Circular City Ports - Workbook
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1 Cirkelstad Drechtsteden Dordrecht<br />
48<br />
Location Scale Tag<br />
“ We are at the beginning of the transition to a circular<br />
economy. And that doesn’t always make it easy.<br />
The Cirkelstad platform shows that we need each<br />
other to take steps in this direction.”<br />
Port Region<br />
Platform<br />
Delta Region<br />
Drechtsteden<br />
CIRKELSTAD DRECHTSTEDEN<br />
Drechtsteden (engineering dep.), Cirkellab &<br />
leading firms in the construction sector<br />
Port Region<br />
CIRKELLAB<br />
support & development of<br />
circular projects<br />
and initiatives<br />
<strong>City</strong> Port<br />
Entity<br />
flow of goods flow of knowledge or influence industrial symbiosis other<br />
What’s happening? How does it happen?<br />
In 2016 a research on concrete circular opportunities<br />
for Dordrecht was made. Not as an all encompassing<br />
scientific analysis, more as a pragmatic<br />
concrete proposal that seek for leads of new productive<br />
activities. This was done in close collaboration<br />
with parties and companies involved.<br />
Through the lense of circular economy it explores<br />
exemplary cases, On top they also explored promising<br />
topics in and for Dordrecht; waste flows, manufacturing<br />
industry (electric and maritime), logistics<br />
and healthcare.<br />
These insights and collaboration resulted, indirect-<br />
ly after a few years, in the platform of Cirkelstad<br />
Drechtsteden where companies are now testing<br />
and developing test cases (focus on construction).<br />
The platform is a national organisation but locally<br />
monitored by Cirkellab.<br />
Why is this an interesting circular initiative for<br />
circular ports?<br />
The preliminary research and platform both start<br />
from the believe that companies should be involved<br />
from the beginning, to work together on a incremential<br />
way towards more circularity.