United Circles
United Circles is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action demonstrating networked industrial-urban symbiosis value chains that upcycle urban food waste, wastewater solids and construction and demolition waste. It works to close urban and industrial water loops to reduce freshwater use in drought-prone regions and integrates energy co-generation into the upcycling pathways. Organised around Hubs for Circularity, the project advances its technologies from TRL5 to TRL7 within integrated value chains.
Our role
Consortium partner
Outcomes
- Demonstration of three industrial-urban symbiosis value chains: food waste, wastewater solids, and construction and demolition waste.
- A demonstrator turning construction and demolition waste into material reused in new buildings.
- Closed urban and industrial water loops to cut freshwater use in drought-prone regions, with integrated energy co-generation.
- Maturation of upcycling technologies from TRL5 to TRL7, designed for replication in mirroring hubs.
Consortium
Dozens of partners across more than a dozen countries
Funding
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement No 101178798.
- Grant agreement no
- 101178798
Domains
- Circular economy
- Industrial symbiosis
- Construction waste
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