Design for recycling
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Carbon Ready Reckoner
The Carbon Ready Reckoner (CRR) is an online tool specifically developed to enable interested parties in the food and drink sector to evaluate their carbon impact relating to design changes in: Packaging weight Recycled content or recycling rate Product concentration and palletisation efficiencies...
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Pack4Recycling
Pack4Recycling is an easy-to-use tool for assessing whether the packaging is recyclable or not. It also provides tips for improving the recylability through ‘design for recycling’ principles and other measures which help minimise the overall environmental impact of packaging.
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Close the Loop - Guide for a circular fashion industry
Close the Loop is a tool that guides fashion entrepreneurs through the basics of a more sustainable and circular way of working. For each phase of a fashion product lifecycle (resources, design, production, retail, consumption, end of life), the tool formulates five resource-efficient strategies...
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Sorting and recycling facilities in hotel rooms
Guests sort, hotel earns Equipping hotel rooms with recycling bins reduces overall hotel waste by 40 % Savings carry over to associated waste-management costs too Statistically, the average hotel guest throws away about two kilograms of waste - paper, plastic, cardboard and cans - every day. The...
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Ecodesigned fume cupboards save materials and costs
Safer labs, better environment! Lab specialist uses LCA and ecodesign principles to improve its production efficiency Analysis showed where material savings could be made and parts removed to cut costs € 54 040 in aluminium and steel materials saved annually in its EPD-certified fume cupboard...
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Biodegradable, handmade mattresses
Natural materials 'embedded' throughout! Bedding company improves its all-natural offer through involvement in pilot project Its recycling and 'take-back' scheme delivers 81 tonnes of material for recycling and 89 tonnes for re-use Naturalmat is an international, award-winning business that offers a...
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Systematic work on environmental responsibility, Finland
Sustainable furniture-maker in Finland flies high Ecodesign and full lifecycle thinking permeate Finnish furniture-maker's production The company has achieved a Nordic Swan Ecolabel for several products Isku is a leader in furniture know-how and industrial innovation. The company's goal is to...
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Sustainable packaging in food and drink industry
Packaging is a major part of the food and drinks sector. As awareness grows of the need to minimise the environmental impact of packaging throughout the product life-cycle, innovative companies are looking to ecodesign principles for improvements. One area of improvement is to reduce packaging...
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Applying sustainability requirements to packaging suppliers
Sustainable packaging may include packaging made from recycled (e.g. paper, plastic) or bio-based materials, reusable packaging, take-back schemes, etc. In order to save resources in line with circular economy and environmental principles, sustainable packaging issues should be integrated into...
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Packaging made from biopolymers
Biopolymer, the 'whey' forward Innovative EU project develops whey protein-based polymer New 'green' product performs as well as traditional plastics but can be easily recycled An EU-funded initiative created innovative biopolymers from cheese byproducts as a green packaging solution. This promising...
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Focus on durability in new asset building
Extending the lifetime of a product (asset) has a number of environmental advantages: less resource extraction, less energy embedded (the direct and indirect energy required to produce goods plus the energy needed to source and process raw materials they contain) and less waste generated...
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Baby clothes subscription model in Denmark
Baby clothes for the sharing generation Innovative baby clothes subscription and sharing system saves resources Reusing and ultimatley recycling clothes is at the heart of the circular economy Circular economy thinking is the cornerstone of the Danish baby clothes brand Vigga. Baby clothes like...