Showcases

Clariter - a solution to the global plastic waste epidemic

How can we say goodbye to plastic landfills?

TerraWaste - from plastic waste to a cost-free resource

Is there a solution to virgin plastic in industrial and societal contexts?

Van Peperzeel- the collector of old batteries and metals

A new life for old batteries, to be recycled and repurposed.

Synova - inspired by the cycle of nature

Is it possible to convert plastic back to its original building blocks?

Itero - turning waste into a resource

Chemical recycling technologies for plastics circular economies

Food for Skin - Pioneering Natural Cosmetics Towards Sustainability

Is it possible to create cosmetics entirely from natural sources?

RWE FUREC - for a greener hydrogen

What if it would be possible to produce hydrogen from nonrecyclable waste?

Neste - a business based on sustainability

The future of aviation lies in sustainable fuels

GIDARA - to unlock maximum value out of waste

Can we convert non-recyclable waste into cleaner valuable products?

Eigen Draads - to valorize valueless textiles

A sustainable initiative to realise a textile recycling hub

Bureau Veritas - shaping a world of trust

A mission to ensure responsible progress of sustainable practices

BrigH2 - a new way for hydrogen

What if it could be possible to torrefied biomass into hydrogen?

BlueAlp - to accelerate plastic recycling

Cutting-edge technology to upcycle plastic waste into valuable feedstocks

Blue Cycle - from plastic waste to sustainable resources

The place where plastic waste is transformed to reusable oil

Alfa Laval - for a more sustainable chemical recycling process

An innovative way to use expertise on chemical recycling.

Essity and Renewi – Recycling of nappies

Nappies are converted into a new secondary raw material

Chemelot Circular Hub - to accelerate waste technology advancement

A programme to establish an Europe’s leading circular hub

Port of Amsterdam - the 'circular loop' of cities.

A place to create sustainable, shared value for cities, regions and Europe.

IRS Robotics: Sustainability in refurbished robots

Giving discarded robots a second lease on life

Batteryline - manufacturing the batteries of tomorrow

The expert platform for efficient and sustainable battery-line solutions

NOWOS - Waste prevention through battery repair and repurpose

NOWOS fosters sustainable practices in the lithium-ion battery industry

Heskon BV - Battery service expert for small electric vehicles

Heskon BV offers battery repair services for all small electric vehicles

BNA-Battery - Refurbishing battery packs for Hybrid cars

BNA-Battery specialises in reconditioning NiMH batteries of hybrid cars

Injection point & DFNS: a new creation made from recycled materials

Injection Point product made from recycled plastic

Miton accu's en batterijen - Refurbishing e-bike batteries

Miton refurbishes old or defective e-bike battery cells

EcarACCU - Breathing new life into lithium-ion batteries

EcarACCU creates affordable energy solutions by reusing EV battery packs

Seenons - The tech platform to enable the circular economy

Seenons addresses commercial waste through circular waste management

Injection Point: Ace & Tate on becoming a Circular business

Circular Approach with Upcycled Spectacle Cases Made Plastic Demo Lens

Cyclin B.V.

Circular insulation panels based on residual streams of cellulose fibers

Aliter Networks - Make a difference with IT

Aimes at extending the life of IT assets

Noord-Holland Noord (NHN)

NHN Development Agency driving forces in Noord-Holland Noord

VonWood - Circular Online Platform

How digitalisation can make the timber trade more sustainable

VLOAT® - Island Living in the City by Circular Floating Districts

The circular answer to future sea level rise

Circularity B.V. - The first completely 100% circularly produced product in the Netherlands

100% Circular Textile Manufacturing Company

Fresh Ventures Studio - Revolutionizing ownership while transforming the food system

Co-founding companies to transform the food system.

Cooloo - Endless Life for the furniture industry

Waste material based circular coatings for Endless Life furniture.

Floating Farm – From cow to city to cow

The first self-sufficient floating farm in the world

Procomat - WasteMate, the smart solar powered waste compacting bin

Smart, sustainable and self-pressing waste bins

C-Bèta - Circular Hotspot

A circular economy incubator at Schiphol Trade Park

Mitsubishi Elevator Europe - Elevator as a service

A "Circular Digital-Engineering company" to realize sustainability

GSES - Transparency Metrics and Certifications for Circular Economy

Digital platform for sustainability and (chain) transparency

BioBTX - making circular chemistry possible

Developing biobased and renewable aromatics for a sustainable future

MUSA intimates - making lingerie comfortable and sustainable

The world's first circular underwear made out of banana

Byewaste - Smart and easy solution to reduce waste

Cycling for recycling app

Milgro - Waste control and raw material recovery

Technology organization for managing natural capital

Umincorp - Tray-to-tray recycling

Finding cooperation across the plastics value chain

Sustonable - The Circular Design Surface

Sustainable decorative surfaces for conscious homes

Ciskin | Circular Skin

New circular facade solution from facade builders

Black Winch - Scalable 'As-A-Service business model'

Turning product-based businesses into an in-house subscription model

Blue Phoenix Group – Building a Sustainable Future

Turning ash into new materials

FLOOW2.Community - making B2B sharing accessible for every organisation, region and network

Enabling B2B sharing accessible

PharmaSwap - battle medication wastage

Pharmacists use sharing marketplace to battle medication wastage.

Tolhuijs Design - Sustainable dutch design with a story

Quality Dutch design products made from waste

Sustainer - Digital foundation for sustainable construction

Development of software packages for circular buildings systems

Pretty Plastic Tiles - cladding materials from up-cycled PVC

Cladding tiles from 100% recycled plastic

De Circulaire Weg - The Circular Road

'Infra as a service', a trigger for true circularity

Kaumera - creating value from sewage

Biobased raw material extracted from sludge granules

Healthy Seas Socks - Sustainable fashion

Sustainable socks made partly from old fishing nets

Basilisk - Self-Healing Sustainable Concrete

Bio-based products for more durable, sustainable and waterproof concrete

Lely - Sustainable farming for the future

Providing advice and innovative solutions for an efficient farm management

MOYU - Rewritable stone paper notebooks

Sustainable Rewritable Notebooks from Stone Paper

Swapfiets - the world’s first ‘bicycle as a service’ company

Swapfiets, the smart bike subscription

CooLoo - Circular Coatings

CooLoo designs and produces high-quality ecological coating solutions.

Circular Stories - Video Brand Stories

Creation of circular stories to drive circular impact!

Leadax - Revolutionary sustainable roofing and Flashing

Circular waterproofing materials, such as flashing and flat roofing

De Afvalbak- Circular Bin Design (& Circular Transition Consultancy)

Dutch Design Waste Bins & Knowledge Partner

Searious Business - helping supermarkets move towards a reusable future

Innovative circular product & strategic business solutions

BINK lampen - Refurbished lighting are lights for life

BINK: vintage lamps fully circular!

Tiny Library - Circular platform for baby products

A library model provides a range of baby products as a service to parents.

Flocus(TM) kapok fiber the biodegradable and circular fiber that will help us plant more trees and regenerate the planet.

Meet the Kapok fiber: natural fibers for sustainable textile materials

Greentom - The greenest stroller on planet earth

The next generation of sustainable child buggy!

Renewd - Giving a second life to electronic devices

Green options for acquiring electronics!

Better Future Factory - Futureproof Packscan

Helping brands to make packaging future proof

Brushkeeper with Ecobrush - sustainable paintbrush

Bruch-Keeper makes painting fun, easy and sustainable!

BlueCity – Circular incubator

From swimming paradise to model city

CHAPLIN: The green road to a circular future

Accelerate the transition to a circular biobased industry.

Veolia - Finish Quantum product

Postconsumer recycled plastic in packaging.

Red Orka - A baby romper revolution

Monthly subscription for 100% organic cotton baby rompers.

Bluecon - Decentralized Small Scale Wastewater Solutions

Solutions which keep water circulating.

SNEW Telecom - Circular telecom and IT with a social heart

How to give a second life to your business IT infrastructure.

Join the Pipe - City Water

Filtered tap-water in a reusable bottle.

Excess Materials Exchange - The Digital Platform

Where to exchange any type of excess material across industries

Plastic bottles, metal packaging and drink cartons get a second life

PMD business recycling by Renewi

Veolia - Wijzonol paint buckets

100% Post Consumer Recyclates buckets

The Swapshop – exchanging fashion items

Swapping is the new shopping

Healthy Seas– from waste to wear

Nylon fishing nets are regenerated together with other nylon waste

Grown bio - Naturally grown materials: Mycelium

Grows material from mycelium and rest-streams based upon natural principles

Circular Clockworks & Renewi - Circular Watches

Watches made from discarded refrigerators and TVs and shoe production waste

Beautiful Cups & Renewi – From coffee cup to paper products

Coffee cups are given a second life and rainforests are supported

Arapaha

Circular Durable Goods made out of Advanced Biobased Materials

CuRe Technology - Low energy molecular polyester recycling

Creating a fully circular polyester chain

Waste2Wear - innovative textiles made from recycled plastics

100% traceable sustainable textiles

Wolkat - full service processing of discarded textile

Discarded clothing as a raw material for new products

LENA the fashion library

First online and offline fashion library in the Netherlands

Ahrend - creating sustainable working environments

Designing and manufacturing quality products, which can be reused endlessly

Circulus B.V. – from waste stream to raw materials

Circular products made from plastic and biomass waste streams

Coolrec & KPN - Skating medals made of old mobile phones

Will your old mobile soon hang around a skating champion's neck?

Circularise - supply chain transparency for circular economy

Material traceability in the plastic value chain

Van de Sant - Comfortable sustainable furniture

Furniture made from recovered ocean-bound plastics and waste streams

Race Against Waste: inspiring everybody to participate in the transition to the circular economy in a fun, easy and practical way

Educational competition between primary schools to collect e-waste

Renewi & PeelPioneers - New materials from citrus peels

Producing raw material for cellulose and pectin

Vanhulley - New products made of recycled company clothing

Circularity in textiles to support socially disadvantaged women

Studio Wae - Circular Modular Rugs

Making scalable beautiful products from residual flows

Biorizon - the profitable way to bio-aromatics

Shared Research Center developing innovative chemical processes

CLEAR RIVERS - litter traps

Fish plastic out of rivers

Werflink - sharing construction equipment and materials

Results from a successful pilot in Belgium

Green Serendipity - Bioplastics for packaging and products

Circular concept development and consultancy

Renewi - Recycling mouth masks

Facemask gets a second and third life

MycoTEX - 3D produced sustainable textiles from mushrooms roots

Mushroom roots that can be turned into sustainable and compostable garments

Schijvens - 100% recycled corporate clothing

From worn textile to sustainable uniforms

Dr2 New Economy - Circular wood in the built environment

Reusing beams from a demolished building

Recycle Sint - Toolkit for toys swap markets

Why buy new toys if you can swap?

City Deal Circular City

Bringing together 9 cities, 3 Ministries and 3 knowledge parties

Groningen Seaports - Circulair Cluster Delfzijl

An innovative circular cluster and ongoing sustainable investments

The Blue Connection - Circular strategy simulation

Learning by doing

Dutch Harvest – sustainable crop and compostable packaging

Hemp Tea from Dutch soil where all parts of the plant are used

PaperWise – wise with waste

PaperWise gives waste a second life

FIBI-buffer – sustainable product protection

Reusable, biobased, compostable plastic alternative

BE O Lifestyle - products from plants for a climate-positive future

A water bottle made from sugar cane residual material

Vibers - Biobased materials from elephant grass

Making the switch from traditional materials to organic

Fruitleather – from fruit to leather-like material

Discarded fruit as a starting point

Denimtex - Jeans on the wall

A product that is not only circular but also functional.

WEPA – circular solutions

15,000 tons of drink cartons to be recycled

SEW-EURODRIVE – gearing up manufacturing

A major player in the development of motion control & industrial gearboxes.

De Fruitmotor – circular fruit cultivation

Transforming surplus fruit into high-end regional products.

DutchSpirit – recyclable workwear

A new kind of recyclable fabric specifically for workwear.

Tarkett – Lime-based carpet tiles

Upcycling of lime from drinking water.

The Ocean Cleanup – Saving the sea from plastic

Developing advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic.

Schut Paper – Residual fiber as raw material

Paper that can be reused 7 times over.

WasteBoards - Skateboarding on recycled bottle caps

Ever wondered what to do with 1,000 scrapped bottle caps?

PCAF - measuring the carbon footprint of investments and loans

Dutch financial institutes develop open-source methodology

Instock - Reducing food waste

Delicious restaurant meals from rescued food

Zero Waste Lab - Waste as a currency

Just 27% of the waste in Amsterdam is separated, unlike the rest of the ...

The Mobile Factory - building with purpose

From construction debris into bricks

Kromkommer – Combating food wastage

One major reason why fruit and vegetables are wasted is the extreme ...

Leapp - ICT refurbishment

Leapp refurbishes Apple products and offers ICT equipment with a ...

Upp! Circular Plastic Factory

Building materials made from local plastic waste

The IMPACT method - TNO and Beter Bed

A method for evaluating circularity

Raw Materials Scanner – key indicators on materials dependency

Sustainability risk assessments of raw materials in complex supply chains.

Residual Value Calculator - encouraging reuse of construction products

In a context when circular economy actions are increasingly discussed, ...

Port of Rotterdam - Cooperation is key for the transition

DyeCoo Textile Systems - Water and Chemical free textile dyeing

Textile dyeing with no water needed

SweepSmart - Turning waste into happiness

European waste management solutions tailored to local context

The Calcite Factory - processed calcite for a Circular Face Scrub

The Calcite Factory is an innovative facility where calcite – a ...

DRIVE - Biocomposite bicycle bridge

The Province of Fryslân (in the Netherlands) has a high circular ...

Ocean Sole - from flip flop to art

Greendish - Sustainable Menu Engineering

Floow2 - World's Reset Button

Schoonschip – a sustainable floating community

A new neighborhood has arrived in the north of Amsterdam. Located in a ...

Auping - Circular mattresses with ambition

Royal Auping is one of the Dutch leaders in circular economy

Modulo Resource and Recovery Centres - Modular environmental waste depots

Bundles - Washing without waste

SmartCrusher - Recycles concrete sustainably

Recovering cement stone from concrete rubble

EMMA Safety Footwear – sustainable safety shoes

Fully circular line of work and safety footwear

Fairphone – a durable, ethical and smart mobile phone

MUD Jeans - recycling jeans, a world without waste

Dutch fashion entrepreneur Bert van Son decided to put a stop to the ...

Fibersort – Processing textile fibres for reuse

20 million tons of post-consumer textiles provide incredible opportunities

ReBlend and Ahrend - Responsible seating furniture

Upholstery fabric made of 100% recycled textile

Venlo City Hall

Bio-Based Bridge – Reducing use of fossil raw materials

Liander/RAU - Finding common ground in circular collaboration

Circular Design by RAU arquitecture

NS Dutch railways - Circular fast track

For the past 20 years, the NS Dutch national railways’ double-decker ...

Madaster - Attaching circular value to building materials

Rijkswaterstaat - Circular innovations

Fair Meter - Preparing for a future-proof energy transition

A fair meter is a smart energy metre, made from responsibly sourced, ...

SNEW – Adding value to waste

Planet Earth’s raw materials are running out. In 20 years’ time, over ...

CIRCO - Creating business through circular design

Bollegraaf - Automated circular solutions

Leading manufacturer of recycling equipment

ZERO BRINE – From industrial saline waste water to clean water and minerals

DSM-Niaga - Recyclable carpets & technology

Fully recyclable carpet material

Interface - Carpets made from disregarded fishnets

Replacing raw materials and saving the wildlife

The Great Bubble Barrier

A sustainable fish-friendly technology to mitigate marine pollution

Van Werven Plastics Recycling - Clean plastics as raw materials

High-quality raw materials from post-consumer hard plastics

Perpetual Plastic Project - Mobile lab recycles plastic in 3D printer

Ioniqa - Developing 'everlasting' plastic

From coloured PET waste into high-quality colourless 'virgin' PET

Vitens - Water as a source of the Circular Economy

The Vegetarian Butcher - Curb the cravings of meat lovers

Jaap Korteweg decided to become a vegetarian after the outbreaks of ...

The Waste Transformers - Turning food waste into value on-site

Businesses wanting to tackle the issue of their organic waste had ...

Heineken Green Circles

Partnership to make the region a global example for circular economy

Surplus Food Factory - Salvages food waste

Producing high quality food products for retail and catering

Protix - Nature and technology working together

Nature and technology working together

Rotterzwam - Spread ideas, inspire others

Transforming coffee grounds to mushrooms!

Pharmafilter - Converting hospital waste water

C-Bèta - Circular breeding ground

C-Bèta is a circular breeding ground in a former farm near Schiphol ...

Black Bear Carbon - Second life for discarded tires

Texperium - Towels from recycled material

A front runner of post-consumer textile recycling

Phario - bioplastics from waste water

Bioplastic with excellent technical properties produced by bacteria

Philips Healthcare - Refurbished Systems

Closing the Loop – Pragmatic solutions for Sustainable ICT

Adding circularity to mobile phone use

FosVaatje - Your urine as fertilizer

Park 20|20  ̶ The world's first Cradle to Cradle inspired work environment

Dutch Awearness - Circular workwear

Textile company Dutch Awearness has created the first circular textile ...

Rabobank - Circular Economy Challenge

Fashion for Good

Global platform for sustainable innovation in the fashion industry

Plastic Whale

Plastic fishing trips in Amsterdam’s canals