- Bumble Bee Bags give reflective vests a second life (Germany)
- ECOPLAST FIBER JSC recycles PET bottles into flakes and fibers (Bulgaria)
- Kunst vom Rand e.V. design various products, e.g. out of fire hoses, old books and can tabs (Austria)
- LAVU collects and processes cooking oil which is used as biodiesel (Austria)
- New Seed upcycles used climbing gear and gives them a new life e.g. as chalkbags, belts or jewelry (Germany)
- 110 2.0 UPCYCLING UNIFORM gives used police uniforms a second life as bags, backpacks or blankets (Germany)
- Rebeutel manufactures reusable fruit and vegetable bags out of discarded curtains in social institutions (Germany)
- Finlayson, Finlayson produces rag rugs from old sheets and towels from old jeans
- InterFace, InterFace is a flooring company that offers Carpets as a service and is on a mission to run their business in a way that is restorative to the planet and creates a climate fit for life
- Kompotoi, Kompotoi produces, sells and rents out wooden toilets and turns the “Human Output” into a soil conditioner
- Leadax, Leadax offers lead composed from a stream of waste that can be re-cycled
- Schijvens, Schijvens designs, manufactures, reuses and rents out corporate clothing for the retail, logistical, construction, industrial and facility services.
- Tarkett Restart, Tarkett Restart is a program to recycle and reuse carpets
- Aquafil , Aquafil produces fashion of ocean plastic
- Betolar, Betolar turns different industrial waste streams into low carbon construction materials
- Cirplus, Cirrplus runs a global marketplace for circular plastics
- Ecolan, Ecolan receives ash from power plants and directs it for use as a raw material either for tree fertilisers or earthwork products
- Eko-Expert, Eko-Expert is utilising surplus mineral wool and turns it into recycled mineral wool for insulation materials
- Helsieni, Helsieni grows oyster mushrooms on used coffee grounds
- ICL Phosphate Recycling Unit, ICL Fertilizers Europe replaces phosphate rock with recovered and recycled phosphates
- Infinited Fiber, Infinited Fiber harnesses recycled fibers for reuse and makes new raw materials for textile products from them
- Kaffeeform, Kaffeeform uses a sustainable material made from used coffee grounds and other renewable resources to produce coffee cups
- KarmaTea, KarmaTea produces circular tea
- Kekkilä, Kekkilä manufactures compost fertiliser from organic waste
- Kierrätyskeskus, The Helsinki area recycling centre provides craft supplies made from surplus materials
- Lovia, Lovia manufactures luxury designer clothing & accessories from surplus materials
- Merijaan, Merijaan upcycles plastic waste into new products
- Netlet, Netlet collects useful surplus materials from building sites free of charge and sells them on
- Pa-Ri Materia, Pa-Ri Materia receives, refurbishes and sells large volumes of used office furniture
- Pure Waste, Pure Waste recycles waste from the textile industry into new material and garments
- Remake Ekodesign, Remake produces ranges of clothes of recycled materials
- Signify, Signify offers 3D printed luminaires based on recycled materials
- SOEX / I:CO, I:CO is a provider for collection, reuse and recycling of used clothing and shoes
- Soilfood, Soilfood extracts more value out of the side streams of industrial and agricultural processes by making recycled nutrients and soil improvers from them
- St1 , St1 takes organic waste and residues from various industries and uses them to produce ethanol, which can be used as a petrol substitute
- Stuffstr, Stuffstr reduces waste by dramatically increasing the reuse of unused stuff
- Suomen Savupiipputeollisuus, Suomen Savupiipputeollisuus manufactures chimney bricks primarily out of locally created industrial by-products
- Tracegrow, Tracegrow makes organic fertilizer out of micronutrients extracted and purified from used alkaline batteries
- Umicore, Umicore provides recycling of Materials especially Metalls
- UpCircle, UpCircle creates Cosmetics from waste
- UPM Raflatac, UPM Raflatac’s RafCycle service turns waste into raw material for paper and biocomposites
- Wear2go, Wear2go provides an alternative for the removal of end-of-life textiles
- Wilco Design GmbH Flugzeugmöbel, Flugzeugmoebel.de is a service by Wilco Design that turns aircraft parts into design furniture
- Wimao, Wimao manufactures biocomposite products from recycled materials
- Worn Again Technologies, Worn Again Technologies’ separates, decontaminates and extract polyester polymers and cellulose and turns them back into new textile raw materials
Examples of circular recovery models
