CDE launches symposium to redefine waste recycling

The event, an evolution of the supplier’s Circular Driven Economy Symposium, will bring together industry partners to discuss opportunities to create new, sustainable revenue streams.

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This October in Brussels, the wet processing equipment supplier CDE Group will host CIRCLE 2025, a waste recycling symposium aimed at bringing global industry front-runners to share insights, analyze trends and discuss opportunities to rethink the industry’s waste burden.

According to CDE, attendees will include material processors, technology experts, legislators and more.

The event comes as an evolution of CDE’s Circular Driven Economy Symposium, which was last hosted in London pre-COVID and attended by delegates from around the world, including research bodies, academic institutions, representatives from the European Commission and multinational construction and manufacturing firms.

“Natural resources are rapidly depleting. This is widely known and accepted,” says CDE Head of Business Development, Europe, Eunan Kelly.

“A conscious effort is absolutely needed to manage these resources wisely. CDE is leading the charge in this field, particularly in Europe, where the legislative landscape is swiftly evolving. … Rising to an industry-wide challenge requires a collective effort to close the gap.”

Kelly says pursuing a more circular economy is not necessarily about replacing every grain of raw material, but rather about offsetting the amount of raw materials used. 

“Recycled and recovered materials won’t ever offset all the demand, but, where we can, we should be supplementing raw materials with recycled products that can achieve the same … results,” he says. “For years, overburden, scalpings and crushed rock fines—byproducts of the quarrying process often miscategorised as waste—have been stockpiled, meanwhile construction, demolition and excavation wastes have been landfilled. There are millions of [tons] of it readily available.”

He further explains that the market needs solutions that can drive down operational costs while creating new and sustainable revenue streams. 

“Right now, many countries across Europe rely on imports of critical raw materials. The extraction and processing of these materials can be costly, both in economic and environmental terms. Factor into this broader climate commitments, and we have a real confluence of challenges,” he says. 

More details on the event and speaker information will be revealed over the coming months, CDE says. To register, visit www.cdegroup.com/circle2025