Norway

Signify enables customers to custom-design or tailor their luminaires. 

The service saves time, energy, waste in manufacturing, packaging and transportation. 3D printing paves the way for more innovative designs with more complex shapes and colors. The luminaires are available digitally for on-demand production and stored to allow easy modification and adaptation. What’s more, all 3D printed luminaires are recyclable, specifically designed for a Circular Economy.

IVAR IKS, a Norwegian intermunicipal waste management company, has transformed municipal solid waste (MSW) processing by implementing an advanced mixed waste sorting facility in Forus.By shifting from separate collection to automated sorting, IVAR has significantly increased recycling rates, reduced CO₂ emissions, and provided high-quality recycled materials for new products.This initiative exemplifies a successful circular economy model in waste management.

The Kongsvinger Region in Norway launched a circular public procurement pilot following the insights of a regional Circle Scan. This initiative aims to embed circularity into procurement processes by developing criteria for circular tenders and upskilling municipal staff. The pilot serves as a learning platform to accelerate the transition to a circular economy within public administration.

Buildings and facilities require a large part of the earth's resources in terms of materials, energy and waste. Kristian Augusts gate 13 (KA13) is largely created from elements that would otherwise have been thrown away.

This is Norway's first building where the reuse of building materials and circular solutions has been used on a larger scale. With this project, the amount of waste has been drastically reduced, both through the reuse of the existing building and through the use of materials from demolition projects. In addition, the preservation and further development of existing buildings and urban spaces is valuable for the cities' identity and history.

The city of Oslo has taken a holistic approach to implementing circular economy (CE) principles by embedding them directly into its planning and policy documents. This systematic integration supports long-term sustainability goals and enables coordinated actions across departments. Key strategies include reducing plastic pollution, rethinking consumption, and using climate budgeting as a reporting tool for circular progress.

Empower uses blockchain technology to solve the plastic waste issue through a variety of mechanisms and smart tools across the plastic value chain - for example increasing the value of plastic waste through encouraging collectors, recyclers, brands and consumers to collect and recycle plastic waste in return for credits that can make encourage profitable recycling and increase equality for marginalized people in the global south.

Their software system collects data about waste and helps uncover valuable resources by incentivizing users for more sustainable behavior. Using the carrot, not the whip: the system collects data about who throws what to motivate and reward waste sorting efforts. By rewarding people for what they return, Carrot is creating a world of circular materials through “turning apathy into action and waste into resources.”.

Norcable produces cables and power lines with sustainable raw materials and clean hydropower on the west coast of Norway.

ViewPoint SEAFARM develops offshore facilities for fish farming based on the reuse of existing drilling platforms previously used in the oil and gas industry.