Circular Copenhagen

Currently, a lot of limited resources are considered waste after usage. They are thus thrown away to be burned and not coming back. Therefore, even more resources must be included in a circular economy, rather than being taken out of circulation. In Copenhagen, we want to be better at reusing and sorting our waste for recycling.

We are working to achieve the goals of 70 percent sorting, tripling reuse and 59,000 tons of CO2-reduction through a range of activities such as:

• Establishment of up to 750 public sorting points
• Three new local recycling hubs and better reuse facilities at other recycling stations
• Waste sorting in Copenhagen's citizen-oriented institutions
• More sorting particularly of food waste and plastics
• New technological solutions for post-sorting of residual waste

Will your company be among the circular frontrunners and develop new solutions that push the green transition in Copenhagen and the rest of the world?

The City of Copenhagen only achieves the ambitious objectives of Circular Copenhagen through strong development cooperation with industry and knowledge institutions. Therefore, the municipality has created a so-called "innovation platform", Circular Copenhagen, which will make it easier for technology developers and other innovative actors to get in touch with the municipality's development department and enter into dialogue about the possibilities for cooperation.

The development project "Holy Grail 2.0" involves more than 100 leading packaging companies across the EU, and the City of Copenhagen plays a key role. The goal is to demonstrate a groundbreaking new way to sort plastic packaging and food and drink cartons, based on digital watermarks. This will allow for a much higher level of detail and quality in recycling.

Read more about the Holy Grail 2.0 project

In collaboration with the company Beyond Coffee, we demonstrate a method of using garden and park waste as a growing medium for edible oyster mushrooms.