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EEA indicators are designed to support all phases of environmental policy making, from designing policy frameworks to setting targets, and from policy monitoring and evaluation to communicating to policy-makers...

While the industry consumes lots of trees and produces plenty of waste, grass packaging and new construction materials point toward a more sustainable path.

This report proposes a systematic analysis of all EU publications on the circular economy available in the database of the Publications Office of the European Union until December 31, 2022. Main...

The Catalogue of Wood Waste Classifications in the UNECE Region provides information about existing wood waste classifications developed by various international organizations and, at the national level...

Natural materials including farm waste can make autos and other industries more sustainable, less toxic.

Circle Economy is a social enterprise, organised as a cooperative, that seeks to accelerate the transition to circularity through the development of practical and scalable solutions and international campaigns, communications, and engagement.

Global coffee consumption has been increasing steadily for almost 30 years. With a daily average consumption of 2.7 cups of coffee per person, coffee is now Canada’s...

One man’s waste is another man’s treasure - while dairy processing waste doesn’t look or smell very nice, it’s a rich source of macro...

Dairy processing sludge (DPS) and DPS-derived secondary products such as struvite, biochar, hydrochar and ash (collectively known as SRUBIAS) are emerging as alternatives to fertilizers produced...

The reuse of usually free waste resources in urban and peri-urban farming is a common reality but serves primarily the farming community, and only indirectly the waste or sanitation service chain...