Circular business models

By addressing product life extension, reuse, and the recycling of waste, circular business models can reduce consumption and minimise waste generation. They allow products to be continuously used, reused, sold as a service, and enable the sharing of products, rather than incentivizing a one-time purchase. A commonality and driving forces are data collection, digital tools, and design.

91% of Danish chemistry and plastic producing companies have strategic targets for reducing waste and increasing recyclability

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1 out of 5 Danes participate in activities related to the sharing economy

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In 2021, the Danish government presented an Action Plan for Circular Economy constituting a na-tional design for the prevention and management of waste towards 2032

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Mission 30 for 2030: How to Create a Design-Driven Circular Mission

Blog post by Julie Hjort, Programme Director of Sustainable and Circular transition at Danish Design Centre. The blog post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to LOOP Forum in Copenhagen and Circular City Week in New York.

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Designing for the circular economy — the Danish way

Blog post by Ditte Lysgaard Vind, founder of The Circular Way and Partnerships Director at Lendager. The blog post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to LOOP Forum in Copenhagen and Circular City Week in New York.

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Circular Economy – learnings from Denmark and the US

Blog post by Tone Søndergaard, Director of Danish Cleantech Hub, New York, and responsible for partnerships, sustainable business expansion programs, and climate change initiatives. The blog post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to LOOP Forum in Copenhagen and Circular City Week in New York.

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Mission 30 for 2030: How to Create a Design-Driven Circular Mission

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Climate partnerships

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New alliance between the Danish Ministry of Environment and the business community will strengthen biodiversity

Together with key plaeyers from the Danish business community, the Danish Ministry of Environment has formed the Biodiversity Partnership seeking to remove barriers or create incentives to help Danish companies in their voluntary efforts to protect the world's nature.

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District energy

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Aalborg CSP hands over CO2 heat pump system to client after successful test phase

After a successful test phase, which met all requirements and showed a higher COP than promised, the Danish renewable energy and storage specialist, Aalborg CSP, has commissioned yet another heat pump order. The 1.2 MW air-to-water CO2 heat pump system was handed over to the client, the Danish district heating plant Solrød Fjernvarme.

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Power-to-x

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Denmark’s first large-scale electrolyser module delivered

The European project GreenHyScale has begun the installation process of a 6 MW prototype electrolyser in the Danish green industrial park, GreenLab. The installation is an important step towards production of green hydrogen on a large scale globally.

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Bio-based circular solutions

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Arup announced as the lead partner in a Nordic Consortium to create the Nordic Blue Building Alliance

Arup will act as the lead partner of a Nordic Consortium to create the Nordic Blue Building Alliance – an initiative that will promote the use of marine-based building materials to reduce embodied carbon across the Nordic construction sector.

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Climate change adaptation

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Global climate leaders prepare the ground for an ambitious COP28 at ministerial in Copenhagen

The past two days, climate ministers and decision-makers from more than 40 countries have gathered for the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial to discuss central issues to the COP process. The discussions have laid the groundwork for accelerated climate action and ambitious results at COP28 in the United Arab Emirates in December.

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Climate change adaptation

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Climate Ministers meet in Copenhagen to set the course towards COP28

On 20-21 March, the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial will be held as the first political high-level meeting following up on COP27. The current and incoming COP presidencies of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates are hosting the meeting in the Danish capital together with Denmark. The ministerial meeting aims to lay the path to a successful COP28 delivering on the Paris agreement targets and the COP27 conclusions.

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Meet Danish circular business models professionals

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Buildings

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Milva

Milva is a digital mapping tool that finds environmentally hazardous as well as recyclable materials in existing buildings. Everything is presented in an easy-to-use online report.

Company

Offshore wind

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KJAER DATA

KJAER DATA is your preferred IT partner, when you do not have sufficient IT resources inhouse to handle your IT operation, security, infrastructure, and connectivity on a daily basis. We are always av

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Circular business models

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TheNewSort

We provide a digital solution that enable citizens to sort packaging materials correctly in their own municipality.

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Air pollution

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EIVEE

EIVEE calculates your company's entire CO2 emissions with market-leading precision across scope 1, 2 and 3. We deliver industry-leading data quality so you continuously track and validate your ent

Public Sector

Bio-based circular solutions

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Nordic Sustainable Construction

The programme Nordic Sustainable Construction is part of Nordic Vision 2030 initiated by the Nordic Ministers for Construction and Housing and works to support the Nordic countries in establishing the

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Energy efficiency

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Q-Interline

Save time, energy, raw materials, and ensure product quality. With nearly 30 years of experience, Q-Interline is your sampling expert and FT-NIR partner. We make in-line and at-line product and proces

Organisation

Bio-based circular solutions

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Kalundborg Symbiosis

Kalundborg Symbiosis is a partnership between sixteen public and private companies in Kalundborg. The main principle is that a waste stream in one company becomes a resource in another, benefiting bot

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Biomass

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M&J Recycling

M&J Recycling is one of the world’s leading suppliers of industrial waste shredders for the waste recycling industry.

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Circular business models

By addressing product life extension, reuse and the recycling of waste, circular business models can re-duce consumption and minimise waste generation. They allow products to be continuously used, reused, sold as a service, and enable the sharing of products, rather than incentivizing a one-time purchase. A commonality and driving forces are data collection, digital tools, and design.

Waste management

Successful waste management utilises the potential of waste by increasing recycling and reuse of materials while limiting the amount of waste that goes to landfill. Denmark has an efficient waste management system in place and aims to have a climate-neutral waste sector by 2030.

Circular construction

The construction sector holds one of the greatest potentials for a circular transition. The sector represents an enormous potential for reducing waste and increasing recycling and reuse. A building can be designed for circularity if it is designed to be easily decommissioned, e.g. using principles of modularity and design-for-disassembly to enable higher reuse of the building materials.