{"id":1185,"date":"2026-04-13T14:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:04:20","slug":"crcl-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/batch-3-eng\/crcl-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"CRCL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-fd412670 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:27px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/crcl.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-311\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4299065960869586;width:302px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"1281\" src=\"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teams_CRCL-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-779\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4\/3;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teams_CRCL-edited.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teams_CRCL-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teams_CRCL-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teams_CRCL-edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teams_CRCL-edited-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teams_CRCL-edited-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teams_CRCL-edited-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Teams_CRCL-edited-1280x961.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gr\u00fcnder Lauritz Schmidt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"taxonomy-category is-style-post-terms-1 is-style-post-terms-1--1 wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/category\/batch-3-eng\/\" rel=\"tag\">Batch #3<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Out of the 92 million tons of textile waste generated worldwide each year, 87% is either landfilled or incinerated, placing an enormous burden on the environment and significantly contributing to global warming. The founders of <strong>CRCL <\/strong>have developed an innovative process that transforms textile waste and plastic waste into a resource-efficient and circular granulate called Apatura. This granulate is a truly viable alternative to virgin plastic, both economically and ecologically. It opens up a wide range of applications, for example in the furniture industry for the production of high-quality and sustainable interior products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crcloflife.de\/\">Website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the 92 million tons of textile waste generated worldwide each year, 87% is either landfilled or incinerated, placing an enormous burden on the environment and significantly contributing to global warming. The founders of CRCL have developed an innovative process that transforms textile waste and plastic waste into a resource-efficient and circular granulate called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batch-3-eng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}