Belgium
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Fost Plus - PreventPack
PreventPack is a range of tools, services, and advice on green packaging, recyclability, ecodesign and more. Catalogue of best practices and advice Examples of how to optimise packaging, together with best practices, on the publications web-page and sent to people who subscribe to the newsletter...
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UCM - Cellule eco-conception
UCM is the main French-speaking employers’ organisation in Belgium, involved in defending the self-employed and business leaders. UCM offers a diverse range of services to SMEs, from business development to HR management and social services. Ten years ago, they created an eco-design unit, which...
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Energy Scan
The Flemish Enterprise and Innovation Agency (VLAIO) offers companies individual energy screening (energy scan) via contracted professional energy consultancies. SMEs can order the free energy scan through the KEEP project with optional implementation advice following up on the recommended energy...
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SME Energy Guide
SME Energy Guide offers insights and tips to help businesses decrease their energy use. With the benchmarking calculator, a company can quickly find out whether it consumes more than average for the relevant sector. The data provided is anonymous and secure. Once the benchmark is established, the...
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Water Consumption Simulation
Water Consumption Simulation is a calculator that helps cattle farms to better understand how much water they use. Farmers can check whether their consumption is realistic and do a simulation of their water use and costs for different scenarios.
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Pack4Ecodesign
Packaging consumes around 5 % of the energy needed during a product's life cycle. Pack4Ecodesign is a free online toolbox to help professionals design better, more eco-friendly packaging. In particular, the tool calculates the environmental impact of specific packaging materials used in terms of...
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Pack4Recycling
Pack4Recycling is an easy-to-use tool for assessing whether the packaging is recyclable or not. It also provides tips for improving the recylability through ‘design for recycling’ principles and other measures which help minimise the overall environmental impact of packaging.
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Close the Loop - Guide for a circular fashion industry
Close the Loop is a tool that guides fashion entrepreneurs through the basics of a more sustainable and circular way of working. For each phase of a fashion product lifecycle (resources, design, production, retail, consumption, end of life), the tool formulates five resource-efficient strategies...
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Cirkeltips
The tool provides automated feedback, tips, comparisons and access to good practices on good waste management for SMEs. The feedback is based on the waste-production data of SMEs collected through the IMJV, an annual Flemish mandatory survey on environmental performance from the Flemish government.
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BMIX - Business Model Innovation Grid
This tool aims to inspire businesses to incorporate environmental and social considerations into their core business model. It provides eight basic sustainability strategies categorised under technological, social and organisational themes with focus on resource efficiency aspects (in particular...
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OVAM SIS Toolkit
The OVAM Sustainable Innovation System (SIS) Toolkit helps designers to integrate sustainability principles in their innovation processes. It focsuses on the integration of five types of value creation: human, intellectual, financial, social, and natural capital. The toolkit was developed by OVAM...
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Ecolizer
Ecodesign tool for product designers to calculate the environmental impact of their product, both as a whole and for each step in the life cycle. The ecolizer tool takes into account the environmental impact (in 19 indicators) of the used materials, processes, packaging and transport. All this...