Circular Batteries: Closing the loop on EV batteries and conserving critical raw materials
Video: How do we create value through building a circular economy ecosystem? Jointly with trailblazing innovation leaders, we piloted how circular battery value chains can work and configured a value chain that can recover all critical raw materials at minimal cost.
München als Vorreiter der Kreislaufwirtschaft: Neue Start-up Landkarte für die Circular Economy
CIRCULAR REPUBLIC, dieInitiative für Kreislaufwirtschaft vonUnternehmerTUM, hat heute ihr erstes Update der2023 erstmals erschienenen Start-up Landscape fürden Bereich Circular Economy präsentiert. DieUntersuchung zeigt, dass sich speziell München zueiner führenden Region für die ...
A Path to Economic Sustainable Fashion: How the Circular Textile Business Model Is Reshaping the Industry
In today's era of growing environmental concerns and limited resources, the concept of circular business models has gained significant traction. Circular textile business models provide economic benefits through cost savings, extended product life cycles, and new revenue streams, while also addressing environmental ...
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Batteries are the basis for the mobility of the future - Our Circular Battery Project
Sustainable vehicles and batteries are the basis for the mobility of the future. Reliable and functioning recycling of traction batteries represents a central aspect for more sustainability in the emerging battery value chain for electromobility, as the increase in battery scrap and end-of-life batteries will rise ...
Landscape 2023: Start-ups Drive the Circular Economy
For the first time, CIRCULAR REPUBLIC has published a start-up landscape for the circular economy sector, showing: the circular economy is increasingly becoming the core of the business model of young companies, especially in Germany.
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Why the Circular Economy is Vital for Our Industry and How Start-ups Can Help
The linear economy model, where resources are extracted, used, and then discarded as waste, is not sustainable. The world needs a new approach, one that is based on preserving and enhancing natural capital, optimizing resource yields, and fostering economic development – circular economy. By Prof. Dr. Helmut ...
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„Circular Economy is Absolutely Exciting from an Entrepreneurial Point of View“
As founder of the sustainable fashion label Monaco Ducks, Carl Warkentin knows what it means to make your business circular. With his co-founder Julian Hermsdorf, he built one of the first genuinely sustainable textile companies in the footwear segment and has witnessed the challenges and business opportunities ...
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„Within Our Sustainability Strategy, the Circularity Concept Plays a Central Role“
Family members have run Tengelmann for over 155 years, now in its fifth generation. The family has been committed to environmental protection for more than 50 years. We spoke with CEO Christian W. E. Haub and Dr. Saskia Juretzek, Head of Sustainability, about the Group's sustainability strategy, concrete approaches ...
Battery Recycling for the Electric Future: Video Interview with Circular Start-up tozero
Batteries are omnipresent, and a future without them is unimaginable. Tomorrow's mobility, work life, and communication depend on energy storage systems containing rare earth elements. At the same time, today's crises make clear that we have to become less reliant on global supply chains. Climate change also ...
How Industries Transform Their Net-Zero Goals from a Buzzword to a Reality
Last winter was characterized by sparsely snow-covered ski slopes in the Alps, with more green than white, and the weather was even spring-like. On New Year's Day, the temperature in Switzerland rose to +20 degrees Celsius - never before has it been so high in January on the northern side of the Alps. What this has ...
"In the Context of Circular Business Models, Collaboration is Key"
We spoke with the three founding members, Dr. Matthias Ballweg, Dr. Susanne Kadner, and Niclas-Alexander Mauss, about their vision of a circular economy and concrete measures.
Impulse: Four Good Reasons Why the Circular Economy Must Become the DNA of Our Value Creation
No doubt about it - One of the great challenges of this century, ours, and future generations is to combat the climate crisis. Experts from the International Resource Panel have found that raw materials extraction and processing account for more than 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions. This figure shows the ...