Q4 Network Meeting participants engaging during the Producer-Led Innovation Session. On Wednesday 3 rd  December we hosted our final CIRCULÉIRE member networking session of 2025: Producer Responsibility as a Driver of Circular Innovation Across High-Impact Sectors. Co-hosted in partnership with WEEE Ireland , this collaborative session explored how producer responsibility (through Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes or voluntary initiatives) can drive circular val

At centre: Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon, T.D. (Photo sourced from Minister Martin Heydon's LinkedIn post). Last week, we joined the launch of Bioeconomy Ireland Week 2025 in Tullamore where Minister Martin Heydon announced that Ireland will host the Global Bioeconomy Summit in 2026 during its EU Presidency.    The event showcased how Ireland’s bioeconomy is moving from research to real deployment, with discussions on

National Repair and Reuse Network 2025 Meeting CIRCULÉIRE’s dedicated policy engagement leaders have been hard at work in the circular economy policy spheres across Ireland and Europe, advocating for a regulatory landscape that spearheads circular economy. Here are some highlights of key policy events in the first quarter of the year.   National Repair and Reuse Network The NRRN launched by the EPA in 2024 aims to facilitate knowledge sharing and scale reuse and repair initia

Tuesday 8th April, IMR Mullingar, Co Westmeath CIRCULÉIRE members and staff gathered for the special visit Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR), as Secretariat of CIRCULÉIRE, was delighted to welcome Alan Dillon TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Circular Economy,   to their Mullingar RD&I Lab to showcase CIRCULÉIRE services and members’ circularity in action. Award winning enterprise and industry representatives from a cross-sectoral cohort of circular b

On Wednesday 26th of March 2025 CIRCULÉIRE and Repak collaborated to deep dive into PPWR Regulations as a driver for circular innovation

What a week as our founding member Freefoam Building Products Ltd played host to the CIRCULÉIRE network for another jam packed agenda full with great participation at our June Network meeting 2024. 👏 Firstly huge shout out for the warm welcome from Freefoam CEO Aidan Harte and from Kevin Cronin , Patricia Hegarty and the entire team for their time and hospitality giving us the opportunity to tour the Freefoam site. This is a fully sustainable business that demonstrates h

Earlier this month, the WCEF2024 brought more than 1,500 frontrunners of circularity to Brussels, Belgium. The event was followed online by almost 8,000 people around the world from 158 countries. The forum, which took place in Brussels 15-18 April 2024, highlighted the importance of the EU’s role in accelerating the transition to a circular economy globally. A delegation from CIRCULÉIRE lead by Dr Geraldine Brennan Geraldine Brennan, PhD with Paul McCormack-Cooney Vale

On Friday 2nd February, CIRCULÉIRE welcomed the programme board of the D UTCH TECH ZONE - a delegation of approximately 25 people to CIRCULÉIRE member N ovelplast t o showcase Circular Innovation and to stimulate discussions on opportunities for further collaboration and networking with Dutch Companies, in the wider European manufacturing and CE Ecoystem. The delegation, comprised of regional government, higher educational institutions and eight cross sectoral companies wo

In November 2022, CIRCULÉIRE, in collaboration with its secretariat Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR), was granted funding and entrusted with the task of developing a proposal for a Center for Excellence for Circular Innovation. As Ireland’s National Platform for Circular Economy, CIRCULÉIRE aims to continue scaling industry-led circular innovation while leveraging existing expertise and activity within the national circular innovation ecosystem. This significant announcemen

In May 2023 the Circular Economy Hotspot came to Dublin under the leadership of the Rediscovery Centre and with the support of CIRCULÉIRE, Department for the Environment, Climate, and Communications , Dublin City Council , and the Eastern & Midlands, Regional Waste Planning Office . This week-long event, which ran from Monday 29th of May until Thursday 1st of June highlighted the ground-breaking circular economy initiatives, best practices, and innovation on display in Irela

Circular Change is the Slovenian network for the circular economy, their annual conference is one of the key European meeting points of circular economy changemakers. This year’s 5th edition has been transformed into a “roadshow” that consists of 5 events based on 5 partnerships from June until the end of 2020! Within these 5 virtual sessions, key challenges and opportunities for the Circular Transition in the perspective of Post-COVID-19 green recovery will be highlighted. T

Read in this Silicon Republic interview in Science Uncovered about how CIRCULÉIRE’s Programme Manager, Dr Geraldine Brennan came to work on the circular economy and how the power of the circular economy comes from viewing it as an umbrella concept and developing circular configurations from combining multiple circular strategies.

CIRCULÉIRE’s 2020 Thematic Working Group (TWG) Series is now live with our Circular Bioeconomy TWG kicking-off in mid-June chaired by IMR in collaboration with the Irish Bioeconomy Foundation.

CIRCULÉIRE – The National Platform for Circular Manufacturing is the first national, cross-sectoral industry-led innovation network dedicated to accelerating the net-zero carbon circular economy in Ireland.