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ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

THE BENEFITS OF A MODERN CIRCULAR ECONOMY FOR REGIONS, CITIES AND BUSINESS

Brussels, 12 October 2016 Moderator: Richard Tuffs, ERRIN

ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

ELISABETH HAMDOUCH

European Commission

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs DG GROW

• Dr. Ing. LARS PETTER MALTBY

Eyde Cluster Agder, Southern Norway

lars.p.maltby@eydecluster.com www.eydecluster.com

Circular Economy for Process Industry, Norway

• renewable energy based on hydropower
• roadmap for process industry in Norway to become CO2 negative
• R&D programs – recycling hub, bio-carbon & waste to value
• piloting and demonstration facilities

ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

• Dr. ULRICH KAMMER

PPM Pure Metals GmbH, Recylex group

Silicon Valley of Recycling – Secondary Raw Material Center Harz

Secondary Raw Material Center SRZ as an incubator for regional innovations

• Complete technological value chain:

Raw material treatment, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy

• Implementation in existing industrial areas
• Construction and operation as own company by many partners of REWIMET e. V.
• Target: 350 new direct industrial workplaces in the Goslar region

Supported by Lower Saxony and the federal ministry for economy and energy (BMWi)

Research => Innovation => Workplaces & Raw Materials Security

ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

WIKTOR KOWALCZYK

KGHM CUPRUM – Research and Development Centre Lower Silesia, Poland

wkowalczyk@cuprum.wroc.pl

Raw materials as an important element

• f circular economy
• Lower Silesia mining heritage
• post industrial waste management
• recycling and reuse of raw materials

ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Professor IAN WILLIAMS

Centre for Environmental Science, University of Sout6hampton United Kingdom

idw@soton.ac.uk

Demonstrating the Circular Economy – the ZeroWIN approach

• project demonstrating methods / strategies to eliminate wasteful

consumption of resources in industrial sectors via industrial networks

• based on a published overarching vision for Europe
• focus on 2 key waste types in 4 resource-intensive sectors
• all case studies successfully delivered
• details in “Waste and Resource Management”

ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Professor Ian Williams Centre for Environmental Science, University of Southampton United Kingdom idw@soton.ac.uk /

Demonstrating the Circular Economy – the ZeroWIN approach Key points: ~ Project demonstrating methods / strategies to eliminate wasteful consumption of resources in industrial sectors via industrial networks ~ Based on a published overarching vision for Europe ~ Focus on 2 key waste types in 4 resource-intensive sectors ~ All case studies successfully delivered ~ Details in “Waste and Resource Management”

Target Decrease of 30% GHG emissions 75% reduction of water utilisation 70% of overall reuse + recycling New construction – UK 58% 43% 93% New construction - Portugal 35% 26% 97% Refurbishment – Germany 1 19% 14% 78% Refurbishment – Germany 2 38% >100% 85% Demolition pre 1950s – UK >100% >100% 99% Demolition 1950-1980 – UK >100% 37% 99% Demolition - Portugal >100% >100% 99%

ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

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LASSE P. N. OLSEN

Aalborg Municipality, Dept. of Environment & Energy North Denmark

lo-byraad@aalborg.dk

Circular economy and Aalborg

• create local jobs and growth
• reduce dependency on imported resources from outside Europe and

increase the local economical turnover

• increase the competitive advantage of the companies
• reduce the local and global impact on the environment and the climate

ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

MEIJE GILDEMACHER

Province of Fryslân, North Netherlands

m.gildemacher@fryslan.frl www.fryslan.frl

Circular Friesland

Look at the entire system

• three part analysis
• five promising circular themes
• how it really starts
• organize public support

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TOR MARTIN LARSEN

Department of Environment & Waste Municipality of Stavanger, Norway

tor.larsen@stavanger.kommune.no

Circular economy in waste management – a practical approach

• collection of household waste
• separation and recycling into new materials
• communication
• statistics and key figures
• climate accounting

ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

SVEN ROBERT GANSCHOW

Stadtreinigung Hamburg A.d.ö.R. Germany

s.ganschow@srhh.de www.stadtreinigung.hamburg

Best Practice Examples from Hamburg:

• “Recycling Offensive”
• innovation in collection systems and logistics
• energy recovery from incineration and organic waste
• new structure of incineration plants
• planning the Centre for Resources and Energy

ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

ACTIVE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

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