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Every year, Danes discard around 500.000 used mattresses. This is 10-12,500 tonnes of waste, which ends up in waste incinerators across the country. Circular economy for mattresses is thus far from a reality. But something can be done about it.

SOEX Recycling has completed two comprehensive batch sorting tests of post-consumer, textile waste collected from the Greater Copenhagen area.

300 tonnes of PET plastic take-away end up in the public space waste bins every year in Copenhagen. How can we move away from single-use takeaway towards closed loop reuse systems with less strain on the environment?

Participation at the LOOP Forum gave an excellent opportunity for the conference visitors and participating organizations to meet the ReYarn partners and discuss the work of developing circular value.

Join us in a discussion of new results from collection and recycling tests of mattresses from Copenhagen, Vejle, Odsherred, and Hillerød...

Following the local elections in Copenhagen in the autumn of 2021, more than 31.000 election posters were recycled into new designer lamps, pen holders, and vases.

A significant milestone is achived with the successful validation, after semi-industrial testing mimicking real-life conditions, of the prototype detection unit for digital watermarks.

Join our efforts to close the loop for diaper waste from Copenhagen and develop a recycling scheme for used diapers.

The City of Copenhagen has the ambition of increasing direct reuse of resources in 2024 by 3 times the level in 2016. Are you interested in helping achieving this goal?

As part of the LOOP Forum, the City of Copenhagen will host a seminar on circular textiles. Here, you will learn more about the results from the city’s ambitious value chain partnership “ReYarn” and listen to the debate on circular textiles of tomorrow.

The first results from the "Paint It Forward" partnership, which aims at ensuring the reuse of water-based paint residues in Copenhagen, are in. And they look promising.

If treated in the right way, post-consumer foam extracted from mattresses is suitable for mechanical recycling to bonded foam, study finds. The results indicate that foam-recycling from Danish mattresses can indeed become reality

Starting 1. February 2022, insulin pen users can return their used pens at pharmacies across Denmark

The City of Copenhagen has partnered up with three companies to test sorting food waste from residual waste for the purpose of biogas production: Using a size sorting method it is possible to separate food waste from the residual waste, study clarifies.

AIM, the European Brands Association, and the Alliance to End Plastic Waste announced today a partnership to drive the next stage of progress for intelligent waste sorting within the Digital Watermarks Initiative HolyGrail 2.0.

The potential to use image recognition algorithms coupled with modern robotics to increase the quality of recycling is enormous

Since 2016, the EU Horizon2020 funded project “FORCE” has helped Copenhagen generate detailed knowledge about plastic waste generation, collection, and treatment in Copenhagen. Now the project has come to an end and it is time to summarize the results.

SOEX and the City of Copenhagen have partnered up to develop knowledge about mechanical sorting of post-consumer textiles

We have passed the submission deadline in our Circular Innovation City Challenge and it’s time to celebrate!

Join the webinar about mattress recycling, where we gather some of the frontrunners from Denmark and the Netherlands to get an overview of the best solutions.

The City of Copenhagen has joined forces with five partners to test and showcase a transparent and circular model for post-consumer textiles.

In August 2020, City of Copenhagen engaged in a partnership with the company Beyond Coffee to test and develop a methodology for production of oyster mushrooms on a substrate of the city's garden waste.

Do you want to join circular frontrunners in exploring innovative digital and data-based solutions that can help create socially thriving, climate neutral cities?

Several major European cities have joined forces to support and act on the transition to a circular economy by signing a joint “Circular City Declaration”