Category: Instruments

Schiphol Amsterdam airport’s circular public procurement

Categories: Construction Material, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Energy, EEE, Product Service Systems, Other Fractions, Collaborative Economy

Organisation: Schiphol Airport/Schiphol Group

Main partners:

• Philips
• ENGIE Cofely

Localisation: Amsterdam/Northern Holland/The Netherlands

Summary

Schiphol Airport boosts the principles of sustainability with the goal to generate zero waste by 2030. Supporting circular economy, it made a deal with Philips Lighting, which has been working on a lighting retrofit at the airport based on a lighting-as-a-service business model. This business model puts focus on relationships via services instead of equipment selling.

Eco-island of Krk

Categories: Governance, Strategy and Planning, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Recycling

Organisation: Ponikve company – owned by Krk island’s municipalities

Main partners:

• Krk island’s municipalities

Localisation: Island of Krk/Primorsko-goranska županija /Croatia

Summary

Krk island’s municipalities and Ponikve started a new collection system, door-to-door, to increase the quality of the collection and improve the rate of reuse. As a result, Ponikve separates about 45% of the collected waste.

Wcycle in Maribor

Categories: Governance, Strategy and Planning, Biogenic fraction, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Energy, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Recycling, Water, Collaborative Economy

Organisation: Wcycle Institute – circular economy cluster of local public utility companies

Main partners:

• Municipality of Maribor
• Utility companies
  o   Snaga, public company for waste management and other municipal services, d.o.o.
  o   Energetika Maribor, public company, d.o.o.
  o   Nigrad, utility company, d.d.
  o   Mariborski vodovod, public company, d.d.
  o   Marprom, public company for urban transport, d.o.o.

Localisation: Maribor (SI)

Summary

The municipality of Maribor is involved in several actions and projects to establish a circularity of waste, recyclables, water and energy, such as the Wcycle project, creating a strategic development model for the city as an urban centre in the field of integrated management of all generated waste, surplus energy, and wastewater.

Food valley of Bjuv

Categories: Biogenic fraction, Technical and Research, Energy, Recycling, Industrial and Territorial Ecology

Organisation: Bjuv municipality

Main partners:

• FoodHills AB
• Findus Sverige AB
• Söderåsens Bioenergy AB
• Kloosterboer Sweden AB
• Air Liquide
• Ceres i Skåne AB (Ceres)
• Charkprodukter AB
• Bring AB
• Stena Recycling AB
• Eon Sverige AB
• Veolia
• Neova AB
• Öresundskraft AB
• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
• BioAgri AB (Lantmännen)
• Selleberga bageri AB
• Delikatessbageriet AB

Localisation: Bjuv/ Skåne /Sweden

Summary

The Food Valley of Bjuv (FVoB) is a cluster initiative founded by the Swedish food producer Findus Sverige AB in cooperation with the Bjuv municipality. It aims at developing innovative sustainable solutions for food production. The cluster has been created to be a meeting place for innovators and entrepreneurs to come together and develop new solutions, and to establish recycling-based production for food. Food Valley of Bjuv has currently several focus areas: sustainable food production, –green impact industrial park, onshore fish farming, greenhouse cultivation, innovative packaging industry and other related supportive industrial establishment.

Food Valley of Bjuv is also linked to innovation clusters and science parks such as Krinova Science Park (Sweden’s largest food incubator), Ideon Innovation (center for start-up businesses adjacent to the University of Lund), Food Evolution (Food Networks around Helsingborg and Food Academy, Sweden’s largest food clusters) and the Green Innovation Park Alnarp (GIPA).