best practices

Practical guides to identify environmental problems, detect waste- and emission-reduction actions, and introduce cleaner production measures. The guides include case studies of how companies tackled environmental problems and dealt with relevant legislation to deliver positive business outcomes...

This guide provides criteria and seven handy steps to help companies integrate environmental factors into product and service designs. It is aimed at industrial design companies and/or people involved in product design. The handbook includes four case studies of Basque companies that successfully...

Ekoscan provides a working method to help companies, including SMEs, incorporate environmental thinking into their daily business routines by involving the whole company and consolidating internal knowledge. The tool establishes the environment as a management function not just a cost. Performance...

Cleaner Production Projects Development Manual is a methodology that provides guidance for implementing cleaner production projects in companies. The projects aim to reduce manufacturing costs through more efficient use of energy and material resources, lower pollution, and improved health and...

The Circulator is a web-based tool developed in a framework of the project of the same name (funded by EIT Raw Materials) that helps companies to navigate potential circular strategies and learn from inspiring cases. The tool provides an overview of the most relevant business models for the raw...

The government of the Brussels-Capital Region helps organisations (business, non-profit and public) include circular economy principles in their activities. The programme offers several financial instruments to support the organisations: subsidies, grants, tax allowances, but also tools, good...