REUSE
ONE PRODUCT = MANY LIVES AND OWNERS
Re-use is prolonging a material or product´s life through passing it on to new owners
RE-ZIP - CIRCULAR TERTIARY PACKAGING FORÂ WEBSHOPS
#Circular packaging model #Ecommerce
RE-ZIP is offering a reusable packaging solution to the growing e-commerce industry. RE-ZIP sells its circular packaging to a webshop, where by the goods and sent of to the consumers in the RE-ZIP bag or box. Consumers sends back the RE-ZIP packaging to RE-ZIP, who cleans and repairs the packaging, before it is sent back to the webshop. Their RE-ZIP cardboard boxes and bags comes in different sizes and are designed to be used up to 30 times. This saves the environment btw 67-88% of CO2 compared to linear products. Additionally RE-ZIP launched the packaging for private consumers in collaboration with the mail delivery distributor Postnord (source).
Read more on RE-ZIP here.
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THOMAS DAMSBO -Â GIANTS FROM SCRAB WOOD
#Arts as behavioral driver # Re-use material
World known artist and recycle activist Thomas Dambo is turning SCRAB WOOD Into giants as sculptures. Not only does he give the scrabbed wood a NEW PURPOSE, he also insists to place the giants in nature, often away from the trails triggering people to be in the wild nature, which is a lovely MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HACK, showing that Thomas Dambo has more on mind than just building giants. Each giant has its own name and story and through these unique sculptures and STORIES, Thomas Dambo adds a new dimension to circular economy: ARTS role in changing behaviour through engaging both adults and children.
Even one of his stories was published in a handmade book of trashed cardboard, and recycled paper. Totally out of the box thinking, prooving the potential for adding artists into circular innovation thinking just like the nature principle captures: "Resilience through diversity".
Read more on Thomas Damsbo and his Giants here.
EAT GRIM - SAVING UGLY FOOD FROM GOING TO WASTE
#Industry waste #Food
EAT GRIM is on a food waste mission, selling all the fruits and vegetables that are rejected by the supermarkets because of their unusual form and overproduction. And if you think this is little, guess again. 50 million tonnes of overproduced and imperfect looking but edible fruit and vegetables are wasted every year in Europe alone. EAT GRIM hacks the supermarket-way of doing business by breaking up with their beauty standards, offering a pure online and subscription based fruit&veggie box and creates a consumer movement around eating "waste" and ugly products as the new normal. Through their direct trade with farmers, EAT GRIM can: save single use packaging and deliver fresher food through cutting down on traditional supply chains. This results in fair prices for the consumers and for the farmers.
EAT GRIM is measuring the environmental impact they are having vs buying your fruits in the supermarket with their Grimdex, so far saving 714 tons of food from getting wasted (source).
Read more on EAT GRIM here.
NÆSTE - SHED SOLUTIONS FROM CONSTRUCTION WASTE MATERIALS
#Reused materials #Construction
NÆSTE is making shed solutions from high quality wood, roof tiles and steel construction waste. NÆSTE is with its prefabricated, 100% reused materials, full service circular shed a pioneering case in the Danish construction industry. Behind NÆSTE is a strong established value chain of industry partners, from selective demolition all the way to installation, all important partners contributing to the circular change in the construction industry.
Read more on NÆSTE here.
MADASTER - DIGITAL LIBRARY OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL
#Traceability #Construction
As an enabler of the circular economy, new ecosystems arrive to facilitate used materials from one life into a new. MADASTER does this by ensuring all buildings and their construction material have a material passpost made accessible through their digital platform, often automated through the use of BIM models import. These passports contain information about the quality, origins and location of materials and provide insight into the material, circular and financial (salvage) value of these properties. This can for example include data on life cycle assessment, CO2 data, financial sources, toxicity levels etc.
The material passports transforms how we view buildings from one-purposed buildings into material reservoirs. This is interesting from a circular point of view as it enables REUSE, encourages SMART DESIGN and eliminates WASTE.
Read more on the MADASTER platform here.
MATERIAL BANKS AND CONNECTORS THROUGHÂ ONLINE MARKETPLACES
#Industry waste #Material banks
New online marketplaces rise to bridge WASTE from the production with new MANUFACTURERS. By circulating materials, businesses are helping each other turn waste into profit and improve their responsibility and CO2 footprint. This can be done via simple re-use of the same material or upcycling.
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Digital material matching platform, where high-value reuse options for materials or (waste) products are matched with companies. Excess Materials Exchange not just matches but also implements the digital traces to allow for a fully circular material library. This is done through Ressource Passports (digital traceability of materials), tracking technology and valuation (financial, environmental and social impact) of materials. Read more here.
2) THE UPCYCL - material exchange service, connecting businesses with a wide range of waste materials (from leather, steel, textiles, wood to many more) used by designers and other business across many industries.
3) CIRCLE BANK - construction. Circle Bank is a digital platform, which aims to become the circular construction sector’s main collaboration hub – from design to demolition.
4) Hyve Market - B2B marketplace to help buyers and sellers connect and redistribute materials, reduce waste and create sustainable impact. Full service model, where sellers and buyers can gain: LIST of materials, MATCH between seller and buyer, ASSES sustainability impact factors and footprint as well as support on the TRANSACT.
GLOBECHAIN - REUSE MARKETPLACE FOR BUSINESS
#Reuse #B2B
Globechain is a B2B marketplace for REUSE across multiple industries, like construction, hotels, offices, medical, restaurants, and retail. Organizations no longer needing assets (like furniture, equipment, or office supplies) list them on the platform, where they’re requested and collected by other companies. Globechain makes its revenues by charging membership fees.
TOYCYCLE - RECOMMERCE PLATFORM
#Recommerce service #Toys
ToyCycle is a recommerce platform and consignment system that enables outgrown and used toys/baby gear/clothes to be shipped directly from user to ToyCycle, who inspects, cleans, repairs, photographs, advertise, resell and ship your used gear to a new owner and give the original owner back 15-80% of the sale. Only new/like new or gear in excellent condition is accepted and nothing from low-end brands. Through this full-service ToyCycle offers a convenient re-selling process for parents. Read more here.
LEGO® REPLAY - DONATION OF USED BRICKS
#Reuse through partnerships #Toys
LEGO® Replay is LEGO's® newest circular initiative to encourage owners to donate their used bricks to children’s charities. In this way LEGO® pushes the REUSE of the bricks by facilitating the collection and redistribution of LEGO® bricks into new playful hands. LEGO® bricks are already known for their high quality and longevity, but to push the planet promise LEGO® now create incentives around REUSE as well as they innovate on the material, which by 2030 should all be from sustainable ressources. LEGO® currently experiments with different sustainable ressources, being both plant-based (like sugarcane) or recycled sources (like recycled PET bottles, which LEGO® is currently testing). LEGO® sets the speed on closing its loop from design, production, use, reuse and recycling and furthermore has numerous other initiatives on sustainability, read more here. Source: LEGO® homepage
IKEA - BUY BACK SHEME FOR REUSE
#Take back model #Furniture
IKEA is on a mission to become fully circular: "We are on an exciting journey of making more from less – designing all of our products to be 100% circular, and aiming to use only renewable or recycled materials by 2030" (source).
This includes various initiatives across the value chain. The newest launched initiative is to promote the re-use of your old IKEA furniture, which you hand back, receive credits for future buy and the old furniture will be sold instore in IKEA´s Circular Hub area. To promote reuse, IKEA is also testing new ownership models such as leasing.
Read more on IKEA buy back scheme here, more here and even more here.
PATAGONIA WORN WEAR - HUBÂ FOR THE RESALE OF USED GEAR
#Resale platform #Outdoor
Patagonia is serious about circularity and has changed their value chain to be a full circular ecosystem, which besides selling new clothes also promotes how consumers can share, repair and recycle their gear to do good for the planet: "the best thing we can do for the planet is cut down on consumption and get more use out of stuff we already own" (source). Patagonia´s facilitates the RE-USE of gear, through the Worn Wear online hub. You collect your worn Patagonia gear, ship it or drop it off at at Patagonia store and you will get credit in return, which you can use for your next Patagonia buy. Read more on Patagonia Worn Wear here and more their repair here and recycle here.