Circular Market, Spain's circular economy website
Circular Market is a collaborative platform to connect companies, with the objective of helping them create value in their operations. Circular Market allows companies that the waste and by-products of one organization become the raw material of another organization. In addition, this platform allows users to connect to make joint purchases, [...]
Ecoindustry Day: December 18, 2018 at Cúbic
The II Ecoindústria Conference 2018 focuses its objectives on identifying opportunities and actions for transition towards the Circular Economy through two lines of action: individual advice and group dynamics that generate ideas, synergies and cooperation. Two ways that add up to help you innovate towards business models that allow you to reduce costs in resources and processes, and the generation of [...]
Public tender: technical assistance service to implement a pioneering Circular Economy program
The Economic Development Agency of the CON has issued a public tender to implement the program to promote the green and circular economy in the metropolis of Barcelona. This program aims to promote the practices of industrial symbiosis, stimulating contact and intermediation between companies to #promote innovative collaborations in the metropolitan area. In this [...]
A plastic is created from vegetable waste that can be recycled, composted and biodegraded in the marine environment
This new material is obtained from vegetable waste (such as potatoes or carrots) and can be used in the manufacture of containers such as bottles or trays for food and drinks. Aware of the environmental impact of waste in nature, and of the need to bet on prevention in all areas, TheCircularLab, [...]
The call for subsidies for the treatment of industrial waste has been published
The call for grants has been opened for the implementation of prevention projects, preparation for the reuse and recycling of industrial waste, in a competitive competition regime. The processing, resolution and awarding of the grants provided for in this call, as well as the conditions, the assessment criteria, the requirements [...]
Catalonia Ecodesign Award for the year 2019
The Diario Oficial de la Generalitat has published the decision on the call for the Catalonia Ecodesign Award for the year 2019, which has been signed by the Minister for Territory and Sustainability Damià Calvet. The award is endowed with 15,000 euros in total and aims to encourage the integration of environmental aspects [...]
2018 grants for circular economy promotion projects
The call for grants for circular economy promotion projects by the Catalan Waste Agency has been published today. Characteristics (specified in the regulatory bases): Mode of participation: competitive competition Beneficiaries: private companies and groups of private companies that have at least one operating establishment located in Catalonia. The promoter of the project must be […]
Squeasy, water bottles with their own identity
Miquel and Mariona Caimary are the only distributors in Spain of these foldable and personalized bottles. Family dinners allow for many topics to be discussed and, sometimes, also to set up a company. This is the case of Miquel and Mariona Caimary, two brothers who, after discovering the Squeasy bottles brought by a cousin of theirs from Switzerland, decided [...]
2018 Environment Award in the area of the circular economy
The Department of Territory and Sustainability has announced the 2018 Generalitat de Catalunya Environment Award. It is announced in the following three categories: 1 Research, development and innovation projects of an environmental nature 2 Initiatives to protect and improve the environment 3 Protection trajectories and environmental improvement As for the first two [...]
Ecoindustry: business meetings February 6 and 13. contents
The workshops of the Ecoindustry project (which is carried out in collaboration between the Town Councils of Viladecans, Gavà and El Prat, and which aims to promote circular economy models) took place on the 6th and 13th February at the Business Support Center in Gavà, with the participation of [...]
