The community in Amsterdam that has become a laboratory for the circular economy

Buiksloterham, a polluted former dockyard in Amsterdam, has become a laboratory for new environmental ideas for reusing and regenerating every element of human life.

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This is Buiksloterham in Amsterdam, once a thriving port - now a polluted old dockyard close to the centre of the city. An industrial wasteland being reborn as a 21st century laboratory for the circular economy.

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