SCRAP STORE 22@: Get to know the project up close at the next Maker Faire Barcelona!

The SCRAP STORE 22@ project, Barcelona’s by-product store, is a meeting point between entities with surplus materials and those that can give them a new life, whether for social purposes (schools or social reintegration companies), for the design of new products, for recycled product companies… The project is an opportunity to create synergies between companies … Read more

SIMBIOESTIU, the summer activity of the SÍMBIOSY team, at the ORÍGENS school

This year, as a team activity, we went to ORÍGENS, the bio-construction workshop school, a training and social action center that promotes knowledge of the different construction techniques and materials suitable for construction that respects its environment. Spending a fantastic day, learning while having fun in an inspiring environment has been an excellent way to … Read more

The Reus Chamber of Commerce begins its journey in Circular Economy for companies in industrial estates.

The Reus Chamber of Commerce created the circular economy commission this July, in which Símbiosy collaborates. It is the commission that has started working most urgently once the structure of the new government mandate of the chamber entity was established, with clear innovative environmental objectives. Its objective is to work for the five regions: Baix … Read more

ECOCIRCULAR ZF: Conference on photovoltaic self-consumption

Last July, the Consorci de la Zona Franca, within the framework of the Circular Economy project it leads, organized a conference on the possibilities that the new energy self-consumption legislation offers to companies in the Zona Franca industrial estate. Key entities in the field of energy efficiency such as the Barcelona Energy Agency, the Catalonia … Read more

III FISSAC LIVING LAB BARCELONA: Third workshop on circular economy applied to the construction sector

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The FISSAC Living Lab Barcelona are a series of multidisciplinary workshops; open debate spaces that are part of the European project FISSAC, whose objective is to promote the creation of industrial symbiosis networks between interested agents in the construction and demolition value chain. On May 15, 2019, as … Read more

“ZERO BANALS”: Conference on a joint “waste management advisory” service for companies

AEBALL, the business association that brings together 4,000 companies from Hospitalet and Baix Llobregat (Barcelona), is implementing the “Zero Banals” project, which aims to minimize waste destined for landfills and recover second-life materials from companies in the Economic District of Hospitalet (companies, hotels, Fira BCN, shopping center, large distribution areas, etc.). Within the framework of … Read more

SCRAP STORE 22@: circular economy in Barcelona’s 22@ district

SCRAP STORE 22@ is born, the “store” for surplus materials from Barcelona companies. The 22@Network Association (www.22network.net) is launching this new project within the framework of circular economy projects of the Waste Agency of Catalonia (Agencia Residus Catalunya. Subvencions 2019). This is an initiative to promote the circular economy in the district by showcasing, exchanging, … Read more

Strategic plan for the development of renewable energies in the regions of Girona

Law 16/2017 on Climate Change and the National Pact for the Energy Transition establish very ambitious objectives regarding the share of renewable energies in our electricity system, objectives that are still far from being achievable at the current rate of implementation. Actions are needed to promote the development of renewable energies integrated into the territory. … Read more

PRESENTATION OF THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE “Film Km0” PROJECT: local valorization of waste from

The FILM KM0 project, subsidized by the Catalan Waste Agency, aims to analyze the potential and feasibility of the valorization of residual plastic film through collaboration between the different agents in the value chain. This project, led by the Guild of Recovery of Catalonia, also seeks to strengthen and update the role of the recovery … Read more

The Bufalvent district heating network project wins the Urban Wins Manresa award

The project presented by Símbiosy has won the CIRCULAR ECONOMY ÁGORA of the European project Urban Wins Manresa. This is a feasibility study to implement a heating network using residual resources from the Bufalvent controlled waste deposit. On February 18, 2019, the “Circular Economy Agora” was held in the assembly hall of the UPC of … Read more