Companies, startups, eco-organizations, and regions must now transform their models to address the challenges of resources, waste, and emissions.
However, the most effective solutions rarely arise alone: they emerge from complementary partnerships capable of industrializing circularity.
The Circular Alliance Awards recognize projects that are already up and running, showing that it's possible to balance environmental impact, economic viability, and creating value for everyone.
This edition, supported by ChangeNOW, The Good, and Bpifrance, attracted more than fifty entries covering a wide range of sectors, including reuse, traceability, new economic models, and responsible event management.
Discover the three winning initiatives
Category Collaboration Enterprise × Startup
Reuse of packaging in the restaurant industry - Pandobac × Transgourmet France.
Winners: Shu Zhang (Co-founder & CEO, Pandobac) and Amélie Riou (CSR Manager, Transgourmet France).
To reduce packaging waste in the professional catering industry, Pandobac and Transgourmet have rolled out a solution involving reusable containers integrated into the food supply chain.
This project enables:
- the elimination of disposable packaging
- optimized logistics for restaurant owners
- a large-scale, economically viable model
It illustrates the ability of a startup and a distributor to transform an entire industry together.
Category Collaboration 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Games
Solidarity-based reuse of furniture - Emmaus France × Ecomaison × Paris 2024
Winners: Tarek Daher (General Delegate, Emmaus France), Dominique Mignon (President, Ecomaison), and Caroline Louis (Head of Circular Economy, Paris 2024)
As part of the Paris 2024 Games, thousands of pieces of temporary furniture had to be processed after the event.
The project enabled their reuse to be organized via the Emmaus solidarity network.
Impacts:
- significant reduction in event waste
- social utility creation
- replicable model for other major events
Category: Multi-stakeholder collaboration
Product passport for household appliances — Fnac Darty × ecosystem × Arianee
Winners: Vincent Gufflet (Director of Operations & Services and member of the Executive Committee, Fnac Darty), Xavier Lantoinette (Director of Environmental Performance, ecosystem), and Pierre-Nicolas Hurstel (CEO & Co-founder, Arianee)
The partners have developed a digital product passport that tracks the history of a household appliance: maintenance, repair, and recycling.
Objectives:
- extend the service life of equipment
- facilitate repair
- improve end-of-life management
This project is a building block for a truly circular household appliance industry.
Highlighting circularity in action
This year's award-winning projects demonstrate a major shift: the transition to the circular economy is no longer just experimental, it is becoming operational.
Industrialized reuse, digital traceability, shared logistics: these are all models that show that collaboration is now one of the main drivers of transformation.
The next edition of the Circular Alliance Awards will be launched in April 2026 during the Club Circul’R event at Bpifrance.
Because circularity cannot be built alone, it is built through alliances.
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