| Posted November 21, 2024

Advancing Your Sustainability Performance Through Targeted Use of Data: Discover Our SustainableSteps Tool!

What is SustainableSteps? SustainableSteps is an innovative self-test that helps you to analyse and improve your handling of data for a more sustainable business practice. This online tool, developed within our WertNetzWerke project, offers you the opportunity to assess various aspects of your activities and gives you valuable insights into your sustainability performance and opportunities for improvement. Why is sustainability data important? The availability and targeted utilisation of sustainability data is an important prerequisite for making your company sustainable. SustainableSteps is a tool that supports you in determining the current status of your company from the aspect of sustainability data. […]

| Posted November 20, 2024

PRECIOUS: Designing More Effective Food Waste Prevention

Our new EU Horizon project, PRECIOUS targets food loss and waste, a major contributor to global emissions, by using systems thinking to prevent rebound effects and reduce environmental impacts. Often overlooked, food waste and loss (FWL) further exacerbates food insecurity, puts a strain on waste management systems, intensifying the crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. PRECIOUS seeks to address these challenges head-on by using a systems-thinking approach to understand and mitigate the environmental impacts of FLW across the food supply chain. One of its key goals is to prevent rebound effects, situations where good intentioned measures inadvertently create […]

| Posted November 16, 2024

Your CATALYST to Sustainable Transformation Has Been Launched – Check it Out Now!

Are you a professional, entrepreneur, or student looking to sharpen your skills for sustainable transformation? Over the past two years, our CATALYST project has developed an innovative educational platform with an extensive range of courses, services, and networking opportunities to support with the knowledge and skills needed to lead the way in sustainable business transformation. In November 2024, the CATALYST project officially launched its innovative educational online platform, bringing together over 80 participants from across Europe in a hybrid event held in Wuppertal, Germany and online. The platform aims to address one of the biggest barriers for businesses in driving […]

| Posted November 7, 2024

Join the Final Conference of Our MERLIN Project on 27 November 2024: From Smart Collection to Innovative Valorisation!

Multilayer packaging, often based on PET and polyolefins, presents significant challenges for recycling due to its complex structure. The EU Horizon project, MERLIN has focused on developing cost-efficient and high-performance solutions for sorting, delaminating, and recycling multi-layer packaging materials. As the project draws to an end, we call on policymakers, waste management professionals, packaging manufacturers, or researchers involved in plastic recycling and circular economy initiatives to join our MERLIN project final conference. The conference “From Smart Collection to Innovative Valorisation” will serve as a platform for presenting the innovative solutions co-created during the project, which aim to align with the […]

| Posted November 6, 2024

The CSCP and 13 Other Organisations Call on the EU Commission to Adopt a More Comprehensive Circular Economy Policy

In the past years, the transition to a circular economy has taken centre stage in the European Union’s policy agenda. A well-functioning circular economy is a prerequisite to sustainable growth and holds one of the keys to achieving the EU’s climate neutrality target by 2050. Despite marked progress, the use of circular materials (an important circularity indicator), remains rather marginal EU-wide. With the EU appointing a dedicated Commissioner for Circular Economy for the first time, the CSCP and 13 leading civil society organisations (CSOs) and sustainable businesses call for a more comprehensive and ambitious approach to reduce raw material dependence […]

| Posted October 31, 2024

Meet Us at the European Mission Soil Week on the 14 November 2024!

The European Mission Soil Week is hosted by the European Commission on 12-13 November 2024 in Brussels, Belgium with the goal of raising awareness on the importance of protecting and restoring European soils as well as promoting more sustainable land management practices. On 14 November 2024, the CSCP will join an exclusive side event dedicated to European soil projects with our two EU Horizon projects, bioSOILUTIONS and iCOSHELLs – meet us there! At the event, CSCP’s Livia El-Khawad on behalf of the bioSOILUTIONS project and Luca Sander on behalf of the iCOSHELLs project will share more about our work in […]

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How Our KochCup Project Inspired Healthy & Sustainable Cooking

Since its launch in 2022, our KochCup project has successfully brought together young chefs, sports communities, and citizens in promoting healthy and sustainable eating. With cooking competitions, various creative workshops, and the launch of the KochCup cookbook, the project has inspired German young chefs to embrace plant-based cuisine and advocate for sustainability in gastronomy. Running ahead of and during the European Men’s Football Championship 2024, the goal of the project was to inspire and help mainstream healthy and sustainable food within the sports realm and beyond. To achieve this, the project has brought together aspiring and professional chefs, nutritional and […]

| Posted October 28, 2024

Communities of Practice to Boost Circularity on a City Level

As demographic and economic centres, cities are important players in the transition to a Circular Economy. The European Commission is increasingly putting focus on propelling the efforts of cities and regions to become more circular, reduce pollution, and curb waste. The Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI) and the CSCP have launched the CCRI Communities of Practice in an effort to better coordinate the work of numerous projects and initiatives currently working on the topic of the Circular Economy on a city level. For years, the CSCP has been engaged in supporting cities in various initiatives, including the urban circular […]

| Posted October 23, 2024

Join Our Webinar on Food Contact Regulation Compliance of MERLIN Recycled Plastics on 30 October 2024!

Food contact regulation for plastics is essential in safeguarding health and safety standards and avoiding potential risks associated with harmful substances leaching from materials into food. This is particularly relevant when using recycled plastics. Our MERLIN project has successfully developed recycled materials from multi-layer packaging waste, demonstrating compliance with the applicable food contact regulations to ensure these materials are safe for consumer use. During the upcoming webinar, on 30 October 2024, the MERLIN project team will share detailed information and offer room for exchange on the following: Enhancing Recycling Quality and Rates: Discover how MERLIN is improving the recyclability of […]

| Posted September 25, 2024

Circular Economy: The Social Side of the Story

When you think about the Circular Economy, what comes to your mind first? Chances are, it is aspects such as recycling, reusing and repairing or maybe products that are designed to last longer. Oftentimes, it is overlooked how central human behaviour is to Circular Economy. We need those who design, produce, and most of all, use the products to act in line with circular principles in order to keep the cycle intact. But what exactly is circular behaviour and how can social norms in particular support the Circular Economy? Thinking beyond reuse and repair In a nutshell, the Circular Economy […]

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