Closed Loop Partners

In 2024, Palm Beach County was named Florida’s top recycler for the second year in a row, achieving an overall 84% recycling rate, which exceeds the state’s 75% recycling goal. We are proud to share that Circular Services, a Closed Loop Partners company and the largest privately held recycling company in the U.S., has been the operating partner for West Palm Beach’s recycling facility since 2019, processing 8 to 9K tons per month of residential and commercial recyclables. Read more here: https://hubs.la/Q02MYjZd0 #circulareconomy #infrastructure #recycling

In a circular economy, we aim to design out waste from the very beginning and make the most of materials already in play. There are many complementary but distinct design philosophies in the built environment influencing this transformation, such as cradle-to-cradle, biophilic and passive design. Read more in the full report from Closed Loop Partners' Center for the Circular Economy: https://hubs.ly/Q02MK89z0 #builtenvironment #circulardesign #betterbuildings #circulareconomy #infrastructure

Found Energy, a portfolio company of Closed Loop Partners' Ventures Group, is featured in Boston Globe Media for their solution that upcycles contaminated aluminum into clean hydrogen fuel, while also returning the aluminum to its pre-processing state, creating a fully circular loop for the material. “[Aluminum] is the most abundant metal on Earth. It’s double the energy density of diesel on a volume basis. It actually has an infinite shelf life, and we can already use electricity to produce it,” says Peter Godart, Co-founder & CEO of Found Energy. Read more about their technology here: https://hubs.la/Q02LXKdv0 #circulareconomy #recycling #innovation #aluminum #cleanenergy #metal

Capra Biosciences, a portfolio company of Closed Loop Partners' Ventures Group, landed a $7.5 million project agreement to demonstrate how microbes and its proprietary bioreactors can help scale circular manufacturing for pharmaceutical ingredients. “Biomanufacturing has the potential to manufacture many of the chemicals we use today not only more sustainably, but also where and when we need them. This is an extraordinary opportunity to apply the Capra platform to the important issue of pharmaceutical ingredient shortages,” said Elizabeth Onderko, Capra’s Co-founder and CEO. Read more here: https://hubs.la/Q02LLP6X0 #circulareconomy #innovation #manufacturing #pharmaceutical #microbe

Our portfolio company, ERI, the nation’s largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition (ITAD) provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company, launched its first alkaline battery recycling plant. The plant is located within ERI’s state-of-the-art e-waste recycling and ITAD facility in Plainfield, Indiana, where millions of pounds of electronic waste are responsibly recycled each year. ERI can arrange logistics and accept alkaline batteries at all of its eight locations: Arizona, California, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Washington. Read more here: https://hubs.la/Q02LCNsd0 #circulareconomy #recycling #infrastructure #ewaste #electronics #battery

“Reducing waste and improving recycling in this country is possible. It is happening right now in Minnesota with investments like ours and with well-designed material collection and processing systems,” said Jennifer Louie of Closed Loop Partners and Megan Daum of American Beverage on the recent multi-million-dollar loan to Eureka Recycling, a leading nonprofit recycling organization and longstanding player in driving Minneapolis toward material circularity. The more than $10 million loan from Closed Loop Partners’ Infrastructure Group, including $3 million from American Beverage and the Minnesota Beverage Association, will support state-of-the-art upgrades to Eureka’s facility. Alongside the loan, The Recycling Partnership provided a grant to support this project. The financing will fund new, highly efficient optical sorters to separate materials and increase what’s being remade into new products. Read more here: https://hubs.la/Q02LfLjV0 #circulareconomy #partnership #recycling #infrastructure #investment

The latest report from Closed Loop Partners' Center for the Circular Economy explores how we can transform the U.S. built environment from a linear "take-make-waste" model to one embodying circular principles. We identified three key drivers propelling this transition: Innovation, Policy and Partnerships (plus, we spotlight critical investment opportunities and financing gaps). Curious about the circular future of our U.S. built environment? Dive into our full report here: https://hubs.la/Q02Lbc9p0 #builtenvironment #circularbuildings #betterbuildings #circulareconomy #infrastructure #innovation

[NEW REPORT] Today, the #CompostingConsortium, managed by Closed Loop Partners' Center for the Circular Economy, released a new essential blueprint, co-authored with Eco-Cycle, to guide municipal leaders in zero waste, solid waste and sustainability in establishing and scaling composting infrastructure and organics management programs across the U.S. Alongside the release of the blueprint, the Consortium invites U.S. municipalities and composters to join two newly launched platforms that support counties, cities and composters in scaling organics infrastructure that diverts food waste from landfill: the Composter Innovator Program and the Municipal Partner Platform. Learn more here: https://hubs.la/Q02Kpz5F0 #circulareconomy #compost #composting #infrastructure #municipality #city #county

Closed Loop Partners partnered with American Beverage to provide a multi-million-dollar catalytic loan to Balcones Recycling. This is part of a $68 million investment across several partners in the new state-of-the-art materials recovery facility in San Antonio, Texas. Balcones is the recycling arm of Circular Services, one of the largest independent privately held recycling companies in the U.S. “Closed Loop Partners is proud to be a longstanding partner of the American Beverage Association, working collaboratively to strengthen recycling infrastructure and advance a circular economy for materials in the U.S. We are excited to support the development of Balcones’ facility in San Antonio alongside a diverse group of stakeholders and financing partners,” says Jennifer Louie, Managing Director and Head of the Closed Loop Infrastructure Group at Closed Loop Partners. Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q02K5QLp0 #infrastructure #circulareconomy #recycling

This week, our friends at Perpetual: shared a behind-the-scenes Q&A on the Petaluma Reusable Cup Project with Kate Daly, Managing Director and Head of Closed Loop Partners' Center for the Circular Economy. Starting August 5, more than 30 restaurants in the City of Petaluma, CA, will swap their single-use cups for to-go reusable cups to all customers at no cost, and widespread return points will also be available across the city. Starbucks, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Peet's Coffee, Yum! Brands and other global and local brands and restaurants are partnering in The Petaluma Reusable Cup Project from the #NextGen Consortium, led by the Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners. "Our brand partners in the NextGen Consortium bring a spirit of collaboration to all our work together, knowing that collaboration and innovation are critical to scale successful recovery and reuse solutions. We know that reuse of to-go cups is challenging, and that it’s going to take experimentation to figure out how to get reuse right and ensure high return rates," says Kate Daly. Read the Q&A here: https://hubs.la/Q02JLH6P0 #circulareconomy #reuse #reuserevolution #returnmycup