News / 14.07.2023

Why an Academy.Thinking Circular®? How do you implement circular economy projects? How do you design your company in a timely and sustainable manner? Climate protection, climate adaptation and the circular economy are not fiction for you, but reality, but you are looking for helpful practical tips and tricks to implement your business idea, or a sound background with which you can get your employees in the mood for your project? Then you've come to the right place, because that's why we built the Thinking Circular® Academy. It enables you and...

News / 19.06.2023

The first industrial plant for the recycling of EPS insulation materials goes into regular operation: the innovative recycling concept PSLoop enables the recycling of HBCD-containing polystyrene foams on an industrial scale and testifies to the great innovative strength of the industry. Röhrnbach/Terneuzen (NL), June 2023. After the German EPS Converters (GEC) Group rescued the Dutch PolyStyreneLoop plant from insolvency last year, it has now been able to go into regular operation. The plant, which has since gone by the name PSLoop, is the first industrial facility for recycling EPS...

News / 24.01.2023

In the Thinking Circular Podcast episode 122 „Normen für die Circular Economy“ we talked about the fact that the EU Commission has given over 100 standards back to the industry and with that comes a threat that could also affect you and your business model. You should check this out for yourself. Because, if the industry does not change its standards to circular economic models, then this will be done by the EU itself in a legal act. The EU has spoken in a clear and unambiguous language. [caption...

News / 20.01.2023

ECOLIANCE Rhineland-Palatinate and Zukunftsregion Westpfalz e.V. jointly invite to an event. On Friday, February 24, 2023, 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., the Advisory Board Chairman of Ecoliance, State Secretary Michael Hauer, Dr. Michael Lakatos, Project Manager Waste2Value and the Vice President of RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Prof. Dr. Werner Thiel will discuss the opportunities of the Circular Economy with other experts in the Rotunda of RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. You can find the program here. Circular economy and resource conservation are central fields of action in climate protection policy and, against the background...

News / 12.10.2022

The time of worldwide simultaneous crises has begun. Has the time of an ecological emergency regime also begun with it? Ulrike Herrmann, author of the book “Das Ende des Kapitalismus” (The End of Capitalism), published by Kiepenheuer&Witsch Verlag, addresses the question of what economic policies can help to prevent our economic systems from collapsing. I was interested in how Herrmann categorizes the Circular Economy in this book. Can the theory of the Circular Economy help solve the crises? Will we survive on this planet if it is applied?...

News / 23.06.2022

In a press release, the Industrieverband Hartschaum e.V. reported the reopening of the Terneuzen plant on June 23, 2022: The first industrial plant for recycling EPS insulation materials from demolition and renovation work is restarting exactly one year after its initial commissioning. A group of German EPS producers - members of the Industrieverband Hartschaum e.V. - has rescued the Dutch PolyStyreneLoop plant from insolvency. The purchase agreement was notarized last week. The Dutch PS-Loop B. V. at the Terneuzen site is now a 100% subsidiary of the German GEC...

Unkategorisiert / 22.06.2022

Zero-waste city - the concept has long since arrived in the Global South. This is also the case in the city of Cordoba, the capital of the Cordoba region in Argentina. It has set out to implement the circular economy. For the second time, an international congress called Cumbre Mundial de Economia Circular has been held there to show the public what is behind the term Circular Economy. This is a great approach, it has also received the necessary public response, because the awakening is moving forward: in...

News / 08.06.2022

Closing a loop in our digital age usually requires a digital solution. Startups or SMEs that are in the process of transforming to circularity, or aiming to do so, are quickly faced with this task. The competencies for digital solutions are often available. But how do we make this solution circular? And how do we convey the circularity of our solution in a potential grant application or pitch to an investor? The answers to these questions are digital. The software solutions to them must be circular. For this, a...

News / 17.11.2021

At the official founding meeting of the energy efficiency and climate protection network ETA-Plus Südhessen at the Darmstadt Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the members set themselves a common savings target. In the next two years, they want to avoid 1,000 tons of CO2 emissions. For the more than 20 companies, this is an ambitious goal. However, Dr. Nico Wenz from the Darmstadt Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who is overseeing the initiative, is confident that the goal can be achieved together. The experience of the last 5 years...

News / 16.09.2021

We are currently experiencing great changes: Climate change, digitalization, the Corona pandemic and weather events that destroy entire landscapes, as recently in the Ahr Valley. All this makes us feel what change means. Donella Meadows has described how, in times of change, people's fundamental ideas about who we are in this world also undergo major changes. With "Transcending paradigms" she described the changes in socially anchored attitudes, which are also the greatest levers in changing systems. Maja Göppel has written about this and described a summary of urgent...

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