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Circular Food Production in the City: Aquaponics Provides Food for Local Markets

Commercial aquaponics represents a new agriculture option for Europe’s cities and has a large market potential. Capturing...

Circular Food Production in the City: Aquaponics Provides Food for Local Markets
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A Bottom-up Approach to Reducing Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Application of the European Union waste hierarchy and circular economy principles to electrical and electronic equipment (EEE)...

A Bottom-up Approach to Reducing Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
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The Internet of Things and the Circular Economy: Rethinking the Design of Computers and Heaters

Qarnot computing has developed a high-performance computing (HPC) service based on a decentralised cloud-based computing heater, lowering...

The Internet of Things and the Circular Economy: Rethinking the Design of Computers and Heaters
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Exploring Circular Economy Business Models in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Enabling policies and an integrated approach to material recovery can be beneficial for companies embracing circular economy...

Exploring Circular Economy Business Models in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Cargo-bikes, Conviviality and Conscious Food: Creative Partnerships and the Circular Economy

Conscious food networks are examples of circular economy systems and represent an opportunity to reduce the greenhouse...

Cargo-bikes, Conviviality and Conscious Food: Creative Partnerships and the Circular Economy
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Scaling Up Cross-sector Collaboration for a Circular Economy: Insights from Current Practice

The circular economy, which aims to decouple resource use from economic activity, can play a major role...

Scaling Up Cross-sector Collaboration for a Circular Economy: Insights from Current Practice
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Closing Material Loops: Diverting Plastic from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Between 2016 and 2020, the additive manufacturing sector is predicted to consume around 250 million tonnes of...

Closing Material Loops: Diverting Plastic from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
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The Role of Fiscal Incentives in the Transition to a Circular Economy: The Case of the Emilia-Romagna region

Public policies for waste regulation, particularly fiscal levers, can enable transition to a circular economy, but require...

The Role of Fiscal Incentives in the Transition to a Circular Economy: The Case of the Emilia-Romagna region
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INSPIR’ECO: Applying Circular Economy Principles to Industrial Parks

Increasing the competitiveness of eco-industrial parks (EIPs) is an important driver for the adoption of industrial and...

INSPIR’ECO: Applying Circular Economy Principles to Industrial Parks
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Industry 4.0: A Key Enabler of the Circular Economy

Digitisation activities associated with Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things are prompting a step change in...

Industry 4.0: A Key Enabler of the Circular Economy