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By replacing single-use formats with circular alternatives, the approach helps reduce demand for virgin material production and associated environmental impacts. The solution also supports broader economic and systemic benefits, including job creation in manufacturing, logistics, and reverse logistics operations required to maintain reuse loops. As adoption increases, network effects strengthen the viability and efficiency of circular packaging systems. 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This directly supports circular resource flows in battery systems and reduces pressure on raw material extraction. In terms of climate impact, the project has already enabled the reuse of more than 120,000 batteries, preventing over 750,000 kilograms of CO2 emissions associated with battery production. These savings are achieved through both material reuse and reduced demand for newly manufactured batteries.\u003Cbr />\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The solution also improves resource efficiency by recovering and reusing individual battery cells, optimising the use of embedded materials and extending product lifetimes. Combined with expanded e-bike and e-scooter charging infrastructure, this supports modal shifts away from private cars, reinforcing broader urban decarbonisation goals.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Urban mobility systems are increasingly strained by high levels of private car use, contributing to congestion, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. While e-bikes and e-scooters offer a cleaner alternative, their adoption is often limited by insufficient charging infrastructure in public and semi-public spaces. At the same time, large volumes of lithium-ion batteries reach end-of-life each year, creating growing environmental and resource challenges. These batteries are often underutilised in their second life or prematurely recycled, despite retaining significant residual capacity. Without effective reuse pathways, valuable materials and embedded energy are lost, contributing to unnecessary waste generation. Cities, therefore, face a dual challenge: enabling scalable electric micromobility infrastructure while also addressing the environmental impact of battery waste and improving resource efficiency within energy storage systems.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>rEcharge is a Slovenian cleantech initiative developing cost-effective, sustainable charging stations for city e-bikes and e-scooters. The system is designed for easy installation and integrates high-capacity battery packs made from recycled lithium-ion cells, supported by IoT connectivity for monitoring, management, and energy provisioning.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>To address these challenges, rEcharge has developed a modular charging station system that integrates recycled lithium-ion battery packs and connects to existing urban infrastructure such as streetlight poles. This enables rapid deployment without the need for extensive new grid connections or construction. The system uses next-generation IoT connectivity, including narrowband communication technologies, to enable real-time monitoring, energy management, and provisioning. This allows operators to optimise usage, track performance, and ensure efficient distribution of stored energy across charging points.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>By utilising repurposed battery cells, the system stores and supplies energy during peak usage periods while promoting fair consumption practices through controlled power delivery after initial charging periods. This extends battery lifespan and improves overall system efficiency while reducing reliance on newly manufactured storage systems.\u003C/p>",[333,336],{"name":334,"type":153,"value":335},"Learn more about Reusable Technologies","https://www.reusable-technologies.com/",{"name":152,"type":153,"value":198},"2026-06-09T09:29:06.255Z",{"id":339,"type":110,"cta":16,"cta_link":16,"created_at":340,"updated_at":341,"owner_id":86,"owner_relationship":342,"views":343,"owner":344,"image":346,"article_locations":353,"article_industries":362,"view_count":343,"like_count":106,"collection_count":370,"content":371},"0SZ9","2026-06-08T08:28:00.095Z","2026-06-22T10:44:56.086Z","partner",24,{"id":86,"type":88,"owner_id":89,"about":90,"job_title":16,"url":16,"linkedin":16,"email":16,"staff_of_id":16,"organisation_id":86,"organisation":345},{"id":86,"name":95,"link":117},{"id":347,"link":348,"alt":349,"source":350,"created_at":351,"updated_at":352,"article_id":339,"image_profile_id":16,"banner_profile_id":16},"cmq4y7nye000bse01bsmi0nd5","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/k6Gnxw9B4vLY-nSR.jpg","Photo from Photo by Jaime Bishara on Unsplash","Photo by Jaime Bishara on Unsplash","2026-06-08T08:28:00.134Z","2026-06-09T09:22:54.614Z",[354,360],{"article_id":339,"location_id":131,"created_at":355,"updated_at":355,"location":356},"2026-06-08T08:28:00.166Z",{"id":131,"type":357,"name":358,"color":359,"parent_location_id":16,"created_at":132,"updated_at":16},"region","Europe","#7B3D93",{"article_id":339,"location_id":216,"created_at":355,"updated_at":355,"location":361},{"id":216,"type":129,"name":219,"color":16,"parent_location_id":131,"created_at":176,"updated_at":16},[363],{"article_id":339,"industry_id":364,"created_at":365,"updated_at":365,"industry":366},"construction_materials_and_products","2026-06-08T08:28:00.149Z",{"id":364,"name":367,"description":368,"sector":369},"Construction Materials and Products","Producing building materials and finished and semi-finished building products for construction","construction_and_infrastructure",1,{"id":372,"score":106,"body":373,"status":155,"article_id":339,"created_at":384,"updated_at":385,"published_at":16},"-xlo",{"title":374,"outcome":375,"problem":376,"summary":377,"solution":378,"attachment":379},"Upcycling waste materials into modular housing solutions","\u003Cp>Circular Life demonstrates how upcycling and modular design can support more circular approaches within the construction and textiles value chains. By transforming discarded materials into functional housing solutions, the initiative contributes to reducing waste generation and lowering demand for new construction materials.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The project also highlights the potential for circular construction models that prioritise flexibility, rapid deployment, and material reuse. Through its modular container housing, Circular Life showcases how buildings and products can be designed to remain adaptable while retaining the value of materials already in circulation.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Looking ahead\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>As Circular Life continues to expand its approach to modular housing and material upcycling, participation in CircularInvest has provided opportunities to strengthen the company's business capabilities, build connections and support its long-term development.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>‘I would say that there was no specific moment that changed everything, but all of them added up and made us a better company, helped us, connected us better, and just made us evolve and move in a better direction’.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>-Marin Zver, Circular Life\u003C/em>\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The construction sector is one of the world’s most resource-intensive industries, accounting for significant material consumption, waste generation, and greenhouse gas emissions. Conventional building practices rely heavily on virgin raw materials such as concrete, steel, plastics, and timber, contributing to environmental degradation and carbon-intensive supply chains. At the same time, large volumes of construction materials are discarded even though they retain functional value. Many of these materials are difficult to reintegrate into mainstream production systems and are instead landfilled, incinerated, or downcycled into lower-value applications. Housing construction can also be time-consuming, expensive, and inflexible, particularly in contexts requiring temporary, mobile, or rapidly deployable structures. These challenges highlight the need for alternative building approaches that reduce material demand while increasing adaptability and circularity within the construction sector.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Circular Life is a Slovenian initiative focused on upcycling existing materials into functional products and modular housing solutions. The company develops movable container housing units constructed entirely from repurposed materials, reducing the need for virgin resource extraction while extending the lifespan of materials that would otherwise become waste. \u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Circular Life addresses these challenges by upcycling existing materials into modular container housing and other functional products. The company repurposes materials that would otherwise be treated as waste, transforming them into movable housing units that can be rapidly installed and adapted for different uses. The container housing solutions are designed for fast deployment, with placement possible in under one hour and construction limited to structures below four metres in height. By relying entirely on repurposed materials rather than newly produced inputs, the approach reduces demand for virgin resources while extending the useful life of existing materials.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>In addition to material reuse, the modular design allows for flexibility and customisation, offering users greater design freedom compared with more standardised temporary housing systems. This approach supports circular construction principles by prioritising reuse, adaptability, and resource efficiency throughout the building process.\u003C/p>",[380,382],{"name":381,"type":153,"value":381},"https://www.cpu-reuse.com/",{"name":383,"type":153,"value":198},"https://www.circularinvest.eu/PublicProjects/PublicProjectItem?title=Circular-Life","2026-06-09T09:22:49.141Z","2026-06-09T09:22:54.675Z",{"id":387,"type":110,"cta":16,"cta_link":16,"created_at":388,"updated_at":389,"owner_id":86,"owner_relationship":113,"views":343,"owner":390,"image":392,"article_locations":397,"article_industries":405,"view_count":343,"like_count":106,"collection_count":370,"content":419},"H8Sj","2026-06-08T11:48:59.734Z","2026-06-22T01:20:19.412Z",{"id":86,"type":88,"owner_id":89,"about":90,"job_title":16,"url":16,"linkedin":16,"email":16,"staff_of_id":16,"organisation_id":86,"organisation":391},{"id":86,"name":95,"link":117},{"id":393,"link":394,"alt":167,"source":84,"created_at":395,"updated_at":396,"article_id":387,"image_profile_id":16,"banner_profile_id":16},"cmq55e57x000jse01odf4zyhy","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/xBX4vSkjqlnhUE-l.jpg","2026-06-08T11:48:59.757Z","2026-06-09T09:13:19.977Z",[398,401],{"article_id":387,"location_id":131,"created_at":399,"updated_at":399,"location":400},"2026-06-08T11:48:59.778Z",{"id":131,"type":357,"name":358,"color":359,"parent_location_id":16,"created_at":132,"updated_at":16},{"article_id":387,"location_id":402,"created_at":399,"updated_at":399,"location":403},"GBR",{"id":402,"type":129,"name":404,"color":16,"parent_location_id":131,"created_at":176,"updated_at":16},"United Kingdom",[406,413],{"article_id":387,"industry_id":407,"created_at":408,"updated_at":408,"industry":409},"software_and_communications","2026-06-08T11:48:59.767Z",{"id":407,"name":410,"description":411,"sector":412},"Software and Communications","Operating networks and software that enable the exchange and broadcasting of information, such as entertainment and internet software, television, cable, satellite or radio broadcasting systems, and cellular, wireless and/or fixed-line telecommunications services","professional_services",{"article_id":387,"industry_id":414,"created_at":408,"updated_at":408,"industry":415},"waste_management",{"id":414,"name":416,"description":417,"sector":418},"Waste Management","Collecting waste from households and businesses by means of refuse bins, wheeled bins, containers, etc., and providing treatment, incineration, materials recovery and reclamation, and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste","societal_services",{"id":420,"score":106,"body":421,"status":155,"article_id":387,"created_at":432,"updated_at":433,"published_at":16},"Fh9x",{"title":422,"outcome":423,"problem":424,"summary":425,"solution":426,"attachment":427},"Making reuse as seamless as single-use through POS integration\n","\u003Cp>Recirculate Systems demonstrates how financial technology and digital infrastructure can enable large-scale shifts toward reuse-based consumption models. By removing operational barriers to deposit return and reuse tracking, the platform supports measurable reductions in single-use packaging in high-volume environments.\u003Cbr />\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The solution also contributes to behavioural change by normalising reuse within everyday consumer experiences. As adoption expands through partnerships with institutions and venues, reuse becomes increasingly embedded in routine transactions, supporting broader cultural and systemic shifts toward circular consumption. Overall, Recirculate provides a scalable foundation for reuse systems at the national level, enabling more efficient material cycles while reducing waste generation and supporting the transition away from single-use packaging across multiple sectors.\u003Cbr />\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Looking ahead\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>As Recirculate Systems continues to expand its reuse infrastructure across new sectors and venues, support from CircularInvest has helped the company strengthen how it communicates its value to both investors and commercial partners.\u003Cbr />\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>‘For me, I think CircularInvest helped us sharpen the proposition of what we’re offering both investors and commercially—in the fintech space, this is a brand new thing—so to talk this through with experts in the field who helped us sharpen that narrative was a really valuable thing for us’.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>-Alasdair Hood, Recirculate Systems\u003C/em>\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Single-use packaging and products continue to dominate high-throughput consumer environments due to their convenience, low upfront cost, and established infrastructure. Venues such as stadiums, cafés, and educational institutions generate large volumes of disposable waste, particularly from food and beverage consumption.\u003Cbr />\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Despite growing awareness of environmental impacts, reuse systems often struggle to compete with single-use alternatives because they require additional customer effort, separate return logistics, or complex deposit management. This friction limits adoption and makes it difficult to scale reuse models in fast-paced, high-volume settings. At the same time, organisations face increasing pressure to reduce waste, comply with environmental regulations, and meet sustainability commitments. However, the lack of integrated, scalable infrastructure for reuse remains a major barrier to eliminating single-use systems at scale.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Recirculate Systems is a UK-based fintech-enabled circular economy startup that reduces single-use waste by linking reusable products directly to payment transactions. Using RFID technology integrated into point-of-sale (POS) systems, the company enables automated deposit returns and seamless reuse workflows without requiring a consumer-facing app. By embedding reuse into existing payment infrastructure, Recirculate makes reusable packaging and products as convenient as single-use alternatives.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Recirculate Systems addresses these challenges by embedding reuse directly into payment transactions through RFID-enabled tracking and automated deposit management. The system links reusable items to POS infrastructure, allowing deposits to be automatically charged and refunded without additional user steps or mobile applications. This app-free model reduces friction for both consumers and operators, making reuse functionally equivalent to single-use in terms of speed and convenience. The platform is designed for integration with existing payment providers and venue operations, enabling rapid deployment across different sectors.\u003Cbr />\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Through partnerships with venues, reuse networks, and financial service providers, Recirculate is building the underlying digital and physical infrastructure required to scale reuse systems. Pilot deployments in stadiums and cafés have demonstrated the system’s ability to streamline operations while reducing reliance on disposable packaging.\u003C/p>",[428,431],{"name":429,"type":153,"value":430},"Learn more about Recirculate Systems","https://www.recirculatesystems.com/",{"name":152,"type":153,"value":198},"2026-06-09T09:13:10.183Z","2026-06-09T09:13:20.105Z",{"id":435,"type":110,"cta":16,"cta_link":16,"created_at":436,"updated_at":437,"owner_id":86,"owner_relationship":113,"views":438,"owner":439,"image":441,"article_locations":448,"article_industries":454,"view_count":438,"like_count":106,"collection_count":370,"content":463},"IUxh","2026-06-09T08:52:32.685Z","2026-06-22T09:16:24.036Z",20,{"id":86,"type":88,"owner_id":89,"about":90,"job_title":16,"url":16,"linkedin":16,"email":16,"staff_of_id":16,"organisation_id":86,"organisation":440},{"id":86,"name":95,"link":117},{"id":442,"link":443,"alt":444,"source":445,"created_at":446,"updated_at":447,"article_id":435,"image_profile_id":16,"banner_profile_id":16},"cmq6ej2w5000nse01kjqjjtwe","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/Mz0UcDbM7jkDAHWu.jpg","Photo from Revira Technologies","Revira Technologies","2026-06-09T08:52:32.734Z","2026-06-09T09:12:38.436Z",[449],{"article_id":435,"location_id":450,"created_at":451,"updated_at":451,"location":452},"PRT","2026-06-09T09:12:38.461Z",{"id":450,"type":129,"name":453,"color":16,"parent_location_id":131,"created_at":176,"updated_at":16},"Portugal",[455,461],{"article_id":435,"industry_id":456,"created_at":457,"updated_at":457,"industry":458},"home_and_office_furnishings","2026-06-09T08:52:32.810Z",{"id":456,"name":459,"description":460,"sector":184},"Home and Office Furnishings","Producing indoor products for the home and office, such as furniture, including upholstery, carpets and wall-coverings, as well as cutlery, cookware, glassware, crystal, silverware, utensils, kitchenware and household specialties",{"article_id":435,"industry_id":407,"created_at":457,"updated_at":457,"industry":462},{"id":407,"name":410,"description":411,"sector":412},{"id":464,"score":106,"body":465,"status":155,"article_id":435,"created_at":476,"updated_at":477,"published_at":16},"CdGN",{"title":466,"outcome":467,"problem":468,"summary":469,"solution":470,"attachment":471},"Advanced dismantling systems for circular material recovery\n","\u003Cp>REVIRA demonstrates how advanced dismantling technologies and digital traceability can enable circular value chains for complex, multi-material products. By increasing recovery rates and improving material quality, the solution contributes to reducing landfill dependency and associated emissions. The impact potential is significant: in Portugal alone, REVIRA’s approach could help avoid more than 450,000 tonnes of waste annually and reduce approximately 71,000 tonnes of CO2e per year, by diverting mattress waste from disposal and enabling higher-value material recovery.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Beyond environmental benefits, the approach supports the creation of new circular value chains by enabling a consistent supply of high-quality secondary raw materials. This can stimulate economic activity in recycling, remanufacturing, and circular product design while improving resource efficiency across sectors. Overall, REVIRA represents a scalable model for transforming complex post-consumer waste into traceable, high-value inputs for industry. By combining automation, material intelligence, and digital infrastructure, the initiative supports the transition toward a more circular and resource-efficient economy across Europe.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Looking ahead\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>As REVIRA continues to develop the infrastructure needed for circular material recovery, support from CircularInvest has helped the company navigate the complex partnerships, technologies and business considerations required to scale its solutions.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>‘We are building a circular infrastructure, and it is not only about funding but is very much about getting the right connections and orchestrating a lot of partners and especially putting many puzzle pieces together. It means you need to understand the IP situation, and this was a very good thing from CircularInvest to understand the IP credibility and predictability’.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>-Mateusz Wielopolski, REVIRA Technologies\u003C/em>\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Mattresses, foam products, and composite materials used in automotive and furniture applications represent some of the most challenging waste streams in Europe. These products are complex to dismantle, often combining multiple bonded materials that are difficult to separate using conventional recycling methods. As a result, large volumes of these products are sent to landfill or incineration, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, waste, and unnecessary environmental impacts. At the same time, recyclers face increasing pressure to recover materials efficiently while meeting stricter regulatory requirements for traceability, reporting, and material recovery.\u003Cbr />\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Another key challenge is the shortage of high-quality secondary raw materials that can replace virgin inputs in industrial supply chains. Without scalable systems for identification, separation, and traceability, valuable materials embedded in post-consumer products remain underutilised.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>REVIRA Technologies is a Portuguese circular technology company developing intelligent dismantling and material detection systems for complex waste streams such as mattresses, foam products, and automotive components. The company enables the recovery of high-quality, traceable secondary raw materials by combining automated dismantling with advanced material identification and digital traceability systems. \u003C/p>","\u003Cp>REVIRA addresses these challenges through a combination of intelligent dismantling systems, advanced material detection technologies, and digital traceability infrastructure. The company’s solutions enable precise separation of materials from complex products such as mattresses and foam-based components, improving recovery rates and material quality. Its cloud-based platform supports full lifecycle tracking of recovered materials, ensuring transparency and compliance with regulatory frameworks such as EPR schemes and Digital Product Passport requirements. This enables stakeholders across the value chain to verify material origins and recovery pathways.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>By integrating automation, sensing technologies, and digital data systems, REVIRA facilitates efficient dismantling processes while ensuring that recovered materials meet quality standards for reuse in new products. The system is designed to be scalable across multiple waste streams and industries, including textiles, furniture, and automotive interiors.\u003C/p>",[472,475],{"name":473,"type":153,"value":474},"Learn more about Revira","https://revira.tech/",{"name":152,"type":153,"value":198},"2026-06-09T09:11:34.817Z","2026-06-09T09:12:38.530Z",{"id":435,"type":110,"cta":16,"cta_link":16,"created_at":436,"updated_at":437,"owner_id":86,"owner_relationship":113,"views":438,"owner":479,"image":481,"article_locations":482,"article_industries":485,"view_count":438,"like_count":106,"collection_count":370,"content":490},{"id":86,"type":88,"owner_id":89,"about":90,"job_title":16,"url":16,"linkedin":16,"email":16,"staff_of_id":16,"organisation_id":86,"organisation":480},{"id":86,"name":95,"link":117},{"id":442,"link":443,"alt":444,"source":445,"created_at":446,"updated_at":447,"article_id":435,"image_profile_id":16,"banner_profile_id":16},[483],{"article_id":435,"location_id":450,"created_at":451,"updated_at":451,"location":484},{"id":450,"type":129,"name":453,"color":16,"parent_location_id":131,"created_at":176,"updated_at":16},[486,488],{"article_id":435,"industry_id":456,"created_at":457,"updated_at":457,"industry":487},{"id":456,"name":459,"description":460,"sector":184},{"article_id":435,"industry_id":407,"created_at":457,"updated_at":457,"industry":489},{"id":407,"name":410,"description":411,"sector":412},{"id":491,"score":106,"body":492,"status":155,"article_id":435,"created_at":496,"updated_at":497,"published_at":16},"awsn",{"title":466,"outcome":467,"problem":468,"summary":469,"solution":470,"attachment":493},[494,495],{"name":473,"type":153,"value":474},{"name":152,"type":153,"value":198},"2026-06-09T09:09:57.717Z","2026-06-09T09:11:17.074Z",[]]