GREENCYCLE to become a RegioStar 2020!

The final conference of the INTERREG Alpine Space Project GREENCYCLE will take place on the 5^th of March 2020 in Maribor/Slovenia in Hotel City Maribor (Ulica kneza Koclja 22, 2000 Maribor).

In a pilot project in Bavaria the winter road clearance service is to become more environmentally friendly by using recycled salt. Instead of specially produced brine, leftover saltwater from the Develey Company is used. 

The new Circular Economy Action Plan will accelerate the transition towards a circular economy, reinforcing the EU’s industrial base, while contributing to fighting climate change and preserving its natural environment. The new action plan will look at the lifecycle of products and materials, ensuring sustainable resource use and tackling resource-intensive sectors such as textiles, construction, electronics and plastics. It will feed into the EU Industrial Strategy.

Mobile devices contain conflict elements like gold, toxic ones like arsenic and rare elements like indium. Natural sources of six of the elements found in mobile phones are set to run out within the next 100 years.

What is the value of a secondary product? How much are you willing to pay for a secondary raw material made available by somebody else in your territory? Economical vs Social Value?

EU recently updated the list of Critical Rare Materials (CRMs), that are now 27.

Rare earth elements are a group of seventeen chemical elements that occur together in the periodic table

The goal of circular economy is to protect our planet Earth from waste, exploitation of raw materials and climate change to ensure its habitability for present and future generations of humankind. Decoupling economic growth from resource use is one of the most critical and complex challenges today.

Waste hierarchy is a tool used in the evaluation of processes that protect the environment alongside resource and energy consumption to most favourable to least favourable actions.^[1] The hierarchy establishes preferred program priorities based on sustainability.^[1] To be sustainable, waste management cannot be solved only with technical end-of-pipe solutions and an integrated approach is necessary

The waste management hierarchy indicates an order of preference for action to reduce and manage waste, and is usually presented diagrammatically in the form of a pyramid. The hierarchy captures the progression of a material or product through successive stages of waste management, and represents the latter part of the life-cycle for each product.

All the items published in the GREENCYCLE Marketplace platform are mapped to one of the Waste Hierarchy level, so you can filtering the map and search the compelling service/offer aligned to the desired level