A small Italian company has shown how the circular economy and sustainable innovation can work in practice by creating a new textile from an industrial by-product that is abundant in southern Italy: orange peel. The company, Orange Fiber, founded in 2014 and based in Catania, Sicily, has patented a...

The concept of clusters has proved effective in the European Union as a way of bringing researchers and companies – especially smaller companies – together to explore approaches to resource efficiency. SMEs in particular can dramatically enhance their operations by working in clusters. In EU countries, there are various clusters working on various aspects of...