
Report on the Hamburg Living Lab: strategies to improve organic waste separation
The Hamburg Living Lab, part of the Bin2Bean project, focused on improving the quality of source-separated organic waste, a key priority for the city. In

The Hamburg Living Lab, part of the Bin2Bean project, focused on improving the quality of source-separated organic waste, a key priority for the city. In

The Amsterdam Living Lab represents a crucial research and experimentation initiative, aimed at addressing the complex challenges of food waste management in a high-density urban

The Bin2Bean consortium meeting, held in Egaleo, Greece, on September 9–10, 2025, offered an important opportunity to review progress across all Work Packages and set

The Greek city of Egaleo is actively developing its bio-waste recycling initiatives through the Bin2Bean project. The city is playing a crucial role in supporting the

N³ Nachhaltigkeitsberatung Dr. Friege & Partners, a German consultancy of highly experienced sustainability experts, will be participating in Ecomondo 2025, the leading international trade fair

The Bin2Bean project was showcased at the European Researchers’ Night in Milan on Saturday, September 27th with the aim of bringing science and research closer

Many thanks to the Bin2Bean partners of Wageningen University for their recent open-access paper, ‘Cities in the Loop: A Social Science Perspective on Circular Food

Across Europe, biowaste still represents a largely untapped resource. If properly collected and valorised, it can be transformed into soil improvers, circular fertilisers or renewable

Every year, millions of tonnes of organic waste across Europe are thrown away without realizing that these are precious resources that can be turned into soil improvers.

On March 20, 2025, Bin2Bean partners hosted the online workshop “Biowaste & Waste Charging Systems in the EU: Best Practices, Challenges and Solutions.”

Bin2Bean partners are happy to invite you to this upcoming workshop dealing biowaste management and charging systems. The workshop will feature the intervention of several

To support the industrial growth and scaling of soil improvers for regenerative soil systems, Bin2Bean will provide entrepreneurs—particularly SMEs, start-ups and NGOs as solution providers—with

Last year, Bin2Bean established a page inside the EU CAP Network website. The Network is a forum through which National CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) Networks,

🍌 What is bio-waste?🌍 Why recycle it into the soil?♻️ How to recycle it successfully? We are trying to answer all these questions in our

We have at our disposal a huge amount of unused resources, this is the biowaste that is not recycled and thrown away. Soil improvers, animal

In the first half of 2024, Bin2Bean launched an online survey targeting general European citizens. The aim was to gather inputs from a general audience

Back in July 2024, the Bin2Bean partne N3, visited the biowaste management plan of KWA in Germany. Here is a brief account on the visit,

The international fair in Thessaloniki (T.I.F. 2024) is a good opportunity to showcase Bin2Bean: Because the collection and utilisation of bio-waste is also making progress

The Bin2Bean project team, represented by Joana Wensing and Liesbeth de Schutter of Wageningen University, organized a workshop at the AMS conference “Reinventing the City:

The EU-funded project Bin2Bean aims to increase the quantity and quality of biowaste composts. Bin2Bean focuses on the entire value chain from collection to use.

Did you know that biowaste (such as your carrot peels) can be a very valuable resource for the soil? The Bin2Bean project is supporting a

Setting the stage European citizens produce every year many million tons of bio-waste – mainly food and garden waste. Despite being a key resource to

Are you a civil servant working in a European Municipality? Are you dealing with Environment and Waste Management issues? The Bin2Bean project needs you to

The EU-funded project BIN2BEAN (Boosting the market deployment of safe, effective, and sustainable innovations for soil improvement from bio-waste, towards regenerative soil systems), has just kick-started in September 2023.
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