thumbnail_CircularNorway-Logo-black (1).webp

CircularNorway-Logo-black (1).webp

This collection features a selection of inspiring examples of the circular economy in Norway! 

Circular Norway is a driving force for the conversion of Norwegian companies and municipalities to a circular economy through practical tools, innovation, and business development. They collaborate with the leading environments on the circular economy in Europe, and together they contribute to Norway delivering on the sustainability goals and climate goals in the Paris Agreement.

At 2.4%, Norway's circularity rate is below the global average (8.6%). Norway consumes 235 million tonnes of materials—metals, fossil fuels, biomass, and minerals—to fuel its societal needs each year. 97.6% of these materials are never cycled back into the economy. But Norway has enormous potential: the country could see a 20-fold increase in its circularity by restructuring Norwegian business and industry.

To learn more about Norway's initiatives to accelerate the transition to a circular economy, visit www.circularnorway.no/ (content in Norwegian) 

small_ApplicationFrameHost_JOncfgomFz.png

thumbnail_ApplicationFrameHost_JOncfgomFz.png

ApplicationFrameHost_JOncfgomFz.png

Circular Norway

large_pexels-photo-5704789 (1).jpeg

medium_pexels-photo-5704789 (1).jpeg

small_pexels-photo-5704789 (1).jpeg

thumbnail_pexels-photo-5704789 (1).jpeg

pexels-photo-5704789 (1).jpeg

Business case

Reduced use of virgin materials and/or an increase of the use of secondary and bio-based materials

Reduce Material Consumption (SDG12)

Minimise waste through diversion: Instead of sending waste to landfill, it is redirected into other industrial processes for handling, treatment, recycling, recovery, or reuse in various forms. 

Minimise waste through design: At the outset of a process of project, plan and design such that there is zero waste or minimal waste during production, use, and at end of life. 

Minimise Waste (SDG12)

Producing building materials and finished and semi-finished building products for construction

Construction Materials and Products

Designing products so they use as little materials, water, energy, etc. as possible during use

Design for resource efficiency

Impacts

small_climate-4803653_640.jpg

thumbnail_climate-4803653_640.jpg

climate-4803653_640.jpg

Industries

small_coast-wind-turbine-sea-sky.jpg

thumbnail_coast-wind-turbine-sea-sky.jpg

coast-wind-turbine-sea-sky.jpg

The principles of a circular economy concern designing out waste, regenerating ecosystems and keeping items in use. Decoupling the economy from material flows—improving the rate of resource productivity faster than the economic growth rate—is also a consistent guide. By evolving with the growing number of applications of circular economy principles, and consolidating these strategies across thematic areas, Circle Economy’s Key Elements Framework (KE) renders the elements of the circular economy salient and serves as a basis to derive contextual strategies and interventions. 


The Framework consists of:
- Core Elements: Activities directly handling product or material flows; and uniquely,
- Enabling Elements: those that remove obstacles for core actors.


Key elements of the circular economy

large_photo-1515534238346-fb9ae3e399d0.jpg

medium_photo-1515534238346-fb9ae3e399d0.jpg

small_photo-1515534238346-fb9ae3e399d0.jpg

thumbnail_photo-1515534238346-fb9ae3e399d0.jpg

photo-1515534238346-fb9ae3e399d0.jpg

Circle Economy's framework of strategies and activities that define the circular economy

![Screen Shot 2024-10-21 at 16.53.12.png](https://goldilocks-images.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Screen_Shot_2024_10_21_at_16_53_12_12858da6aa.png)

Based on the work of [Bocken et al. (2016)](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309699661_Product_design_and_business_model_strategies_for_a_circular_economy), the Four Flows Framework serves as a simple framework for managing resource flows in a circular economy by using less (Narrow), using for longer (Slow), using again (Cycle), and using clean, regenerative materials and energy (Regenerate).

These different principles of circular economy can be applied to our socioeconomic metabolism: we can design stocks like buildings, infrastructure, machinery, and vehicles to be rich resource mines for the future, and design manufactured goods and consumables to be cycled and made regenerative. Furthermore, the focus must also centre on getting more value out of fewer materials. Achieving the aims of a circular economy—minimising material use, regenerating the Earth, and preventing material losses—can be done through these four key strategies mentioned above.

Source: Circle Economy. (2023). *[The circularity gap report 2023](https://www.circularity-gap.world/2023)* (p.22). Amsterdam: Circle Economy. 

Four Flows Framework

medium_Screen Shot 2024-10-21 at 16.53.12.png

small_Screen Shot 2024-10-21 at 16.53.12.png

thumbnail_Screen Shot 2024-10-21 at 16.53.12.png

Screen Shot 2024-10-21 at 16.53.12.png


          MAPEI har utviklet en miljøvennlig og bærekraftig løsning for resirkulering av restbetong.       Hvert år produseres det 10 milliarder kubikkmeter betong. Hele 50 millioner kubikkmeter av dette blir ikke benyttet på byggeplassen. Denne betongen representerer i dag et avfallsproblem, og en betydelig merkostnad i byggeprosjekter.Dagens løsninger for håndtering av restbetong er dyre i drift og klarer i svært liten grad å gjenvinne betongen til ny betong. Veldig mye betong blir kjørt til deponi som avfall.Nå har MAPEI lansert et system som kjemisk omdanner bløt restbetong til tørt tilslag (pukk), og som kan benyttes i produksjon av ny betong. Betongen som blir returnert til betongblandeverket blir behandlet mens den er i trommelen.      Pukken man får ut er tørr idet trommelen tømmes, så man vil aldri oppleve problemer med slam og forurensninger fra håndtering og lagring av restbetong.En kubikk med restbetong blir omdannet til ca. 2200 kg pukk som er like egnet som annen pukk for produksjon av betong. Dette gjør at løsningen resirkulerer ikke bare betongen 100 %, men man får også ut materialer av høy verdi fra prosessen.Systemet har  blitt utprøvd ved 15 - 20 betongproduksjonsanlegg i Norden, og resultatene har vist seg veldig tilfredsstillende. Dette er helt tydelig en løsning for fremtiden.  
          Fordeler ved bruk av RE-CON ZERO EVO       Minsker kraftig slamavfallet     Holder tromlene rene med mindre vann     Gir 2,2 tonn gjenvinnbart tilslag per m3 betong     Enkelt å bruke    
 
                 Datablad    Språk Norsk Engelsk Litauisk Estisk Dansk Finsk Islandsk Latvisk Svensk     Last ned            Sikkerhetsdatablad    Språk Norsk Engelsk Latvisk Dansk Italiensk Svensk Finsk Portugisisk Fransk Spansk Tysk Litauisk Estisk   -     Last ned            EPD            
     Gjenvinning av restbetong                 
      Ønsker du råd eller hjelp?          

Norway

thumbnail_blob

blob

Mapei is a multinational construction material producer. Mapei specialize in concrete. 

small_blob

MAPEI

<p>MAPEI haș developed a process in which they are able to convert, residue materials from concrete into reusable material for concrete production. The new process is able to clean the containers, dry the left over slag which can then be added as resource into new concrete production. Through this process, they are removing a waste problem and saving primary materials.</p>