Norway is 2.4 % circular (2020) so there is substantial room for improvement. Increasing circularity will require a complete re-organisation of our society bringing challenges but also opportunities.
COASTAL Squared provides a Norwegian perspective to the H2020 project COASTAL by examining the interactions of rural and coastal areas in a Norwegian context.
The production of photovoltaic modules generates significant resource flows, much of which currently becomes waste, including silicon kerf, graphite, and silica from ingot production.
PLASTICENE will build new knowledge and address processes important for increased plastic circularity and effective plastic waste management with the aim of supporting improved plastic material utilization and protecting the environment from plastic...
Our ambition is to create a novel and comprehensive methodology that will bring together the technology development process and resulting technological change. Taking the systems perspective on global value chains, the goal is then to identify...
Climate change and economic and population growth can lead to water scarcity and increasing water demands in coastal areas. To tackle these challenges, B-WaterSmart develops and demonstrates smart technologies and circular economy approaches.
In-No-Plastic’s goal is to develop and demonstrate nano-, micro, and macro-plastic clean-up technologies in the aquatic ecosystems.
The RecirkIrRu project's goal is to demonstrate the effective extraction of valuable Iridium (Ir) and Ruthenium (Ru) from waste material into valuable intermediates for K.A. Rasmussen's further processing. The extraction will be possible by...
Åfjord Municipality wants SINTEF as a research and development partner as part of realizing the municipality's vision of being a pioneering municipality, and what this ambition will require of the municipality with regard to competence and networks...
Quick Response 4.0 develops solutions based on state-of-the-art principles and methods within Quick Response Manufacturing, digitalization and circular economy.
In the POCOplast project (Pathways to sustainable post-consumer plastics in aquaculture), SINTEF collaborates with NTNU and organizations from all parts of the value chain (NCE Aquatech, Plasto, Grieg Seafood, Empower, Norwegian Plastic Recycling...
In this study SINTEF has focuses on circular economic opportunities that are expected to have a large potential for reducing the climate gas emissions associated with Norwegian consumption and production. Over a dozen circular strategies were...
SmartFab will focus on solutions based on state-of-the-art principles and methods in areas such as digitization, circular economy and product development.
The Ion4Raw project proposes an energy-, material- and cost-efficient new mineral processing technology to recover by-products from primary sources by means of innovative Deep Eutectic Solvent (DES) ionic liquids and advanced electro recovery, in one...
Sustainable mixed urban transit system with electric and conventional buses
The EU-funded TARANTULA project aims to recover refractory metals from low-grade waste by developing a suite of cost-effective, scalable, and eco-friendly metallurgical processes. Following systematic research activities at a laboratory scale, the...
Aluminium is extensively used in food packaging because it provides a unique durability. Longer durability leads to less food wastage. The challenge is to make sure that the aluminium packaging is reclaimed and goes back into the circuit. The main...
The Norwegian business sector is under pressure to transform from at least three global trends with significant, long-term impacts: The projected drop in value creation from petroleum markets, the need to tackle climate change and other grand...