How can your business forge a successful, circular partnership?
Collaboration is key to transition to a resilient, circular economy. Whereas the need for collaboration in the circular economy is largely understood, in practice, it often poses challenges.
This guide supports businesses to collaborate for a circular economy. Using the example of circular food packaging, it shows how businesses can identify and establish successful collaborations and together realise circular products. Based on interviews with 17 stakeholders, the guide introduces four collaboration types, outlines nine steps to successful collaborations, and identifies 14 roles and nine characteristics to identify attractive and suitable partners.
With the European Textile Regulation(1007/2011) entering into force in 2011, requirements on labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products were harmonized throughout the EuropeanUnion. However, in 2018, doubts were raised on the accuracy of these composition claims on labels on the Dutch market. With the introduction of the Fibersort, a technology able to categorise textiles based on their composition, deviations between the fibre categorisations given by the Fibersort and the composition claims on labels became apparent to sorters. The Ministry of Infrastructure & Waterways has commissioned Circle Economy to investigate the assumption that labels on garments are inaccurate, to map the consequences of inaccurate composition claims on labels, and to identify the measures required to tackle the challenge of misleading labels. This report summarises the outcomes and conclusions of this research.
During 2019, Circle Economy conducted a scoping study commissioned by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, on the “Global environmental and socio-economic effects of pursuing a circular economy in the Netherlands and the EU”. The scope of the study had a focus on exploring impacts in low-income countries. The study provides a deep dive into two exemplary products (denim jeans and mobile phones) with globalised value chains (both upstream and downstream) and significant potential for circular economy initiatives. From resource extraction to end-of-life, the study visualises and highlights the most important countries involved in these value chains. It also describes the potential impacts of Dutch and EU circular economy policies on countries outside the EU by looking at indicators such as land use, pollution of water and soil, work and income, CO2 emissions and health and safety.
The Amsterdam City Doughnut takes the global concept of the Doughnut, developed by Kate Raworth, and turns it into a tool for transformative action in the city of Amsterdam.
It marks the first public presentation of the holistic approach to ‘downscaling the Doughnut’, combining local aspiration with global responsibility. How can our city be a thriving home to thriving people, while respecting the planetary boundaries?
The Amsterdam City Doughnut has been developed in collaboration between Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL), Circle Economy, Biomimicry 3.8 and C40 over the course of one year. It is at the core of the City of Amsterdam’s broader ambitions for becoming a circular city, the Amsterdam Circular Strategy 2020-2025.
(The full Amsterdam Circular Strategy 2020/2025 is available for download on the website of the City of Amsterdam.)
This report explores the key barriers and critical success factors for an effective market uptake of post-consumer recycled textiles and automated sorting technologies, such as the Fibersort, in the long term in North-West Europe. This report is the final publication of the Fibersort Interreg NWE project. These barriers and success factors are portrayed through case studies of organisations across the textiles value chain active in implementing solutions to enable a thriving end-of-use for textiles.
The Circular Jobs Initiative is working towards a positive transition to circularity for work and workers. The initiative is a knowledge centre that combines academic knowledge with practical piloting, working in collaboration with a network of stakeholders.
Through the lens of the initiative's three core pillars—skilling, quality of jobs and inclusivity—Jobs & Skills in the Circular Economy: State Of Play And Future Pathways provides an overview of how current labour market issues apply to the circular economy transition, the opportunities that circularity presents for the labour market and the challenges that need to be overcome to achieve a future labour market that enables people and the planet to thrive.
Learn more about the Circular Jobs Initiative.
The Fibersort project aims at realising the widespread implementation of the technology by validating it as a key value adding innovation to enable textile-to-textile recycling.
While post-consumer textiles are currently struggling to successfully find textile-to-textile recycling end-markets, this report explores existing and potential end-markets for PCT, sorted according to their characteristics, and assesses the potential of different business models for brands and manufacturers to successfully integrate recycled textiles.
This paper examines the association between circular strategies imposed by European cities on the attraction of greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) and the creation of circular gross employment through greenfield FDI. We utilise a recently developed database of circular strategies employed by local authorities in 43 European cities with information on greenfield FDI in these cities and other city characteristics for the years 2016–2017. We find that urban circular policies are positively and significantly associated with the attraction of greenfield FDI–generated employment, where the effect is stronger for regulatory and economic instruments compared to soft instruments.
Tracking the value of modular assets in a PaaS proposition is of utmost importance. It can improve circular decision making with regards to the cascading of components like refurbishing, re-using or recycling and improves predictive maintenance. In this report you will find the findings of the Community of Practice Tracking Value. The mission of this CoP was to tackle the complexities around tracking assets, with a focus on identity, location and condition of the assets. The relevant existing technologies have been explored and the financial and legal implications of tracking assets have been investigated.
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