Deposit Systems: Incentivizing Take-Back at Knorr-Bremse
Around 160,000 used truck parts return to Knorr-Bremse for remanufacturing each year in Europe. Thomas Meyer on a core deposit…
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Take-Back Obligation: How DERIX Makes It Work
Since 2021, every DERIX contract includes a timber take-back. How an external expert sets the buy-back price decades later, and…
Scaling Circular Construction with Digitalization
5 similar buildings in one city add up to 2,500 square meters of roof. How bundling, standard timber elements and…
Circular Construction: Environmental, Economic and Social Aspects
2,500 euros per square meter, a shell in three weeks, a healthy low-carbon floor on top. What made one Dresden…
The Business Case for Rooftop Extension
Nearly 8,000 new homes on Amsterdam's existing roofs, no new land. How selling roof rights pays for the energy retrofit…
Designing Germany’s Circular Textile EPR System
Less than 1% of German textiles become new textiles. Carina Hofmann-Wellenhof on the recycling quota, eco-modulation and PRO design 20…
Unpacking the EPR Legislation for Textiles
Sort earlier and pay less. Lawyer Alexander Sustal on how textile EPR fees, eco-modulation and 27 national schemes will reshape…
Textile Collection, Sorting & Recycling: The challenges we need to overcome
Why doesn't textile recycling pay? Louisa Hoyes on the missing business model behind collection, sorting and fiber-to-fiber recycling at scale.
How Textile EPR Will Influence Brands’ Business Model
The barrier to circular textiles is economic, not technical. Schöffel's Philipp Bonaventura on how textile EPR should reward durable, repairable…
Textile EPR in Germany: What Brands Need to Know
Who pays for circular textiles? Inside Germany's textile EPR: how producer responsibility funds collection and recycling, and why brands should…
Best Startups in Critical Raw Materials & Automated Disassembly
How four startups recover Europe's critical raw materials and automate disassembly, and why Knorr-Bremse backs them with proof-of-concept deals, not…
Circular Economy Startup Landscape 2026
Europe's circular startups crowd into bio-based inputs while critical raw materials and end-of-life recycling stay empty, and hardware funding lags…