Kategorie: Aktuelles
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Zirkuläre Baustelle: Wie Berlins Nachwuchsfachkräfte lernen, Ressourcen neu zu denken
What do a freshly baked croissant and a reinforced concrete wall have in common? At first glance, very little. But both are products of resource-intensive systems that have long been optimised for efficiency rather than circularity. After exploring circular food systems at the Emil Fischer Vocational School (first post), we expanded Fit for Circular Economy (FFCE) to…
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Circular Berlin 2025 in a nutshell - Gemeinsam für eine kreisförmige Stadt arbeiten
A year shaped by collaboration, experimentation and progress As 2025 comes to an end, we look back on a year shaped by collaboration, experimentation and steady progress toward a circular city. Circular Berlin refined its strategic direction, advanced key projects across Europe, explored new impact areas and deepened partnerships that strengthen Berlin’s transition towards a…
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Von der Reparatur zu einer zirkulären Stadtgesellschaft
Repair as a Key Urban Question Electrical and electronic devices are among the largest material streams in cities today. In Berlin alone, around 23,516 tons were discarded in Berlin . Many products have ever shorter lifespans, while repairs are often perceived as too complicated or too expensive. Yet repair holds enormous potential: it saves resources,…
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Wo Ideen verbinden: Re:use - Re:think - Re:volution
The BookSprint Re:use – Re:think – Re:volution, initiated by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, brings together innovative impulses and diverse perspectives to outline what a truly comprehensive Circular Economy could look like. The contributions demonstrate how strategies on repair, textiles, social responsibility, and digitalisation interconnect to form a coherent and future-oriented system. At its core, the BookSprint…
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Aus dem Boden auf den Teller – und wieder zurück: Berlins Weg zu einem zirkulären Ernährungssystem
Food isn’t just something we eat – it’s part of a larger system that connects soil, water, climate, and communities. In Berlin, we are rethinking food through the lens of the Circular Economy: an approach that closes loops, reduces waste, and creates value at every stage. At Circular Berlin, we believe food holds the power…
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Kickstarter für die Reparaturkultur in Berlin: Die erste Repair Deal Pop-Up Woche
The Repair Deal Pop-Up Week proved that Berliners are eager to engage in hands-on, creative, and community-based sustainability initiatives. With a diverse program, strong partnerships, and valuable learnings, the event laid a solid foundation for future repair-centered activities. In July 2025, we as Circular Berlin, hosted the first-ever Repair Deal Pop-Up Week in Berlin-Kreuzberg. This…
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Die Kreislaufwirtschaft vorantreiben: Circular Berlins Innovationen 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, we at Circular Berlin reflect on a year marked by significant achievements, collaborative endeavors, and a steadfast commitment to advancing the circular economy in our city. Building upon the foundations laid in previous years, we’ve expanded our initiatives, engaged with diverse communities, and fostered innovation across various sectors. Building…
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Eindrücke von der AGYLE Live-Woche - Edition Kreislaufwirtschaft
As part of the 2024 AGYLE – African German Young Leaders in Business cohort, I had the unique opportunity to join the programme´s Live Week in Berlin, from 16th to the 20th September. The AGYLE programme is a project by Deutschland Land der Ideen that aims to connect young African and German leaders from business,…
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Zirkuläre Transformation gelingt nicht allein, sondern braucht Partnerschaften
Cities are at the center of the necessary change towards more sustainability and climate protection. Studies indicate that Circular Economy is a significant lever for reducing the climate impacts of our actions. Depending on the study, the manner of product manufacturing and usage influences 40% to as much as 80% of greenhouse gas emissions. As actors…
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Ein Austauschprogramm mit der Or Foundation aus Ghana
Between the 29th June to the 5th of July 2024 we ran a one-week exchange programme in cooperation with our partner the Or Foundation, who brought a delegation from Ghana to Berlin. The delegation was composed of designers, retailers, remanufacturing specialists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and waste management experts from the Kantamanto community. Strategically timed to coincide…
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Circular City Challenge 2.0: Nach intensiven Matchmaking starten 23 Kreislauf-Lösungen in die Umsetzung
In the Circular City Challenge 2.0, which was launched in August 2023, the 20-member jury, made up of city representatives from over 4 cities and municipalities, nominated the most promising solutions and approaches from the more than 120 submissions. From the large number of interesting projects, 23 concepts were particularly convincing in terms of making…
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RundschreibenPSP: Ausschreibung ist eröffnet
The EU pre-commercial procurement project CircularPSP launched a €5.64 million tender (Contract Notice on TED) for Suppliers to design, develop and test an innovative ‘circular economy solution’ (CE-solution) that enables municipalities and their staff as well as businesses in the local economy to apply circular practice more quickly, frequently, widely and effectively. Individual users at City and Business are empowered…
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Das kreisförmige Berlin 2023 in Kurzform
As we bid farewell to yet another impactful year, it’s time to take stock of the incredible strides we’ve made at Circular Berlin. The past twelve months have been transformative, filled with challenges, successes, and an unwavering commitment to our mission of circularity. Let’s journey through the highlights of our endeavors and contributions in 2023:…
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Herausforderung "Circular City 2023": Kommunales Matchmaking für klimaneutrale Transformation mit Lösungen der Kreislaufwirtschaft
The appeal of metropolitan areas has not waned even after the Corona years and the associated yearning for rural lifestyles: In 2021, for example, Berlin recorded a 16.5 percent increase in new residents compared with the previous year. According to a forecast by UN DESA, two out of three people will live in urban areas…
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Textiles Journey – ein interaktiver Einblick in die entsorgten Textilien auf Berlins Straßen
New Years eve in Berlin has just passed, and unfortunately (but predictably) the streets are covered in the waste that an all-out evening of fireworks leaves behind – plastic shards, wooden sticks, damp cardboard and an odd looking red dust. But look a little closer, and in amongst this you’ll see a pair of jeans…
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Das Jahr 2022 des Circular Berlin in Kürze
Circular Berlin celebrates 4 years of active involvement in the circular economy development in Berlin. Let us take a look at the main highlights and learnings in 2022, and celebrate it jointly, as without your support it would be difficult. Building a stronger community Our community of members continues to evolve as we keep on…
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Durch Bildung Impulse für eine Kreislaufwirtschaft setzen
It’s back-to-school time again, and because education is top-of-mind for many of us at the moment, we thought it would be a great time to discuss the role of education when it comes to the circular economy, provide a bit more insight about what the education team has been up to so far, and also…
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Circular City Challenge: Die Gewinner stehen fest.
Within the framework of the Circular City Challenge, answers were found to the challenges of the transformation to a circular urban system. BERLIN, May 19, 2022 – Circular City Challenge 2022 With the Circular City Challenge, Circular Berlin, Circular Munich, Materialkreislauf und Circonnact set themselves the aim of helping to shape the transition from a…
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Mehrweg in der Gastronomie - Steigerung des Bekanntheitsgrades und der Akzeptanz von Mehrweg in Berlin.
It is almost as if you can hear the giant sigh of relief as the weather gets nicer, the masks come off, and the people of Berlin opt to enjoy their favorite foods in the park, instead of at the cafe/restaurant. A reason to celebrate, right? Yes and no. It has been a rough two+…
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Multi-Stakeholder-Workshop zu kollaborativen Rücknahmesystemen für Textilien
In light of the incoming sustainability and circularity major legislations at national and European level, the German fashion industry needs to create new crucial partnerships with the textile reversible supply chain. Initiated by the German “Partnership for Sustainable Textiles” and in collaboration with the circularity agency “Closed Loop Fashion”, in a 4 days multi-stakeholder workshop…
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Circular City Business Tour Berlin - Ein Austauschprogramm mit israelischen Unternehmen.
Between the 22-25th of November 2021 Re-Fresh Global & Circular Berlin ran a 3 day exchange program in Berlin for Israeli organizations, textile manufacturers and experts working in different fields of circular economy and social entrepreneurship. The activities were supported by the Israel Economic & Trade Mission, Germany, and the German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation. The…
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Das Jahr 2021 des Berliner Kreises in Kürze
Another year has passed, and Circular Berlin now celebrates 3 years of active involvement in circular economy development in Berlin. It was an exciting and productive year for us and our community. Let us look together at what the main highlights and learnings of 2021 were for Circular Berlin. Building a stronger community Collaboration is…
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A-GAIN GUIDE findet die einfachsten Lösungen für deine gebrauchte Kleidung.
Gleich um die Ecke. Ein Interview mit Arianna Nicoletti. Im September hat Circular Berlin eine Premiere gefeiert: gemeinsam mit Stefanie Barz und Alessandra-Isabel Hager von LoopLook hat Arianna Nicoletti, Textiles & Fashion Lead von Circular Berlin, eine neue digitale Plattform A-GAIN GUIDE gestartet, die den Nutzer:innen die besten und kreativsten Lösungen für ihre gebrauchte Kleidung…
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Die runden Ansätze für die Arbeit mit Aluminiumverbundplatten.
On 07-08.10, as part of the Haus der Materialisierung project, Material Mafia, together with Circular Berlin and TU Berlin, organised the second seminar and the workshop on the topic: Aluminium Dibond. An aluminium Dibond is a sandwich panel. It is known as a brand for a rigid composite material that belongs to the manufacturer 3A Composites, Singen. In our…
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Eine Kreislaufwirtschaft für Elektronik in Berlin: Wie kann das Potenzial der Stadt genutzt werden?
With continuous digitalisation, increasing affordability of products and rapid urbanisation, cities produce enormous amounts of electronic waste. Read more about framing the electronics sector here. BSR’s recycling centers separately collect a total of around 4 kg per person per year of old electrical equipment (Source). Berlin looks at the diverse options of the collection of…
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Warum sollten wir uns für Drucktücher interessieren?
On 03-04.06, as part of the Haus der Materialisierung project, Material Mafia, together with Circular Berlin and TU Berlin, organised the first seminar and the workshop on the topic of Printing Blankets You would ask: Printing Blankets? The rubber printing blanket is used in the process of offset printing. It is stretched around a printing…
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Die Definition des Elektroniksektors: Ein erster Schritt zur Verbesserung der Kreislaufwirtschaft in diesem Sektor.
The consensus is clear: electronics are one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world in terms of volume and environmental impact. For us, Circular Berlin, it was essential to start diving into this sector seeing the urgency it has for more circularity. With the help of five students from Utrecht University, we took…
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Circular Hubs in Europa - was Sie verpasst haben.
On 28.04 Circular Berlin hosted the event Circular Hubs across Europe. We discussed the need and roles for such regional hubs in the transformation to the circular economy. We had the pleasure of speaking with: Cynthia Reynolds, Founder of Circular Oslo & Circular Regions; Laurène Descamps, Program Coordinator at Circular Economy Transition and Impact HUB…
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Streben nach Wirkung in einer Kreislaufwirtschaft.
In our community of changemakers, such words as: “mission”, “impact”, “change”, and “transformation” are used quite often. Every new social and environmental organization has set up big and ambitious goals to change the current system towards becoming more sustainable, inclusive, fair and social. Within Circular Berlin, we believe that the circular economy is only one…
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Das Jahr 2020 des Circular Berlin in Kürze
What a year! 2020 was extraordinary, different, challenging, life-changing, flexible, and other adjectives you can find to describe the whole situation. For us, in Circular Berlin, it was not an exception. We had to find our way to work differently, to adjust to the situation, and to keep on with motivation. Like everyone, at the…
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CE-Strategien in Bauprojekten: Erkenntnisse aus Neubauten und Umgestaltungen von Gebäuden
Shifting from business as usual towards circular economy principles in the construction sector is a long path. To do this: However, most importantly, the mindset of the construction sector’s actors has to shift, to stand behind that change. Over this year, we ran online workshops with a diverse group of stakeholders, to create new ways…
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Projekt “Kreislaufschule” feiert erfolgreichen Abschluss
The project circular school (“Kreislaufschule”) is a creative project format for schools. Through a series of creative and activist projects, students transform their school bit by bit, resource by resource, into a sustainable closed loop school. At the end the school is awarded the “Circular School Certificate”. At the end of September, the Kreativitätsgrundschule Karlshorst…
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Kreislauforientierte Arbeitsplätze: ein Baustein für den Übergang zu einer Kreislaufwirtschaft
The Circular Economy is the solution to address environmental crises through efficient and sufficient resources use. This new way of thinking about future circular systems goes beyond the environmental issues we have to tackle, bringing in debates about how to finance a new system, and what skills we need in order to create a new…
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Understanding the complexity of food systems to address urban and rural needs
Despite the challenging circumstances modern society faces today, Circular Berlin continues to invest energy in reshaping the systems in which our society depends upon. In relation to the food system, It is urgent that we align with environmental practices in the way that we produce food; reconciling ourselves with the natural environments that support life…
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Learn about circular economy, why not online? Sneak peak in our daily work
It has been strange times with lots of opportunities since March. For circular Berlin we faced the same challenge, many of us had to face: „How might we bring our work into an online world, in order not to pause it?” Circular Economy or not, as facilitators the idea of interacting only virtually with known…
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Berlins neues Labor für Sekundärstoffe - Haus der Materialisierung
Haus der Materialisierung is Berlin’s new lab for secondary materials. As Circular Berlin, we are taking part in building it and can report from the front lines. This is a sneak peak on what it’s about, where we stand, and what to expect in the near future. Secondary, used materials are plentiful – whether for…
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Die Schritte zur Verwirklichung der Kreislaufwirtschaft bei Bauprojekten
In 2020 Circular Berlin is part of the project City Loops, with such partners as Provadis Hochschule (Germany), Wuppertal Institute (Germany), CleanTech Bulgaria (Bulgaria), Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (United Kingdom). The core of the project is to bring circular economy thinking for the practitioners using advanced circular economy tools such as circularity compass, structural waste…
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Project Circular School is awarded
Firstly, circularity practices are not part of Berlin schools’ regular syllabus. It is however important to raise awareness on this topic among young students as they represent our future. Secondly, most schools in Berlin are not run taking circular or sustainable practices into account. The Kreativitätsgrundschule Karlshorst is trying to change the latter. That’s why…
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Exploring fashion supply chains in times of crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching consequences for global markets and their manufacturing. The crisis has exposed the lack of resiliency specifically within the fashion industry supply chain, while simultaneously highlighting positive opportunities rising from the crisis. Circular Berlin wanted to explore the role of circularity in creating a more resilient fashion industry and reinforcing…
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Breaking it down: plastic packaging
Flexible packaging? Rigid packaging? Transportation packaging? Food-contact related packaging? – It is not easy to bring this topic under one term, even though we call all it “packaging.” On February 26th, Circular Berlin together with RawParadise and Project Together hosted our first event in 2020, where we shared our knowledge on the topic of plastic…
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Education in a Circular Economy
Transitioning to a circular economy requires a lot: business innovation, consumer behavior change, new policy frameworks, community engagement. But one thing has to happen before any of those changes can take place: people need to learn what the circular economy is, and how to make it happen. Behind every business decision and every policy choice…
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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg hat jetzt ein Zero Waste-Konzept
Circular Berlin, together with BUND Berlin and GRÜNE LIGA Landesverband Berlin, has developed a zero waste concept for public spaces and events in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. The four month project collaboration was successfully completed in December 2019, with a final press conference in early January. By commissioning the concept, the district has taken on…
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Circular Berlin’s 2019 in a nutshell
Much has changed since the beginning of 2019 – from incorporating our organization and growing our team, to getting engaged in industry and municipal projects. Grab a cup of coffee and dive into the little insights of our activities this year! Developing Circular Berlin into a true entity We have made a big step forward…
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Berlin’s path to a circular city – time to start
Cities are major centres of the human population, economic capital, natural resource use, and waste generation. In Circular Berlin we strongly believe that the Circular City is the future approach to address the pressing topic of resources. Here is how we define it for our work: Resources are sourced locally, if possible, used only if truly needed, and their value is maintained as part of a continuous loop ー within the limits of our planet. Waste and pollution are non-existent. People’s lives and jobs positively affect their neighbourhoods and communities. Circular Berlin With our…
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Circular Berlin is selected among the finalists of the 2019 Transformative Action Award
Circular Berlin (Germany), Leuven2030 (Belgium) and the City of Lousada (Portugal) were announced as the finalists of the 2019 Transformative Action Award. The European sustainability award is organised by ICLEI, the Basque Country and the City of Aalborg (Denmark) and supported by the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the European Investment Bank (EIB). Now in its third year,…
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Circular Berlin at the 3rd PLATE Conference
PLATE stands for Product Lifetimes and the Environment and is a conference series organised by Fraunhofer IZM and Technical University Berlin. This year, it took place from 18-20th of September in Berlin. Circular Berlin was present with a poster about the CURE project entitled ‘Centers for Urban Re-manufacture: Lessons from the CURE Pathfinder project‘ by…
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Von Räumen lernen oder wie Räume das kreisförmige Bauen unterstützen können
Together with the Urban Ideation Lab at B-Part Am Gleisdreieck on August 22, 2019, Circular Berlin discussed the topic of spaces and how the use of space in the building can underpin circular construction. To accelerate the transformation from linear to circular economy in the construction sector, there is an urgency to deploy circular business…
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Kickstarting Circular Food in Berlin
2019 has been a year of a lot of movement in Berlin. For Circular Berlin (CB) this reality also applies. Different projects, workshops and initiatives have been developed during the year in order to promote and enhance the vision of circular economy among the entrepreneur community in our beloved city. On the 18th of July…
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Vorstellung von Berlins wegweisendem Lernzentrum für Ressourcenrückgewinnung und Zero-Waste-Aktivitäten
On the 7th of May ZUsammenKUNFT, Kunst-Stoffe, Material Mafia, Circular Berlin and the Chair of Circular Economy and Recycling Technologies of TU-Berlin presented the idea of establishing a “Haus der Materialisierung” as one of the pioneer users at the Haus der Statistik initiative. The event took place at the Werkstatt of the Haus der Statistik,…