Best practices:
Tolk Studio
Johannes Tolk runs the Berlin based studio TOLK with a focus on the design of narrative structures. Johannes Tolk runs the Berlin based studio TOLK with a focus on the design of narrative structures...
Tolk studio
Johannes Tolk runs the Berlin based studio TOLK with a focus on the design of narrative structures.
Anna Kiryakova Atelier
ANNA KIRYAKOVA explores the manifold characteristics of the porcelain both by emphasizing its pure clarity and by presenting it in combination with wrought silver settings or in contrast to trivial material such as bicycle tubes...
Anna Kiryakova Atelier
and by presenting it in combination with wrought silver settings or in contrast to trivial material such as bicycle tubes. The unique pieces, the finger- and earrings, necklaces, bracelets or brooches are thereby never thought without the female body: Irrespective of acting as precious texture, geometric accent or organic completion, the jewelry is first of all supporting the natural beauty of the one wearing it.
The Green Fashion Tours
Green Fashion Tours creates interactive urban excursions in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg guiding people directly to the places where change happens: Our workshops and interactive tours show the behind the scenes of ethical...
The Green Fashion Tours
workshops and interactive tours show the behind the scenes of ethical fashion businesses. Transformative consumer education and personal exchange with fair fashion entrepreneurs are concepts at the core of these inspirational journeys. Our guided tours have the goal of educating the public about the environmental and social issues of the fashion industry, while presenting alternative options for an ethical consumption.The routes are based on a specific neighborhood or personal interests and cover subjects such as upcycling design, fair fashion, local production, circular economy and are offered in English, German, Italian and Spanish.Green Fashion Tours was founded 2015 combining the expertise of Anna from ‘GetChanged!’, Arianna from ‘The Upcycling Fashion Store’ and Mariangeles from ‘HolaBerlin’.
Textilhafen
Johannes Tolk runs the Berlin based studio TOLK with a focus on the design of narrative structures. Johannes Tolk runs the Berlin based studio TOLK with a focus on the design of narrative structures...
Textilhafen
Textilhafen is a part of Berlin City Mission (Berliner Stadtmission – BS) and a place where donations are holistically integrated to close the textile cycle: sorting – sales – textile upcycling. Regional textile cycles are the focus here. 882 tonnes of clothing donations were sorted for the clothing store of the Berlin City Mission 2018, providing for around 12,000 needy people. How can the remaining donations be better used? That was the question behind this new concept, because: They want to use the clothing donations in a holistic way and thus use all resources in the best possible way for people in need and our social projects. This means in the implementation at our new location: Transparent textile sorting for BS free clothing stores for homeless and needy people. This is always BS top priority. BS receives many clothing donations that are not suitable for passing on to the clothing store, for example because more clothing is needed there for men than for women. Whatever is left over here, wearable and seasonal, goes to our neighborhood shops of Komm & Sieh. The proceeds go to our charitable projects. Sustainable, holistic use: We offer a sustainable, urban, textile experimental and educational place with sewing machines and a professional loom. Cariety of workshops on textiles and upcycling for all interested parties are offered offer a. For this purpose, up cyclable textile material is used that is damaged or otherwise not suitable for wearing. Example: A large tapestry is made from old T-shirt fabric strips. For this basic idea of the sustainability of textile use, the holistic concept for Textilhafen in Storkower Strasse has not only developed so far, but is constantly evolving: All interested parties are cordially invited to participate in its development and to support us in finding innovative solutions together.
Stop! Micro Waste
STOP! Micro Waste is a non-profit organization initiated by LANGBRETT, a group of surfers and nature lovers. They link education with activities in nature to raise awareness about (micro)plastic pollution...
Stop! Micro Waste
STOP! Micro Waste is a non-profit organization initiated by LANGBRETT, a group of surfers and nature lovers. They link education with activities in nature to raise awareness about (micro)plastic pollution. With the STOP! Plastic Academy they share their (micro)plastic knowledge based on our research findings, experiences and scientific papers.Their Train-the-Trainer program enables school children and company representatives to share the acquired knowledge to their colleagues, customers and peers.
Raising awareness about microplastic pollution is fundamental, but at the same time they need hands-on solutions. They develop pragmatic filter solutions, like the Guppyfriend Washing Bag, to educate costumers about microplastic pollution. Thereby, people reflect on their buying- and washing rituals and start changing their behavior.
Geyersbach
Green Fashion Tours creates interactive urban excursions in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg guiding people directly to the places where change happens: Our workshops and interactive tours show the behind the scenes of ethical...
Geyersbach
GEYERSBACH gives used wood a second life as a unique piece of furniture. The old hallway becomes a stool, the chamber door a bench, the baseboard a shelf. The first impulse of its actions was to produce something useful from waste. From then on he wrote in the morning and built tables in the afternoon. Geyersbach used the appropriate building material on his walks in the neighborhood, after all, the head needs fresh air from time to time. He transported most of the wood with his robust bicycle. It was amazing, whole bundles of planks and fully-grown door leaves could be moved with muscle power. Shortly afterwards, the first tables of the Copenhagen #13 series appeared in the kitchens of the first customers. Soon the cellar became too narrow, and the first areas in a workshop had to be rented. The first own furniture series were created. The range of available furniture and custom-made products became wider: sideboards, side tables, showcases. It was astonishing what could be made from waste.
DingDumsDumplings
They like dumplings. Whether Chinese, Swabian or Russian – the main thing is that they should be delicious. And if they are sustainable and help to minimize food waste...
DingDumsDumplings
They like dumplings. Whether Chinese, Swabian or Russian – the main thing is that they should be delicious. And if they are sustainable and help to minimize food waste in Berlin, then our taste buds and conscience will do a somersault of joy. The new Dumplings-Joint am Görli is dedicated to precisely this combination. At DingsDums Dumplings you get homemade and sustainable dumplings. Although the shop is really small, you can’t really miss it when passing by. At the big window of DingsDums two huge D’s are sticking, behind them
Circular Berlin the Cirlular City
At Circular Berlin the knowledge on the circular economy is developed and applied it through practical projects, community building and education...
Circular Berlin the Cirlular City
At Circular Berlin the knowledge on the circular economy is developed and applied it through practical projects, community building and education. How they describe what their do: 1. We develop knowledge and practical programs on the circular economy, focusing on food & biomass, textile & fashion, the built environment, materials & products, and city metabolism. 2. We bring together and support Berlin’s circular economy actors, by connecting them through open-source tools and regular events. 3. We offer best-in-class training workshops that combine theoretical understanding with practical applications, hands-on activities, and real-world insights.
Mahlower Eins
Collective for fashion/costume: dying with natural methodes and alternative photography: cyanotype the the environmentally friendly analogue printing technique...
Mahlower Eins
Collective for fashion/costume: dying with natural methodes and alternative photography: cyanotype the the environmentally friendly analogue printing technique.
Cafe Botanico and perma garden
Directly from our own garden. This is what you get at Café Botanico in Berlin-Neukölln. Because the lovingly run farm-to-table restaurant has its own herb garden...
Cafe Botanico and perma garden
Directly from our own garden. This is what you get at Café Botanico in Berlin-Neukölln. Because the lovingly run farm-to-table restaurant has its own herb garden. An absolute speciality in the café is of course the wild herb salad. And the best thing about it: After the meal, you can explore the ingredients again in the adjacent garden directly afterwards. Here you can really get hold of what you put on your plate.
Reuse-Shop
Our ReUse-Shop Köpenick opened in September 2017 at Wilhelminenhofstr. 49, 12459 Berlin. Here you can repair and buy used and new IT equipment from PC...
Reuse-Shop
Our ReUse-Shop Köpenick opened in September 2017 at Wilhelminenhofstr. 49, 12459 Berlin. Here you can repair and buy used and new IT equipment from PC, notebook, to also smartphones. If you need spare parts, you can also get here components and ReUse-Shops employees can procure them. They are specialized in repairing notebooks and PCs, but they also try to repair everything else (smartphones, TFT, printers [laser], etc.) before they scrap the device. With their help you can your PC or notebook faster or you can do this yourself at their open workshop on Tuesdays from 6pm. They collect It devices and refurbish notebooks and smartphones and make them available for charitable purposes or sell higher quality devices. They collect as well other materials you may want to ‘get rid of’ as a customer, but you do not know where? For example, old CDs or DVDs that you have collected from magazines or burned your own backups. These are valuable raw materials which they offer in larger quantities to the reusable materials dealer.
Re-USE e.V.
The non-profit association is active in the field of nature and environmental protection, resource conservation and sustainability, promotes education and training...
Re-USE e.V
The non-profit association is active in the field of nature and environmental protection, resource conservation and sustainability, promotes education and training in the field of reuse of electrical and electronic products, supports the production of network-based cooperation structures, informs the public about the possibilities of use and participates in scientific research projects.
The aim of the association is to enable the general public to use high quality and reasonably priced used branded IT equipment and thus to promote the ReUse idea.
Komunalka Rzgów
The cooperative Komunalka Rzgów was registered in 2016 and its main task is collecting of municipal waste from residents of Rzgów...
Komunalka Rzgów
The cooperative Komunalka Rzgów was registered in 2016 and its main task is collecting of municipal waste from residents of Rzgów. In addition, the Cooperative does cleaning services (collecting waste from roadsides and ditches), development of greenery, repair of municipal roads with destructive material and courier services.
The Cooperative got in 2020 the Social and Solidarity Economy Quality Mark certificate in the category ‘The Best Employer’.
The Cooperative is one of the first ones whose municipal waste collection task was commissioned by applying in-house. In the following years a reserved tender procedure was used to award the contract, valued below the EU threshold, in order to create employment opportunities for people distant from the labour market. The tender included environmental requirements for the management of municipal waste.
Together for the environment
The cooperative Razem dla środowiska (Together for the environment) was founded in 2019 and started services of waste collection for community of Ostrowite, Powidz ...
Together for the environment
The cooperative Razem dla środowiska (Together for the environment) was founded in 2019 and started services of waste collection for community of Ostrowite, Powidz and County Hospital in Słupca. The Cooperative received concesion to dangerous waste collection (asbestos) and offers services of collection services for materials containing asbestos for the commune of Ostrowite, Słupca and Powidz. It’s mission obejmuje providing services in the field of municipal economy, satisfying the needs of the local community and raising the level of ecological awareness and shaping the ecological attitudes of the society. The cooperatives goals are: beginning the reclamation of landfill in Powidz, building own installation to recycling biowaste (composter) and building of point separate collection for municipal waste and bulky waste repair point and electricity waste.
Po-Dzielnia
Po-Dzielnia was created is 2018 and is the first freeshop and sharing economy center in Poland...
Po-Dzielnia
Po-Dzielnia was created is 2018 by a team of activists and volunteers from Poznań, Poland and is the first freeshop (a place where you can bring preloved goods and take whatever is in stock at the moment that was left there by others like you) and sharing economy center in Poland (organizing meetings and debates on zero waste philosophy and promoting upcycling through workshops and repair cafés). Our mission is not only to extend the lifecycle of consumer goods and help those in need, but also to teach people to use what they already have instead of buying everything brand-new. The project would not have been possible without the support of various public institutions, non-government organizations and private donors.
Konin
Konin is still one of the largest centers of the fuel and energy industry in Poland and starts transformation towards a climate-neutral economy...
Konin
Konin is a city located in the heart of the country on the Warta River in the eastern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Konin is famous of industrial traditions (power industry and heavy industry) – it is still one of the largest centers of the fuel and energy industry in Poland, starts it transformation to green power as biomass, sun and wind energy with its leader of green hydrogen production – ZE PAK – Zespół Elektrowni Pątnów – Adamów – Konin S.A. Konin prepares plans for changes to the Just Transition Fund (the key element of the European Green Deal) to alleviate the social and economic costs resulting from the transition towards a climate-neutral economy.
Rowerowy Poznań
Rowerowy Poznań has been active in Poznań since 1993 and its goal is to make Poznań a bike-friendly city...
Rowerowy Poznań
Rowerowy Poznań has been active in Poznań since 1993 and its goal is to make Poznań a bike-friendly city. The organization works to build a coherent system of bicycle transportation and promotes bicycles in everyday journeys of Poznań citizens. It assumes a holistic and long-term view on mobility with daily cycling as an important element of a well-planned transportation system.
GS1
GS1 is a part of is part of the European Brands Association, pioneering digital watermarks for smart packaging recycling in the EU...
GS1
GS1 is a part of the European Brands Association (over 85 companies and organisations from the complete packaging value chain), pioneering digital watermarks for smart packaging recycling in the EU (better sorting and higher-quality recycling rates for packaging in the EU, to drive a truly circular economy). Digital watermarks are imperceptible codes, the size of a postage stamp, covering the surface of a consumer goods packaging and they can encode a wide range of attributes such as manufacturer, SKU, type of plastics used and composition for multilayer objects, food vs. non-food usage, etc. The digital watermark can be detected and encoded by a standard high-resolution camera on the sorting line a waste sorting facility, which then – based on the transferred attributes – is able to sort the packaging in corresponding streams. This would result in better and more accurate sorting streams, thus consequently in higher-quality recyclates benefiting the complete packaging value chain.
Magazzini Sociali
Magazzini Sociali is a place where is packed all the food recovered in suparmarkets and shop that would be thrown away, and delivered to poor people in the territory of the Province of Potenza.
Magazzini Sociali
Magazzini Sociali is a place where is packed all the food recovered in suparmarkets and shop that would be thrown away, and delivered to poor people in the territory of the Province of Potenza. Is a food hub. Furthermore they produce abeer from the dread bread the income from which are used to finance the delivery activity.
Magazzini Sociali solves the problem of the waste of food and the need of food of poor people by organization of a well done system of collection, package and delivery of the food.
More info: www.magazzino sociali.it
Yuman Village
Yuman, the first place in Belgium where you will only find circular and sustainable goods and services for your daily life.
Yuman village
Yuman, the first place in Belgium where you will only find circular and sustainable goods and services for your daily life.
A set of products resulting from eco-design, recycling, upcycling, short circuits, second-hand or even sharing and rental.
Products selected with care, favoring natural materials, local manufacture and quality
Complete range of circular products.
Cultureghem
A place where sharing happens in the fullest meaning of the word: eating, space and tools.
Cultureghem
The 40,000 m2 of the Anderlecht Abattoirs welcome 100,000 people every week during different markets
Is a non-profit organization that exploits the potential of this bubbling meeting place through various projects
KETMET: the largest indoor playground in Brussels, offering the PLAYBOX every Wednesday
KOOKMET: shop, cook and eat together on the best market in town
Plastic Factory
The goal is to recover a maximum of used plastic materials (waste) and recycle them in order to produce new useful and multifunctional objects.
Plastic factory
The goal is to recover a maximum of used plastic materials (waste) and recycle them in order to produce new useful and multifunctional objects. The site also makes it possible to locate the places where there is activity related to Precious Plastic throughout the world.
The first step is to collect plastic caps in the neighborhood. Then follows a process of sorting and cleaning by hand in their workshop. Caps are shredded and stored by plastic type and color. The work is done around a plastic, ergonomic, aesthetic, (multi)functional research to achieve the best result.
Woodstag
Woodstag: offers a range of ready-to-wear accessories that are both unique, elegant, customizable but above all 100% Belgian.
Woodstag
Woodstag: offers a range of ready-to-wear accessories that are both unique, elegant, customizable but above all 100% Belgian. Wood stag project has been based from the start on an ecological, local and social vision. It started by producing wooden bow ties and it is happy to be able to offer today a wide range of accessories made from recycled wood. Everything can be personalized at will.
More info: https://woodstag.be/
Aeress
Aeress plays a fundamental role in terms of the visibility of social and circular companies. One of its action is Waste reduction, reuse and recycling.
Waste reduction, reuse and recycling
AERESS offers a platform that serves to form a collaborative network between public administrations, waste managers, networks of solidarity economy entities and social insertion and associations, environmentalists, unions, etc. The strategic objectives of this association are based on working for greater public recognition of the employment and waste sector, through the promotion of social inclusion, of the three Rs, especially that of reuse and, on the other hand, increase the strength of these sectors.
AERESS, a non-profit association, was founded in 1994 and was recognized in 2010 by the Ministry of the Interior as a Social Utility Entity. It is currently presented as a state platform in which there are 40 companies dedicated to social and labor insertion and waste reuse and management, acting in a total of 14 autonomous communities and 23 provinces.
This association plays a fundamental role in terms of the visibility of social and circular companies, which allows these sectors to begin to gain strength and that government institutions pay more attention to their needs and can regulate aid to solve them. In addition, the platform allows different companies to meet and collaborate on more ambitious social and circular projects.
More info: https://www.aeress.org/
Fundació Espigoladors
Non-profit organization that seeks to reduce food waste through the use of all those fruits and vegetables that are left out of the commercial circuit .
We fight for food use
In addition to donating food to social organizations so that people in vulnerable situations can access healthy food, Espigoladors has its own brand of food products, Es Im-Perfect, they have jams, pâtés and sauces from surpluses of fruits and vegetables that have been discarded for aesthetic reasons, all with the collaboration of an innovation laboratory in favor of food use that, in addition, favors the creation of employment for people who are in a situation of social exclusion. This product can be purchased both in stores and in hotels and restaurants.
FUNDACIÓ ESPIGOLADORS is an non-profit organization that seeks to reduce food waste through the use of all those fruits and vegetables that are left out of the commercial circuit due to factors such as excess production, decline in sales or exclusion for reasons aesthetics in these foods. For this, they collaborate with local producers organizing different collections in the fields with volunteers who help to do this. Once all these foods have been collected, they are transferred to social entities that facilitate access to healthy food for people who are in a situation of social exclusion. In addition, this organization focuses on training and raising awareness of the culture of food use through campaigns, advice, training and workshops.
More info: https://espigoladors.cat/
Veolia
Heat network with biomass. Through the project Veolia and this public institution are carrying out one of the most ambitious projects in all of Spain in terms of sustainable heat energy.
Heat network with biomass (english)
Through the project with the Municipality of Móstoles, Móstoles EcoEnergía; Veolia and this public institution are carrying out one of the most ambitious projects in all of Spain in terms of sustainable heat energy. Through the use of biomass, which is a source of energy generated from the reuse through chemical processes of organic waste such as dried fruit shells or wood chips, it is possible to supply renewable, sustainable and respectful heat energy. with the environment to more than 6,500 homes in this territory of the southern area of the Community of Madrid. In addition, this service allows the reduction of costs for the inhabitants because the production of this type of energy is much less expensive to produce, therefore reducing its final price.
The social good to which this project responds is to create sustainable cities, respectful of the environment and that meet the needs of the inhabitants in a responsible manner with the environment.
Veolia is a Public Limited Company dedicated to the management of water, waste and energy services. Of French origin, it is also located in Spain, not only participating as a private company, but also collaborating with public institutions in Spanish territory.
Aeress
Aeress plays a fundamental role in terms of the visibility of social and circular companies. One of its action is Waste reduction, reuse and recycling.
Waste reduction, reuse and recycling
AERESS offers a platform that serves to form a collaborative network between public administrations, waste managers, networks of solidarity economy entities and social insertion and associations, environmentalists, unions, etc. The strategic objectives of this association are based on working for greater public recognition of the employment and waste sector, through the promotion of social inclusion, of the three Rs, especially that of reuse and, on the other hand, increase the strength of these sectors.
AERESS, a non-profit association, was founded in 1994 and was recognized in 2010 by the Ministry of the Interior as a Social Utility Entity. It is currently presented as a state platform in which there are 40 companies dedicated to social and labor insertion and waste reuse and management, acting in a total of 14 autonomous communities and 23 provinces.
This association plays a fundamental role in terms of the visibility of social and circular companies, which allows these sectors to begin to gain strength and that government institutions pay more attention to their needs and can regulate aid to solve them. In addition, the platform allows different companies to meet and collaborate on more ambitious social and circular projects.
More info: https://www.aeress.org/
Circular project shop
This clothing store offers sustainable garments from different brands that are produced with materials that allow them to be integrated back into nature at the end of their life cycle
The circular project shop
The Circular Project Shop is the first space in Madrid that is made up of a sustainable fashion store that seeks to distribute and market clothing made from recycled, sustainable and environmentally friendly materials, all of them under exclusive eco-design framed in the Economy for the Common Good. This allows the meeting between brands that meet these ethical standards and consumers who are interested in them. In addition, this clothing is manufactured in Spain, based on national laws avoiding labor exploitation.
This clothing store offers sustainable garments from different brands that are produced with materials that allow them to be integrated back into nature at the end of their life cycle without causing any damage to the environment since, Thanks to their characteristics, they can be reused, recycled or optimized.
This project seeks to promote both the production and consumption of sustainable and environmentally friendly fashion, in addition to local development, since all products are manufactured in Spain, avoiding labor exploitation and promoting decent work.
More info: https://thecircularproject.com/
Pistyles
Pistyles develops a service of maintenance and animation of parks and gardens in order to put the management of nature in the city at the service of social link and biodiversity.
Pistyles
Pistyles develops a service of maintenance and animation of parks and gardens in order to put the
management of nature in the city at the service of social link and biodiversity.
A response to the need to reappropriate green spaces in the city
The Pistyles project was created to respond to the under-utilization of ecological techniques in the
landscaping sector and to revalorize the human, social and entrepreneurial qualities of the gardener,
whose profession has become deeply technicalized in recent years and has lost its original meaning:
taking care of nature.
Pistyles has an innovative project based on an alternative and green vision of city life. This cooperative
society of collective interest (Scic) reinvents the urban well-being through gardening to improve the
living together. Its motto reflects the long-term ambition of the structure : “Garden after garden, let’s
change the city”.
Pistyles and other associations are creating a green aera for pop-up shops. The project is to buy
containers from cargo companies and rehabilitate using green construction materials (green roof,
clay and straw for isolation).
More info: http://pistyles.eu/
Le Relais
Reconciling collective interest and economic viability, integrating democracy, innovation and sustainable development in its operation and organization...
Le Relais
Reconciling collective interest and economic viability, integrating democracy, innovation and
sustainable development in its operation and organization: Le Relais bears the seeds of the social and
solidarity economy (SSE). Awarded for its unique business model, it won the 2009 Social Entrepreneur
Award from the Schwab Foundation and the Boston Consulting Group.
Le Relais fight against exclusion through the creation of local and sustainable jobs for the integration of the most experienced people. The solution is to create social jobs by collecting, sorting and recovery clothing.
More info: https://www.lerelais.org/decouvrir.php?page=collecte_et_valorisation_textile
Atelier Thierry Roche and Associates
This establishment is trying to solved the climate crisis by reusing construction materials.
Atelier: Thierry Roche and associates
Based in Lyon France, the architecture and urban planning studio is based on the idea that the future is taking shape today. The approach of the Workshop is committed, in front of the social and environmental stakes, intelligent and tangible solutions allow to give again faith and taste in the future.
This establishment is trying to solved the climate crisis by reusing construction materials. The benefits for the community is to create new ecological living environment (create composts, gardens, and reuse construction materials… ).
More info: http://www.atelierthierryroche.fr/
The Bierstan
Created in 2010, the bar-restaurant is based on two main principles: supply through short circuits and collective management by employees.
The Bieristan
Created in 2010, the bar-restaurant is based on two main principles: supply through short circuits and collective management by employees.
Following the creation of the Court-Circuit and with the idea of founding companies with identical values, Bieristan was born in Villeurbanne. The Bieristan is trying to reduce pollution by buying local distribution food.
More info: https://www.bieristan.fr/la-cooperative
WoshWosh
WoshWosh is dedicated to giving footwear a second life through its renewal, cleaning and repair.
WoshWosh
WoshWosh is a shoe-repair company whose mission is to prolong shoes’ utilisation and is dedicated to giving footwear a second life through its renewal, cleaning and repair. Average cost of purchasing new shoes is over 40 Euro. WoshWosh will clean and disinfect them starting from 4.00 EURO.
The production of one pair of shoes means the emission of as much as 14 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere and the consumption of about 50 liters of water. You can limit these processes by deciding to clean and disinfect shoes. This service is offered by WoshWosh.
WoshWosh is dedicated to giving footwear a second life through its renewal, cleaning and repair. It has been offering its services for individual customers since 2015, and since 2018 also for business customers – in the field of cleaning and disinfection of work shoes. Work shoes are mechanically cleaned and disinfected, so that even with a large number of shoes, the process is carried out very efficiently. Importantly, the cleaning offered by WoshWosh is safe for any type of safety or work shoe. This is confirmed by laboratory work by the Central Institute for Labor Protection – National Research Institute (CIOP-PIB).
Average cost a pair of shoes or work shoes in Poland is over 40 EURO. Cleaning and disinfection of shoes in WoshWosh from 4.00 EURO. Therefore, the end customer save budget approximately 36 EURO. Besides money savings, end customer saves the environment. One pair of work shoes takes around 50 years to decompose. Shoe cleaning extends their life by up to several years. Thanks to cooperation with WoshWosh, customers contribute to the ecological environment.
More info: https://woshwosh.pl
Värt
The idea of Värt was to use waste food coming from supermarkets, restaurants, food factories and prolong its life.
VÄRT
VÄRT was founded in 2016 in Gothenburg. The idea was to use waste food coming from supermarkets, restaurants, food factories and prolong its life.
They work with all types of companies, institutions, and organizations and use food waste as a tool to educate and explore the subject.
Värt uses waste food to produce new meals and design smart solutions to limit waste of food.
More info: https://www.vartsweden.com/
Houdini sportswear
Houdini is a Swedish sportswear factory. Each piece of garment is made of one and only type of textile, so that it is fully recyclable.
Houdini sportswear
Houdini is a Swedish sportswear factory. Each piece of garment is made of one and only type of textile, so that it is fully recyclable. The pieces of garment made of wool are even compostable. Every cloth is made in a way that it is possible to easy repair it, and Houdini offers the reparation service. In Houdini retail shops there is a corner where is possible to buy second hand Houdini clothes. Houdini offers in addiction the possibility to rent their clothes for shorter period.
Prolong the product life. Produce sustainable products, starting from the product design process.
Single material products. Easy to repair garments. Offering the service to rent clothes instead of buying it.
More info: https://houdinisportswear.com/en-us
Bodenxt
A Green house heated by the heat produced by servers in data centers. The heat produced in the data center is reused to produce fruit and vegetables.
Bodenxt
A Green house heated by the heat produced by servers in data centers. The heat produced in the data center is not wasted, but reused to produce fruit and vegetables. With a complex system of canalization, the heat produced by servers is used to heat a big green house. The realization of the system involved the Technical University of Luleå, and the Swedish research institution (RISE). People working in the green house are former long-term unemployed people. People living in Boden can buy fresh, locally produced vegetables and fruits.The heat is reused and not wasted.
More info: https://bodenxt.se/en/the-300-square-meter-smart-greenhouse-is-powered-by-waste-heat/
Da Matteo
Da Matteo is a café with bakery. They roast their own coffee, which beans are accurately selected from producer eco-labelled .
Da Matteo
Da Matteo is a café with bakery. They roast their own coffee, which beans are accurately selected from producer eco-labelled . The coffee is sold to other cafés in reusable buckets. The rest of the coffee is used to produce the bread, which is baked and sold in the same café.
The coffee is used in the bakery. Reusable buckets are used to sell the coffee.Limited use of water, which is substituted by the coffee in the baking process. Limitation of garbage, using reusable buckets.
More info: https://damatteo.se/
Scambiologico
The visit to Scambiologico showed how and old railways deposit has been transformed into an ecological market and venue centre built with ecological material.
SCAMBIOLOGICO
THE VISIT TO SCAMBIOLOGICO SHOWED HOW AN OLD RAILWAYS DEPOSIT HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO AN ECOLOGICAL MARKET AND VENUE CENTER BUILT WITH ECOLOGICAL MATERIALS. It solves the problem of the existence of abandoned places that can be also dangerous for the people. The solution was to renovate the structure for the social use. For the renovation of the building the organization used the recycled and renovated materials.
More info: www.scambiologico.it
RiPlastic
The plant separates parts of fridges, air conditioning and any electrical machine separating the parts for the reuse, with a very small percentage of waste (around 10%)
Ri.Plastic
The plant separates parts of fridges, air conditioning and any electrical machine separating the parts for the reuse, with a very small percentage of waste (around 10%). Reusing most of the components of the tools.
More info: http://www.riplastic.net/
Tolk Studio
Johannes Tolk runs the Berlin based studio TOLK with a focus on the design of narrative structures.
Anna Kiryakova Atelier
ANNA KIRYAKOVA explores the manifold characteristics of the porcelain both by emphasizing its pure clarity and by presenting it in combination with wrought silver settings or in contrast to trivial material such as bicycle tubes. The unique pieces, the finger- and earrings, necklaces, bracelets or brooches are thereby never thought without the female body: Irrespective of acting as precious texture, geometric accent or organic completion, the jewelry is first of all supporting the natural beauty of the one wearing it.
The Green Fashion Tours
Green Fashion Tours creates interactive urban excursions in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg guiding people directly to the places where change happens: Our workshops and interactive tours show the behind the scenes of ethical fashion businesses. Transformative consumer education and personal exchange with fair fashion entrepreneurs are concepts at the core of these inspirational journeys.Our guided tours have the goal of educating the public about the environmental and social issues of the fashion industry, while presenting alternative options for an ethical consumption.The routes are based on a specific neighborhood or personal interests and cover subjects such as upcycling design, fair fashion, local production, circular economy and are offered in English, German, Italian and Spanish.Green Fashion Tours was founded 2015 combining the expertise of Anna from ‘GetChanged!’, Arianna from ‘The Upcycling Fashion Store’ and Mariangeles from ‘HolaBerlin’.
Textilhafen
Textilhafen is a part of Berlin City Mission (Berliner Stadtmission – BS) and a place where donations are holistically integrated to close the textile cycle: sorting – sales – textile upcycling. Regional textile cycles are the focus here. 882 tonnes of clothing donations were sorted for the clothing store of the Berlin City Mission 2018, providing for around 12,000 needy people. How can the remaining donations be better used? That was the question behind this new concept, because: They want to use the clothing donations in a holistic way and thus use all resources in the best possible way for people in need and our social projects. This means in the implementation at our new location: Transparent textile sorting for BS free clothing stores for homeless and needy people. This is always BS top priority. BS receives many clothing donations that are not suitable for passing on to the clothing store, for example because more clothing is needed there for men than for women. Whatever is left over here, wearable and seasonal, goes to our neighborhood shops of Komm & Sieh. The proceeds go to our charitable projects. Sustainable, holistic use: We offer a sustainable, urban, textile experimental and educational place with sewing machines and a professional loom. Cariety of workshops on textiles and upcycling for all interested parties are offered offer a. For this purpose, up cyclable textile material is used that is damaged or otherwise not suitable for wearing. Example: A large tapestry is made from old T-shirt fabric strips. For this basic idea of the sustainability of textile use, the holistic concept for Textilhafen in Storkower Strasse has not only developed so far, but is constantly evolving: All interested parties are cordially invited to participate in its development and to support us in finding innovative solutions together.
Stop! Micro Waste
STOP! Micro Waste is a non-profit organization initiated by LANGBRETT, a group of surfers and nature lovers. They link education with activities in nature to raise awareness about (micro)plastic pollution. With the STOP! Plastic Academy they share their (micro)plastic knowledge based on our research findings, experiences and scientific papers. Their Train-the-Trainer program enables school children and company representatives to share the acquired knowledge to their colleagues, customers and peers.
Raising awareness about microplastic pollution is fundamental, but at the same time they need hands-on solutions. They develop pragmatic filter solutions, like the Guppyfriend Washing Bag, to educate costumers about microplastic pollution. Thereby, people reflect on their buying- and washing rituals and start changing their behavior.
Geyersbach
GEYERSBACH gives used wood a second life as a unique piece of furniture. The old hallway becomes a stool, the chamber door a bench, the baseboard a shelf. The first impulse of its actions was to produce something useful from waste. From then on he wrote in the morning and built tables in the afternoon. Geyersbach used the appropriate building material on his walks in the neighborhood, after all, the head needs fresh air from time to time. He transported most of the wood with his robust bicycle. It was amazing, whole bundles of planks and fully-grown door leaves could be moved with muscle power. Shortly afterwards, the first tables of the Copenhagen #13 series appeared in the kitchens of the first customers. Soon the cellar became too narrow, and the first areas in a workshop had to be rented. The first own furniture series were created. The range of available furniture and custom-made products became wider: sideboards, side tables, showcases. It was astonishing what could be made from waste.
DingDumsDumplings
They like dumplings. Whether Chinese, Swabian or Russian – the main thing is that they should be delicious. And if they are sustainable and help to minimize food waste in Berlin, then our taste buds and conscience will do a somersault of joy. The new Dumplings-Joint am Görli is dedicated to precisely this combination. At DingsDums Dumplings you get homemade and sustainable dumplings. Although the shop is really small, you can’t really miss it when passing by. At the big window of DingsDums two huge D’s are sticking, behind them.
Circular Berlin the Circular City
At Circular Berlin the knowledge on the circular economy is developed and applied it through practical projects, community building and education. How they describe what their do: 1. We develop knowledge and practical programs on the circular economy, focusing on food & biomass, textile & fashion, the built environment, materials & products, and city metabolism. 2. We bring together and support Berlin’s circular economy actors, by connecting them through open-source tools and regular events. 3. We offer best-in-class training workshops that combine theoretical understanding with practical applications, hands-on activities, and real-world insights.
Mahlower Eins
Collective for fashion/costume: dying with natural methodes and alternative photography: cyanotype the the environmentally friendly analogue printing technique.
Cafe Botanico and perma garden
Directly from our own garden. This is what you get at Café Botanico in Berlin-Neukölln. Because the lovingly run farm-to-table restaurant has its own herb garden. An absolute speciality in the café is of course the wild herb salad. And the best thing about it: After the meal, you can explore the ingredients again in the adjacent garden directly afterwards. Here you can really get hold of what you put on your plate.
Reuse-Shop
Our ReUse-Shop Köpenick opened in September 2017 at Wilhelminenhofstr. 49, 12459 Berlin. Here you can repair and buy used and new IT equipment from PC, notebook, to also smartphones. If you need spare parts, you can also get here components and ReUse-Shops employees can procure them. They are specialized in repairing notebooks and PCs, but they also try to repair everything else (smartphones, TFT, printers [laser], etc.) before they scrap the device. With their help you can your PC or notebook faster or you can do this yourself at their open workshop on Tuesdays from 6pm. They collect It devices and refurbish notebooks and smartphones and make them available for charitable purposes or sell higher quality devices. They collect as well other materials you may want to ‘get rid of’ as a customer, but you do not know where? For example, old CDs or DVDs that you have collected from magazines or burned your own backups. These are valuable raw materials which they offer in larger quantities to the reusable materials dealer.
Re-USE e.V.
The non-profit association is active in the field of nature and environmental protection, resource conservation and sustainability, promotes education and training in the field of reuse of electrical and electronic products, supports the production of network-based cooperation structures, informs the public about the possibilities of use and participates in scientific research projects. The aim of the association is to enable the general public to use high quality and reasonably priced used branded IT equipment and thus to promote the ReUse idea.
Komunalka Rzgów
The cooperative Komunalka Rzgów was registered in 2016 and its main task is collecting of municipal waste from residents of Rzgów. In addition, the Cooperative does cleaning services (collecting waste from roadsides and ditches), development of greenery, repair of municipal roads with destructive material and courier services. The Cooperative got in 2020 the Social and Solidarity Economy Quality Mark certificate in the category ‘The Best Employer’.
The Cooperative is one of the first ones whose municipal waste collection task was commissioned by applying in-house. In the following years a reserved tender procedure was used to award the contract, valued below the EU threshold, in order to create employment opportunities for people distant from the labour market. The tender included environmental requirements for the management of municipal waste.
Together for the environment
The cooperative Razem dla środowiska (Together for the environment) was founded in 2019 and started services of waste collection for community of Ostrowite, Powidz and County Hospital in Słupca. The Cooperative received concesion to dangerous waste collection (asbestos) and offers services of collection services for materials containing asbestos for the commune of Ostrowite, Słupca and Powidz. It’s mission obejmuje providing services in the field of municipal economy, satisfying the needs of the local community and raising the level of ecological awareness and shaping the ecological attitudes of the society. The cooperatives goals are: beginning the reclamation of landfill in Powidz, building own installation to recycling biowaste (composter) and building of point separate collection for municipal waste and bulky waste repair point and electricity waste.
Po-Dzielnia
Po-Dzielnia was created is 2018 by a team of activists and volunteers from Poznań, Poland and is the first freeshop (a place where you can bring preloved goods and take whatever is in stock at the moment that was left there by others like you) and sharing economy center in Poland (organizing meetings and debates on zero waste philosophy and promoting upcycling through workshops and repair cafés). Our mission is not only to extend the lifecycle of consumer goods and help those in need, but also to teach people to use what they already have instead of buying everything brand-new. The project would not have been possible without the support of various public institutions, non-government organizations and private donors.
Konin
Konin is a city located in the heart of the country on the Warta River in the eastern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Konin is famous of industrial traditions (power industry and heavy industry) – it is still one of the largest centers of the fuel and energy industry in Poland, starts it transformation to green power as biomass, sun and wind energy with its leader of green hydrogen production – ZE PAK – Zespół Elektrowni Pątnów – Adamów – Konin S.A. Konin prepares plans for changes to the Just Transition Fund (the key element of the European Green Deal) to alleviate the social and economic costs resulting from the transition towards a climate-neutral economy.
Rowerowy Poznań
Rowerowy Poznań has been active in Poznań since 1993 and its goal is to make Poznań a bike-friendly city. The organization works to build a coherent system of bicycle transportation and promotes bicycles in everyday journeys of Poznań citizens. It assumes a holistic and long-term view on mobility with daily cycling as an important element of a well-planned transportation system.
GS1
GS1 is a part of the European Brands Association (over 85 companies and organisations from the complete packaging value chain), pioneering digital watermarks for smart packaging recycling in the EU (better sorting and higher-quality recycling rates for packaging in the EU, to drive a truly circular economy). Digital watermarks are imperceptible codes, the size of a postage stamp, covering the surface of a consumer goods packaging and they can encode a wide range of attributes such as manufacturer, SKU, type of plastics used and composition for multilayer objects, food vs. non-food usage, etc. The digital watermark can be detected and encoded by a standard high-resolution camera on the sorting line a waste sorting facility, which then – based on the transferred attributes – is able to sort the packaging in corresponding streams. This would result in better and more accurate sorting streams, thus consequently in higher-quality recyclates benefiting the complete packaging value chain.
Constructa+
Constructa+ is planning to conduct a public-private project of revitalization of a post-military facility Fort 7A. Its aim is to create a model, educational urban biome, which will create a public space, accessible to all, created with respect for nature and social relations. In the biologically active area of the new Fort, a biodiverse space was assumed that will be valuable to the urban ecosystem and will at the same time have an educational function.