We organise our actions in six thematic & strategic agendas:
Strategic Agendas:
Bio-economy
Circular Construction
Chemicals/Plastics
Manufacturing Industry
Food Chain
Water Cycles
Seven leverages provide additional support:
Leverage effects:
Lever Policy Instruments
Lever Circular Procurement
Lever Communication
Lever Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Lever Financing
Lever Jobs & Skills
Lever Research
What, why and how?
Why are we pursuing a circular economy?
Future visions 2050
How do we see our circular future?
About our management
Who steers what at Flanders Circular?
Satellic, a Belgian company based in Diegem has been the main toll operator in Belgium since 2014. In less than two years, they designed, built and financed the entire road pricing system for trucks over 3.5 tonnes and N1 BC vehicles.
Today, Satellic has installed more than 600,000 On Board Units (OBU) in trucks from more than 100 different countries. All these units also mean a lot of materials. That is why at Satellic they started working on recycling mechanisms for the OBUs from day one. A partner was sought and soon the company ended up with WAAK.
WAAK employs people who, because of a physical or mental disability, have a distance to the regular labour market where it is difficult or impossible for them to find work. Their social mission? Social entrepreneurship with attention to the environment, welfare, health and equal opportunities.
Every year, tens of thousands of defective OBUs end up at WAAK. A permanent team of employees there now keeps some 100,000 OBUs in top condition every year. This allows these devices to be reused repeatedly by truck drivers driving on Belgian roads. A strong partnership based on a shared vision of sustainability.
The cooperating partners are therefore strongly committed to making users of the systems aware of the importance of returning the OBUs in their entirety, and therefore chooses to fully refund the deposit of the OBUs upon return.