Tondo I Circular Economy

21/04/2026

📄 Paper Week 2026 a Monza: carta, creatività e partecipazione

Si è conclusa la , l’iniziativa nazionale promossa da Comieco dedicata alla carta e al suo riciclo.

Anche quest’anno Tondo ha partecipato in collaborazione con il Comune di Monza, contribuendo al programma “Monza si raccolta: la città che rinasce dalla carta” con una settimana di attività diffuse sul territorio.

📍 Le iniziative hanno coinvolto diversi luoghi della città — Il Paese Ritrovato, scuole elementari e un liceo artistico (in collaborazione con l’Autodromo Nazionale Monza), centri civici e la Casa Circondariale — raggiungendo pubblici diversi e creando occasioni di incontro e scambio.

✂️ I laboratori hanno alternato momenti introduttivi sul ciclo della carta ad attività pratiche, in cui i partecipanti hanno potuto sperimentare il riuso creativo: collage, origami, blackout poetry, creazione di cartoline e realizzazione di macchinine e prototipi ispirati alla mobilità del futuro, tutti realizzati a partire da materiali cartacei di recupero.

Bambini, studenti e adulti sono stati coinvolti in un percorso che ha unito manualità, creatività e consapevolezza, mostrando come anche gesti semplici possano contribuire alla diffusione di una cultura più sostenibile.

🌱 La Paper Week si conferma così un’importante occasione per avvicinare le persone ai temi dell’economia circolare attraverso esperienze concrete e partecipate.

Grazie al Comune di Monza, a Comieco e a tutte le realtà e le persone che hanno contribuito a rendere questa settimana così ricca.

19/12/2025

🔄 Venture building and the circular economy: building companies to scale impact

The circular economy is no longer just about pilot projects or isolated innovations. To truly scale impact, circular solutions must become market-ready businesses.

This is where venture building plays a crucial role: by transforming circular ideas into companies designed to grow, operate in complex ecosystems, and generate both economic and environmental value.

In our latest article on the Tondo blog, we explore:
🔹 Why many circular solutions struggle to scale
🔹 What venture building really means (and how it differs from incubators and accelerators)
🔹 Why this approach is particularly suited to circular business models
🔹 How measurement, data, and tools can support circular venture creation

👉 Read the article “Venture Building and the Circular Economy” on Tondo’s blog and visit our website to learn more: https://www.tondo.tech/en/dissemination-and-resources/blog/venture-building-and-circular-economy/

Building a circular economy also means building new companies.

Read the article “Venture Building and the Circular Economy” on Tondo’s blog, and visit our website to learn more!

15/12/2025

🔄 Global Circularity Protocol: the new standard for measuring corporate circularity

Circularity has become a key topic for many companies.
Yet measuring it effectively, integrating it into decision-making, and communicating it transparently remain major challenges.

The Global Circularity Protocol for Business (GCP) was created to address exactly that.
It provides an international framework to measure, manage, and communicate circular performance through clear, comparable and actionable indicators.

In Tondo’s latest blog article, we explore:

🔹 Why a global standard was needed
🔹 The 5 pillars of the protocol (Frame, Prepare, Measure, Manage, Communicate)
🔹 How the GCP helps companies turn circularity into a strategic driver
🔹 Tondo’s role in supporting circularity measurement and innovation

👉 Read the full article:
https://www.tondo.tech/en/dissemination-and-resources/blog/global-circularity-protocol-lo-standard-per-la-circolarita/

The circular transition requires shared, rigorous, and scalable tools.
The GCP is a significant step in that direction.

Read the article “Global Circularity Protocol: the standard for circularity” on Tondo’s blog, and visit our website to learn more!

04/12/2025

We’ve launched two new pilots designed to bring artificial intelligence into companies’ circular economy journeys.

1️⃣ Circularity Tool + AI
A pathway that combines Tondo’s circularity measurement tools with an additional layer of AI-supported interpretation.

What you get:
- circularity assessment (product / company / territory)

- automatic report with indicators and graphs

- AI-assisted report with hotspots, priorities and links to ESG/CSRD

👉 The pilot is free for the first 5 selected companies
🔗 Learn more: https://www.tondo.tech/en/dissemination-and-resources/blog/circularity-tool-ai-pilot-were-looking-for-5-companies/
📝 Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjFKUnmgF_udcKqElOYngssDiFtI7evjcdizDoILqI3zWtDQ/viewform

2️⃣ AI Circular Venture Sprint
A 2–3 month workflow that takes you from a circularity challenge to 1–2 validated concepts for new circular products or services.

Includes:
- concept generation and selection
- rapid testing and collection of market signals
- mini business case

👉 Up to 70% discount for the first 3 companies
🔗 Learn more: https://www.tondo.tech/en/dissemination-and-resources/blog/ai-circular-venture-sprint-new-circular-products-in-2-3-months/
📝 Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMJuLHs-ykJW6H1mjm9Pvo4khufbIu5cabpSVb1-uH0KTaJA/viewform

If your company has circularity goals and wants to understand which actions to activate next, we’re ready to work with you.

25/11/2025

♻️ Rethinking Value: Circularity is becoming a real business strategy

In our latest article, we explore the Rethinking Value white paper by Vlerick Business School, which shows how circularity is moving from theory to a concrete driver of innovation, competitiveness and risk management.

In a context of resource volatility and rising regulatory pressure, rethinking value means shifting toward durability, reuse, regeneration and service-based models, unlocking both economic and operational benefits.

The report highlights five essential pillars for credible circular transformation:
🔹 systems thinking
🔹 circular design
🔹 new business models
🔹 enabling mechanisms (digitalisation, regulation, finance)
🔹 people and organisational culture

🔍 Five case studies make this transition tangible:
• ABN AMRO integrating circular indicators into risk assessment and financing circular business models
• Barco developing modular products and refurbishing services in a sector driven by rapid obsolescence
• B.I.G. redesigning polymer materials with 2030 targets for recycled and bio-based inputs
• IKEA scaling buy-back programmes and second-life markets across global retail
• Impetus converting agri-food side streams into new resources through “circularity-as-a-service”

Across all cases, a clear pattern emerges: leading companies integrate circularity into strategy, collaborate across value chains and start small to scale effectively.

For Tondo, this shift is no longer aspirational, it is the natural evolution of economic models. The real challenge now is turning these examples into widely adopted standards.

🔗 Read the full article → https://www.tondo.tech/en/dissemination-and-resources/blog/rethinking-value-how-companies-are-transforming-circularity/

Read the article “Rethinking Value: how companies are transforming circularity” on Tondo’s blog, and visit the site to learn more!

13/11/2025

How can energy-intensive industries cut emissions, reduce dependency on raw materials and stay competitive?

According to a new Joint Research Centre (JRC) study, the answer lies in the circular economy.

The report “Capturing the potential of the circular economy transition in energy-intensive industries” (2025) shows that applying circular strategies such as reduce, reuse and recover across steel, aluminium, cement and plastics could almost double Europe’s GHG reductions by 2050 compared to decarbonisation alone.

Circularity is not just about recycling. It means redesigning industrial systems to make them more efficient, resilient and independent.
From green steel to cement fines recovery and chemical recycling of plastics, these sectors are becoming real laboratories of transition.

At TONDO, we believe that the energy transition is not enough without a material transition.
Circularity is not a buzzword; it is a strategic path toward a more autonomous, sustainable and competitive Europe.

👉 Read the full article here: https://www.tondo.tech/en/dissemination-and-resources/blog/energy-intensive-industries-the-power-of-the-circular-economy/

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Leggi l'articolo "Industrie energetiche intensive" sul blog di Tondo, e visita il sito per saperne di più!

21/10/2025

📢 Online il Report delle Startup selezionate di Taranto CirTech 2025

Siamo felici di annunciare la pubblicazione del Report “Taranto CirTech – Call 4 Deep Tech Ideas”, che racconta il percorso di accelerazione dedicato alle startup e PMI innovative impegnate nella transizione ecologica e nell’economia circolare.

Il documento raccoglie i risultati del programma, le storie delle 11 startup selezionate e le tecnologie sviluppate in ambiti chiave come:

♻️ Waste e circular materials
💧 Water e blue economy
⚡ Advanced materials e energy
🌱 Deep tech e rigenerazione ambientale

Nel report trovate una panoramica sul progetto, il metodo di accelerazione adottato e le innovazioni nate a Taranto grazie all’iniziativa promossa da TONDO, nell’ambito dell’ecosistema MUSA – Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action, coordinato dal Politecnico di Milano e finanziato dal PNRR – NextGenerationEU.

Un ringraziamento speciale alle startup protagoniste del percorso 👏
B&Y S.r.l., 2Pack CrioPurA by EnJoiPol, myconic, BlueGeo, Techloop, Be.Me, WEDS-Wast3D Shells, AraBat srl, Ingenium - iMENSA - Incubatore d'Innovazione Ingegneria Università LUM, Phytoroots.

📖 Leggi e scarica il report completo:https://www.tondo.tech/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Report-Startup_Taranto-CirTech.pdf

17/10/2025

🌱 Certified Biodegradables: Do They Really Work?

Biodegradable materials are often seen as heroes in the fight against plastic pollution but do they really live up to their promises?

A recent BB-REG-NET report, “Addressing Persistent Plastic Pollution: The Case for Biodegradable Solutions,” presents scientific data and real-world evidence confirming that certified biodegradable materials can fully degrade turning into water, CO₂, and biomass without leaving persistent plastic residues behind.

From agricultural mulch films to biodegradable tree shelters and compostable packaging, the study shows that these solutions work, but only when managed responsibly within a circular system.

Environmental conditions, end-of-life management, and proper disposal channels make all the difference.

Among the most promising examples:
🌿 Tutor International Srl, Renashe, producing natural-fiber biodegradable tree protectors
♻️ Biorepack, the first European consortium dedicated to the organic recycling of compostable bioplastic packaging.

At Tondo, we believe that innovation must be guided by science.
These materials are not a free pass to pollute, they’re a tool to rethink how we produce, use, and regenerate resources.

👉 Read the full article and explore the key insights on our blog:
🔗https://www.tondo.tech/en/dissemination-and-resources/blog/certified-biodegradabls-do-they-really-work/

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Read the article “Certified Biodegradables: Do They Really Work?” on Tondo’s blog, and visit the website to learn more!

09/10/2025

♻️ New EU Rules on Textile and Food Waste: A Turning Point for Europe’s Circular Economy

In September 2025, the European Parliament approved a landmark Waste Directive introducing binding targets to reduce food waste and impose sustainable management standards for textile waste across the EU.
This reform is one of the pillars of the Circular Economy Package, concretely advancing the European Green Deal and the path toward climate neutrality by 2050.

🔹 Key changes at a glance
- Binding targets to cut food waste by 10 % in production and 30 % at consumer level by 2030
- Mandatory Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes for textile producers within 30 months
- Eco-modulated fees to favour durable, repairable, recyclable products
- Emphasis on data collection, traceability, and circular business models

This directive is not just regulation — it’s an invitation to innovate. It spurs renewal in textile recycling chains, data-driven platforms for waste monitoring, and sustainable partnerships that can drive competitiveness.

💡 Leading European examples — such as Refashion (France), Rifò (Italy), Too Good To Go (Denmark), and LAST MINUTE MARKET - IMPRESA SOCIALE S.R.L. (Italy) — demonstrate how the circular economy can translate into real, scalable impact.

📖 Want the full insight? Read the full article here:
👉 https://www.tondo.tech/en/dissemination-and-resources/blog/new-eu-rules-on-textile-and-food-waste/

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Read the article “New EU Rules on Textile and Food Waste” on Tondo’s blog, and visit the site to learn more!

01/10/2025

Ieri pomeriggio, 30 settembre, presso il Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Biotecnologie e Ambiente dell’Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, si è svolto un incontro con la prof.ssa Isabella Pisano, dedicato alle startup del programma Taranto CirTech, con il supporto di Antonino Biundo, Ph.D.

I team iMENSA, AraBat, Myconic e 2Pack hanno presentato i loro progetti e condiviso prospettive di sviluppo.
Al termine degli interventi, la prof.ssa Pisano, insieme ai rappresentanti di TECNOPOLIS PST – la dott.ssa Annamaria Annicchiarico (Direttore Generale) e Davide De Nicolò (Chief Project Manager) – hanno offerto un’analisi dei punti di forza e delle aree di miglioramento, delineando possibili scenari futuri.

Dal confronto sono emersi alcuni temi chiave:
- la diversa regolamentazione tra imprese e associazioni del terzo settore
- il valore della territorialità per rafforzare le sinergie con le aziende locali.

Un momento prezioso di dialogo e networking, che ha rafforzato il legame tra startup e attori dell’ecosistema con l’obiettivo di trasformare idee in progetti concreti.