Circular Innovation Award: refurbed and byeagain honored
DE · Circular Innovation Award: refurbed und byeagain ausgezeichnet
The Circular Innovation Award Austria recognizes five category winners and two special award recipients from 57 submissions, including refurbed, Vetropack Austria, and byeagain. This article introduces the award winners and contextualizes Austria's progress in the circular economy.
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- At the first Circular Innovation Award Austria, an international jury selected five category winners from 57 submissions: refurbed, Vetropack Austria, Brantner Green Solutions, byeagain and GzG Gipsrecycling.
- The winning solutions range from refurbed's trade-in program for refurbished electronics and Vetropack's lightweight reusable glass bottle to Brantner's recovery of glass from residual waste, byeagain's AI-supported processing of returns, and GzG's gypsum-to-gypsum recycling plant.
- The jury's special prizes went to BauKarussell for Social Circular Impact and to Salesianer as Circular Pioneer. Materialnomaden transformed old trophies into disassemblable one-off pieces.
- According to the European Environment Agency, 14.3 percent of the materials used in Austria in 2023 came from recycling; the national strategy aims for 18 percent by 2030. Minister Peter Hanke stated the goal of placing Austria among the top three European countries in circular material use by 2035; the next award round will accept submissions from April 2027.
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