the Dutch are both committed to a more resource efficient circular economy keeping resources in use as long as possible, extracting maximum value from them and minimizing waste. This is an interview with Terence Speijer, Senior Commercial Attaché at the Dutch Embassy in London.
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#021 Data driven kitchens have insight in food waste
Yearly, over 10.000 kilos food is wasted in each single restaurant. Lack of insight causes inefficient stock management and overproduction of dishes, wasting food but also money and energy. Orbisk has found a solution!
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Circularity in Germany – Kreislaufwirtschaft, Zirkuläre Ökonomie oder einfach Circular Economy?
There are certainly differences in the definition of CE between Germany and the Netherlands. Gijs Könings, Policy Advisor Circular Economy and Sustainable Mobility in Berlin, tells us more.
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#006 Lets make agriculture great again!
SeedForward created the ‘Viagra for crops’; a blue bio-based formula to enhance soil health and growth of crops like maize and grains, to stand up tall and potent. Do these blue seeds hold the key to more sustainable methods of farming?
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#026 A Fertile and Loving Partnership
N2 Applied has developed a solution to harvest nitrogen from the air using electricity and develops this into an efficient fertiliser. This fertile love couple is shaking up the agri industry.
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Circularity in France – Économie Circulaire
An elaborated interview on the differences and opportunities of CE in France with Leontine Schijf, senior advisor Circular Economy at the Dutch Embassy in Paris.
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‘We believe stories will inspire all to
rethink the way we live, love, travel, work and do business.’
rethink the way we live, love, travel, work and do business.’
Ellekari & Mariëlle
Founders of Circular Stories
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