Case studies and articles

Carbon Engineering is a Canadian firm which has developed a direct air capture and a fuel

A team of chemists from George Washington University have developed a technology to economically convert atmospheric CO₂ directly into highly valued carbon nanofibers

4URSPACE connects architects, general contractors, engineers, photographers, real estate agents, and many other professionals to retailers who are building new retail spaces.

Bentley Motors has announced that it is installing the UK’s largest roof-mounted solar panel system.

Bin2Barrel converts plastic back into oil. The company takes plastic feedstock that is polluted and unable to be recycled and transforms them into a low-sulphur diesel.

In Philadelphia, BLT Architects started an adaptive reuse project to convert a parking garage into an apartment complex with 101 residential units.

Whitbread Group, the UK’s largest hospitality company, will install greywater recycling systems in all new-build hotels as part of a company-wide water management i

Fjällräven's ReKånken is a backpack made from 11 recycled PET bottles, with a mini-version made from 9 plastic bottles. 

DLL and Philips have been very successful in leasing.

FEECO has developed a technology to boost the value of chicken manure fertilizer: a round chicken manure fertilizer pellet.

Philips is engaged in a number of high profile collaborations with healthcare providers.

Belgian company Cirkle has started to expand their initial focus of organic grocery deliveries, to offering a range of reverse logistic options.

Mettler Toledo is a global provider of precision and analytical instruments such as truck scales.

Uber Rush is an on-demand delivery service started by Uber. With the Uber Rush network, users pay only for the deliveries they make.

For a gas line construction project for Puget Energy, Utility Mapping Services diverged from normal construction practice by first creating a 3D model of the existing underground and above ground i

City Digital, a Chicago-based UI LABS collaboration, announced it has developed the underlying technology components to create a new underground infrastructure mapping (UIM) platform.

The Tetra Rex Bio-based package is manufactured solely from paperboard and plastics derived from plants.

Carpets and furniture in a new traffic management post have been procured based on circular economy principles by the Dutch rail infrastructure management company ProRail.

Tomorrow Machine is a Swedish design studio based in Stockholm & Paris, specialized in package, product and food concepts.

Started two years ago, e-residency gives citizens of any nation the opportunity to set up Estonian bank accounts and businesses that use a verified digital signature and are operated remotely, onli

The Ex’tax Project is an independent foundation that strives towards a fundamental tax shift from labour to natural resource use.

In 2013, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department of Environmental Affairs of South Africa including stakeholders in the motor industry launched the electric vehicle (ev) indus

The Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition (DSGC) unites AkzoNobel, DSM, FrieslandCampina, Heineken, KLM, Philips, Shell and Unilever.

A local Noord-Holland initiative is using grass clippings to make road salt.

St Anne's Laser Cutting, a small-scale sheet metal factory in Nottingham, UK has taken the initiative to use rooftop solar panels to offset the carbon footprint of

The United States Materials Marketplace launched as a pilot project in the summer of 2015 to test the feasibility of a national exchange where traditional and no

Customers of Levi Strauss can now bring all old clothes and shoes to any Levi’s store in the U.S. The company will collect and reuse, repurpose or recycle th

Enevo provides an end-to-end solution that automates the whole planning and operations of waste and recycling logistics.

Bubble Post is specialised in first-and-last-mile delivery. The company calculates the most efficient route and vehicle for each delivery through its own IT system.

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A biodegradable polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) polymer, developed by Aquapak Polymers, effectively bypasses the difficulties of separating film from rigid plastic, and could replace multilayer packaging

Ananas Anam has developed an innovative, natural and sustainable non-woven textile called Piñatex™ made from pineapple leaves which are a byproduct of the agricultural industry.

Timberland announced a collaboration with tire manufacturer and distributor Omni United, to create a co-branded line o

InStock is a restaurant that serves dishes produced from food waste. The restaurant creates a menu that is made from 80 to 100% food waste.

Labmakelaar Benelux B.V. is a company that coordinates an online marketplace for second-hand laboratory equipment, with over 2,000 instruments in stock.

With nearly 13,000 bungalows across more than 75 parks, each Landal GreenPark is comparable to a small town.

ZigZag is a SaaS platform enabling retailers to reduce the costs and waste associated with returns whilst dramatically improving and simplifying the customer returns experience and speeding up the

Noord-Holland’s first geothermal project began in 2014 with the aim of supplying hot water to the the greenhouse farms in Agriport A7, Amsterdam.

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Alelyckan recycling park was developed as a pioneering facility, where objects perceived as waste are received, repaired, processed and sold on site. The park includes a thrift shop, a workshop for

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SYMBI project will contribute to improve the implementation of regional development policies and programmes related to the promotion and dissemination of Industrial Symbiosis and Circular Economy f

Liam is Apple's its line of robots that disassemble the iPhone 6 so that individual components can be reused to make new gadgets in the future.

It all started with a hole in Thom’s trousers which was irreparable. This lead to a strand of yarn, which turned into fabric, which turned into a jacket.

In Spring/Summer 2017 C&A was the first retailer worldwide to launch Gold Level Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certified(TM) T-shirts – designed to be recycled.

Hiut Denim will be the first jean company in the world to have a History Tag. Each jean will come with a unique number which can be registered online.