Frameworks - Circle Economy

HOW TO USE OUR FRAMEWORKS

Frameworks are essential tools for knowledge management and sharing and can be used in a myriad of ways. We use the frameworks on this page in our own research, to structure and prioritise circular interventions; in our online tools, to categorise case studies and guide new learners through the concept of a circular economy; in workshops, to facilitate stakeholder participation and collaborative ideation; and in daily communications, to ensure we have a shared language to discuss this important topic with our stakeholders.
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We invite you to explore these frameworks and put them into practice in your own work. Have you used or developed other frameworks in the past? We also invite you to share them with us through our contact form.

“Ends” Framework

‘Ends’ frameworks help us envision the dot on the horizon and ensure the end goal we are working towards takes key concepts that we care about into account.

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“Means” Framework

‘Means’ frameworks provide us with the tools to translate visions into concrete realities. Where ‘ends’ frameworks put a dot on the horizon, ‘means’ frameworks pave the way.

The National Policy Instrument Framework

A framework of policy instruments that can be used to support the transition to a circular economy at the national level.

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The Key Elements of the Circular Economy Framework

The Key Elements framework is a conceptual framework of eight elements of circularity that can be applied at different intervention levels—from national and regional levels all the way down to products or materials— towards a circular economy.

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The DISRUPT framework

A comprehensive list of circular strategies for products with over 80 tangible strategies that provide guidance and inspiration for you to render your product circular.

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The Circular Product Design Framework

A list of 14 strategies for creating technical products that last, clustered into four groups: design for reuse, design for refurbishment, design for remanufacture and design for recyclability.

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The Urban Policy Framework

A framework of the policy instruments for a more circular economy to support policy- and decision-making.

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The Urban Opportunity Framework

The Urban Opportunity Framework is a framework we created to support urban changemakers in starting their journey towards circularity in cities and to create a shared understanding by presenting city level interventions across pertinent urban themes based on principles of the circular economy. In the Urban Opportunity Framework, circular opportunities are clustered by ‘urban themes’: water, energy, organics, solid waste, buildings, and consumables.

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KNOWLEDGE FRAMEWORKS

Knowledge architecture for the circular economy

HOW TO USE OUR FRAMEWORKS

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The National Policy Instrument Framework

The Key Elements of the Circular Economy Framework

The DISRUPT framework

The Circular Product Design Framework

The Urban Policy Framework

The Urban Opportunity Framework