Showcases

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

E-waste Race - local collection of old electronic devices

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 - share construction equipment and materials

Online match-platform for construction companies to reduce waste

Green Serendipity - Renewable Carbon Plastics 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 & plastic bottles 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

Leadax - Circular building materials out of PVB-waste

Turning plastic waste into high quality waterproofing products

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 bottle - From oil plastic to bioplastic

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 – recycling carton

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

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

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

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

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

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 organic waste into value on-site

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

Heineken Green Circles

Surplus Food Factory - Salvages food waste

Producing high quality food products for retail and catering

Protix - Nature and technology working together

Rotterzwam - Spread ideas, inspire others

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

BlueCity – Circular incubator

An inspiring local accelerator

Texperium - Towels from recycled material

A front runner of post-consumer textile recycling

Phario - bioplastics from waste water

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

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