Aeropowder: Insulating Materials Made From Feathers
Name: Aeropowder Sector: New materials Pros: Thermally insulating material for packaging and construction, made from poultry-industry waste Characteristics: Making use of ke...
Single-use Plastics and the Automotive Industry: Upcoming Commitments for the EU
Following the report from the UN experts, on October 9th the European Council requested decisive action aimed at realising the Paris Accords, and was joined in this by the European Parliament on Oct...
The wood packaging recycling industry
The Rilegno consortium has been gathering, recovering and recycling wood from wood packaging in Italy for more than 20 years. Consortium and independent bodies have gathered and recycled around 1.8 ...
The steel packaging recycling industry
The amount of steel packaging in 2017 was 480.000 tons, and apart from a few economic oscillations, like those caused by the 2008 economic crisis, the trend of marketed steel has remained quite stab...
The aluminium packaging recycling industry
Twenty years of development and growth of separate waste collection and packaging recycling that have shown constant trends, coherent with the evolution of systems and management models that have be...
The paper packaging recycling industry
Circular economy in our DNA Recycling is the backbone of the circular economy system and the Italian paper industry is an example of best practice: used paper and cardboard coming from domest...
The plastic packaging recycling industry
Corepla’s contribution to the implementation of circular economy is articulated in various sectors. The Consortium operates according to the principles of sustainability and its three dimensio...
The glass packaging recycling industry
During the first 20 years in which the consortium was active, the amounts of glass packaging released for consumption increased by 27.6% (from 1,905,000 in 1998 to 2,430,000 in 2017), the quantity o...
Packaging recovery performances and the future of this sector in Italy
Packaging waste management in Italy The weight of packaging released for consumption in Italy has increased by 22% from 1998 to the present day, going from 10.7 to 13 million tonnes: the gr...
Sustainable development: a collective effort
The 17 sustainable development Objectives and the 169 Targets they include must be achieved by 2030; these are the result of almost three years of negotiations between the governments from around th...
CONAI and Consortium industries
1. The History of Consortium System We must take a step back to the 20th of March 1941, in order to reconstruct the legislative landscape that gave life to CONAI, the day in which the issue...
Italian collectivesystems, an idea for the planet
Naturally, maps were kept hidden since they were one of the main instruments of power, the punishment for those who stole them was death; these object were precious and often a state secret. In the ...
A Strategy for the Environment
Sergio Costa is the new Italian Minister of the Environment; he was nominated on the 1st of June of this year. He is considered one of the technical ministers of the 65th Italian governmen...
(Circular) Italy: Top of the Class
How is Italy doing in the huge circular economy challenge? The answer: not bad. This might come as a surpirse to some, but Italy is actually doing just fine. Better than many other EU countries. Per...
Bioeconomy in Italy: Adelante con Juicio
Adelante con juicio (Proceed with caution). Perhaps, the Italian Government draws inspiration from the 19th century writer Alessandro Manzoni’s famous novel “I Promessi Sposi” (The...
Capillary Circularity
Producing renewable energy automatically allows a company to be considered as a circular enterprise. What happens, however, when a large holding company in the energy sector, which has decided not t...
The Novamont Recipe
Circular economy, innovation, regeneration of territories. The Novamont recipe remains the same, but the scope widens. The company from Novara has created Celus-Bi from Mater-Bi, the mother of all b...
Ri-Generation: Renovating Objects and People
The Astelav Ri-Generation project was born to regenerate used household appliances. It is also an industrial initiative with a strong social profile. It’s different from a “repair caf&ea...
A Tyre's Sense in Music
Music is born out of silence. And silence can stem from a discarded tyre, after years spent squealing on tarmac. The project for the acoustic improvement of Parma’s Toscanini Auditorium, carri...
A Network for Circularity
To enhance knowledge of the principles and practices of the circular economy in the industrial system, Confindustria – the General Confederation of Italian Industry – is proposing a dedi...