Eqosphere – a collaborative web platform battling against (food) waste

The challengeThe use of a collaborative online sharing platform is beneficial for all members – and not only for ethical reasons. Giving away discarded products is cheaper than ...

Landfill taxes – Dedicated green taxes to reduce waste sent to landfill

The challengeFollowing the waste hierarchy, landfill or disposal of waste is the least preferred step in its management. With the aim to extract the maximum practical benefits from products and to ...

INNOV’R – boosting eco-innovation in the French Rhône-Alpes region

The challengeINNOV’R project funding is open to microenterprises, small industry and SMEs. It is in particular these kind of companies that face difficulties when it comes to ...

Tenerrdis, a flagship new energy technologies cluster in the Rhône-Alpes region

The challengeSeveral individual regions or metropolitan areas face specific challenges, problems or opportunities with regards to a particular industrial sector. A cluster approach that ...

Reward/Penalty scheme to promote low environmental impact cars

The challengeThe average fuel consumption of vehicles in Europe is 143 g/km (European Vehicle Market Statistics, 2013). This average needs to be brought down to meet the European Union’s CO2 ...

Use of life cycle assessment and index for recyclability tools to achieve sustainable production throughout Renault’s vehicle value chain.

The challengeThe vehicle production chain includes complex and specialised actors. Environmental and social challenges can rise at any life-cycle stage of a vehicle from the manufacturing of...
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