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Frouke Pieters, task manager for circular economy in the municipality of Leiden, illustrated to us how they do this. She also told us how they defined their strategy and what they will be working on in the coming years.

Earlier this month, at the European Materials and Industry forum (EMIVF) in Ghent, over thirty start-ups and growth companies met with a leading group of international venture capitalists and corporate investors through an investment and growth academy.

Ports aim to boost Flemish recycling sector

A great deal of sludge is released during the production of drinking water. Until recently, this ended up at the waste disposal site. The Interreg project NuReDrain aims to change that: “We convert the sludge into adsorbing granules that extract phosphates from our surface water.”

ECERA is a voluntary collaboration network between European RTO’s, with the aim to strengthen and integrate scientific knowledge and expertise in the field of Circular Economy from an interdisciplinary perspective.

One of the best ways for the world to build resilience against future pandemics and the impact of climate change is to move to a circular economy. This means designing products and materials from waste and pollution and keeping them in use, and regenerating natural systems so that the resources of the planet aren’t exhausted. A change in the way products are made and used could reduce the level of global greenhouse gas emissions by up to 45%, and make a critical contribution to mitigating the impending climate crisis.