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Country Germany
Region Oberbayern (DE21)
Halle 2: The secondhand store as the centre of the local circular economy

Munich has taken its ambitious waste reduction strategy to the next level by developing an innovative reuse lab and shop concept.

Country Italy
Region Liguria (ITC3)
From waste to resources: Genoa looks ahead to a circular economy

Genoa fully owns the municipal waste management company, AMIU, which over the past few years has completely rethought its strategy and organisational structure. The new strategy is now looking beyond its 40-year linear business model based on the disposal of waste in its landfill site.

Country Denmark
Region Hovedstaden (DK01)
inVALUABLE (Insect Value Chain in a Circular Bioeconomy)

inVALUABLE (Insect Value Chain in a Circular Bioeconomy) is the largest innovation project concerning insects as feed and food in Europe to date. The vision is to create a sustainable resource-efficient industry for animal protein production based on mealworms.

Country Netherlands
Region Flevoland (NL23)
UpCycle City contest

The municipality of Almere aspires to become a waste-free and energy-neutral city by 2022. The administration wants to bring the business community and knowledge institutes’ innovative power together to enable co-creation in the field of waste management and upcycling in the urban context.

Country Denmark
Region Midtjylland (DK04)
New circular business models: focus on purchases, work clothing and the textile service industries

The challenge of the City of Herning in the beginning of the project was that all new employees of the technical operations department received brand new work clothes and whenever an employee resigned the clothes were discarded, regardless of the quality.

Country Netherlands
Region Noord-Holland (NL32)
Amsterdam Circular:<br>Learning by doing

In 2015 Amsterdam commissioned an in-depth study on the potential of a circular economy. The project was the first large-scale research study in the world that uses the ‘city circle scan’ methodology.

Country Austria
Region Wien (AT13)
Smart City Vienna

Vienna is one of the most successful cities in the world when it comes to quality of life, municipal infrastructure and social innovation. Unsurprisingly, Vienna is growing! Around three million people will live in the metropolitan area in the medium term.

Country Norway
Region Oslo og Akershus (NO01)
Circular bio-resources: treatment of food waste, garden waste and sludge from wastewater

Oslo has been developing a waste management system based on circular principles to ensure separate waste collection is maximised and transform waste into secondary raw materials. To do so it has actively engaged with citizens, farmers as well as with its city’s public transportation company.

Country Estonia
Region Eesti (EE00)
Green Economy Cluster

Green Economy Cluster is developed by the Estonian Waste Recycling Competence Center.

Country Slovenia
Region Zahodna Slovenija (SI04)
Paper production<br>from invasive plants

Like many cities, Ljubljana is faced with significant overgrowth of Japanese knotweed, a plant on the list of 100 most invasive non-native species worldwide.