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WHAT IS CIRCE2020?

CIRCE2020 stands for Expansion of the CIRcular Economy concept in the Central Europe local productive districts.

MAKE IT CIRCULAR!

  • INDUSTRIES : This project is based on the involvement of producers that represent the way to move from theory to real production
  • SYMBIOSIS : Industrial symbiosis is a part of industrial ecology looking at the interaction and utilization of processes and flows within the industrial ecosystem such as recycling of residues for the development of new symbiosis products
  • PILOT ACTIONS : The core of the project is the test on real scale two different ways to close the loop in each area
  • CHANGE : The project aims to change the economic path from linear economy to circular economy

Aim of the circular economy…

“Closing the loop” and returning resources back into the material cycle - creating a win win approach that benefits both, the economy and the environment. The circular economy goes beyond the traditional considerations of material efficiency, recycling or the use of side streams. It revolutionises companies’ services and funding solutions, as well as their business models, while strengthening the ecosystems between industries and companies and a whole society.

What we do

The project CIRCE2020 aims to minimise waste and to keep products and resources in the economy as long as possible, facilitating intergrated redesign of industrial interactions based on the principles of a circular economy. The final goal is to introduce innovative cross-value chain waste and resource governance models, analytic tools, clean technologies and organization standards to reduce and rationalize dependencies from primary natural resources within industrial processing.

Transition towards circular economy is a core priority of the EU 2020 Strategy, particularly relevant for Central European industrial areas due to the outstanding use of primary natural resources in various production stages: processing, packaging and transportation.

Recycling rates, however, are still far from directive targets and one main reason for this is that the reuse of by-products is often performed only by companies’ indipendent initiatives. Central European countries are characterised by numerous business organisational models but the same cross-value relationships are not fully exploited for waste valorization and for reducting the use of primary natural resources.

The CIRCE2020 project aims to facilitate a larger uptake of integrated environmental management approach in five specific Central European industrial areas by changing patterns from single and sporadic company recycling interventions to an integrated redesign of industrial interactions based on the concept of circular economy.

The goal is to introduce innovative cross-value chain waste governance models and transnational analytic tools to improve capacities of concerned waste public-private sector to reduce dependencies from primary natural resources within industrial processing. The project should also provide robust evidences about environmental and economic benefits from shifting to enhanced industrial symbiosis.

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Waste plastic recycling technology

Solid composite, which made from 4-6 constituent materials with significantly different physical-chemical properties. In the process, there are many u ...

Energy recovery from the low calorific fraction (LCF) of a mechanical waste treatment plant

The material is an output flow of the local mechanical waste processing and recycling plant that produces RDF (refuse derived fuel) for industrial fue ...

Returnable packaging

Returnable packaging are sent to the upstream supplier in order to be reused for the transport of the same typology items.

Ultrafiltration + reverse osmosis + evaporation

Leachate enriched in ammonia is pretreated by an ultrafiltration system, then treated by reverse osmosis, and finally concentrated by an evaporation p ...

Fish tissue residue from fish cleanning/gutting

Main basic characteristic of mentioned waste and technology that can be used to implement CE is following. In production of canned fish, about 1020 to ...

Low Calorific Fration (LCF) of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)

Incoming MSW is pretreated mechanically (shredding, sieving, removal of metals) and split into three fractions: a high, a medium, and a low calorific ...

Solutions for stone wool insulation – Rest fraction from production process. Mix of cuts, out of standard products.

In the production of putties, adhesives and insulating masses, the share of fibrous waste is 40-50%. The products obtained are used for joining insula ...

Collection by the sewage system

The sewage system collects all the municipal and (authorized) industrial wastewater to reach the nearest wastewater treatment plant. The residues coll ...

Production of bio-char (activated charcoal from renewable and sustainable resources) and energy from waste wood

Solutions for mix plastic waste – Two solutions - Lines for the production of profiles and pallets

Improve waste packaging management

Improve waste packaging management at productive site

Reusing of packaging to contain other waste generated on-site

Packaging waste from non-domestic users (NDU) is re-used to contain other residues or wastes

Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis is equal to heat degradation. In this treatment material is exposed to high temperature, and in the absence of oxygen goes through chemical ...

Olive oil production; residue from olives after olive oil extraction (plant tissue waste)

Waste from olive oil production (grinded olive seed and olive pulp residues mixture) is rich on these active ingredients and antioxidant activity. By- ...

Wastewater derived from olive oil production

Waste from olive oil production (grinded olive seed and olive pulp residues mixture) is rich on these active ingredients and antioxidant activity. By- ...

Fish tissue residue from fish cleaning/gutting

Waste from olive oil production (grinded olive seed and olive pulp residues mixture) is rich on these active ingredients and antioxidant activity. By- ...

Fish oil derived from canned fish production. Extracted from industrial wastewater

Waste from olive oil production (grinded olive seed and olive pulp residues mixture) is rich on these active ingredients and antioxidant activity. By- ...

Fish tissue residue from fish cleanning/guttingFish oil derived from canned fish production. Extracted from industrial wastewater

Main basic characteristic of mentioned waste and technology that can be used to implement CE is following. In production of canned fish, about 1020 to ...

Salt (NaCl) extracted from industrial wastewater

Main basic characteristic of mentioned waste and technology that can be used to implement CE is following. In production of canned fish, about 1020 to ...

Multipolymer waste

Multipolymer waste generated in production and recycling processes. Not homogenous material. The materials, where it’s very difficult to recovery indi ...

Solutions for stone wool insulation – Rest fraction from production process. Mix of cuts, out of standard products.

In the production of putties, adhesives and insulating masses, the share of fibrous waste is 40-50%. The products obtained are used for joining insula ...

FIBRECARB

Absorbing the Potential of Wood Waste in EU Regions and Industrial Bio-based Ecosystems H2020-EU.3.2.4.3.

HOMEBIOGAS H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017

HyTime FP7-JTI - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Joint Technology Initiatives

HyTIME starts with a fermentation by specialist, natural bacteria which are selected because their efficient H2 production. Hydrogen and CO2 are t ...

Packaging waste from non-domestic users

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PlastiCircle – Improvement of the plastic packaging waste chain from a circular economy approach From 2017-06-01 to 2021-05-31, ongoing project

PlastiCircle aims to develop and implement a holistic process to increase recycling rates of packaging waste in Europe. This will allow to reproce ...

CRNPE - Chemical Recycling for the New Plastic Economy

CRNPE - Chemical Recycling for the New Plastic Economy From 2017-09-01 to 2018-08-31, closed project Recycling Technologies Ltd.

Chloride sludge from leather washing activities

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Leachate generated in an old landfill site for municipal solid waste.

Chemical - physical treatment (ammonia stripping)

Leachate enriched in ammonia is pretreated by settlement phase and a pre-heating system, then treated with a stripping process and added with sulphuri ...

Denitrification alternatives

Leachate enriched in ammonia undergoes a biological treatment with Annamox bacteria obtaining nitrogen gas

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