{"id":6159,"date":"2026-04-07T07:35:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indumetal.com\/circ4life\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:04:36","slug":"circ4life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/circ4life\/","title":{"rendered":"CIRC4life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1421.4px;margin-left: calc(-3% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-3% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.455%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.455%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.455%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.455%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.455%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.455%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><blockquote>\n<p><strong>A circular economy approach for lifecycles of products and services<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><h4 class=\"sow-headline\">INDUMETAL RECYCLING PARTICIPATES IN THE CIRC4LIFE PROJECT, AN EUROPEAN PROJECT AIMS AT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW BUSSINES MODELS BASED ON CIRCULAR ECONOMY<\/h4>\n<p>Indumetal Recycling is one of the seventeen partner teams from eight European countries working on the project &#8220;CIRC4Life: A circular economy approach for lifecycles of products and services&#8221;, which is aimed to develop and implement a circular economy approach for sustainable products and services through their value and supply chains. This project is one of the Indumetal\u2019s initiatives within its innovation policy related to WEEE management.<\/p>\n<p>Within the project, Indumetal will be in charge of the demonstration of these new circular economy business models with the tablets and of the awareness campaign that will be carried out in different munipalities, schools and commercial areas of the Basque Country. This initiative expects to involve a high number of roles from the value and supply chain, such as end users, manufacturers, researchers and society.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-5552 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/indumetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/economiacircular-e1624362828876.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/indumetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/economiacircular-e1624362828876.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27593%27%20height%3D%27568%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20593%20568%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27593%27%20height%3D%27568%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/economiacircular-e1624362828876-200x192.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/economiacircular-e1624362828876-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/economiacircular-e1624362828876-400x383.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/economiacircular-e1624362828876.jpg 593w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this framework, the project will develop three new circular economy business models, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-creation of Products and Services model will bring end-users closer to the design and manufacturing phases by identifying consumer preferences via Big-data online mining product reviews and evaluating product specifications and prototypes via Living Lab to customise the end-user requirements. Benefited from the co-creation features, sets of sustainable production methods will be implemented and new products\/services will be created.<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable Consumption model will develop a method to calculate the eco-points of products based on the outcome of FP7 myEcoCost project, assess product environment footprints (PEF), provide a traceability solution to monitor product\u2019s sustainability along the value chain, and support end-users and stakeholders to actively implement the circular economy via awareness raising and knowledge sharing activities.<\/li>\n<li>Collaborative Recycling\/Reuse model will develop a system for stakeholders to interact with each other to facilitate the recycling\/reuse of end-of-life products and reduce waste, and implement the eco-credits awarding scheme to encourage people to recycle\/reuse.<\/li>\n<li>The project commenced in May 2018 and will be developed over three years. With a budget higher than 7M\u20ac, this project is coordinated by the University of Nottingham and funding by the European Commission through H2020 Research and Innovation Programme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-5527 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/indumetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandera-Europa.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/indumetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandera-Europa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27150%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20150%20150%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27150%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandera-Europa-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandera-Europa.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This project has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 776503. For further information visit the webpage:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.circ4life.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.circ4life.eu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6458,"href":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159\/revisions\/6458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indumetal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}