Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy

Circular Economy Innovation - Scale360°

This Action aligns to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda:

Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition (Capital Equipment, CTA 9)
Guide and Support New Business Models for Environmental, Financial, and Social Triple-Win (Electronics, CTA 4; Textiles, CTA 4; Plastics, CTA 5)
Incentivize and Support Product Design and Investment in Circularity (Electronics, CTA 1)

Location

Global

Ambition of Scale360°

Short-term: Fast-tracking Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) impact in the circular economy by supporting bottom-up innovation and entrepreneurship.

Long-term: Mobilize action among innovators, governments and private sector stakeholders to grow the ecosystem for circular 4IR technology innovation—and in doing so, support the achievement of the sustainable development goals.

Why do we need systemic approaches?

The linear economy is extremely wasteful, straining the planet’s resources. These are some of the resulting challenges:

The extraction and processing of natural resources significantly contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions
Only 9% of extracted materials are currently reused, the remainder being lost or wasted
Digital, physical and biological technologies might offer solutions, but are currently not linked or scaled

How does SCALE360° contribute to accelerating the circular economy?

Scale360° is a global partnership between key stakeholders in government, business and civil society to assess specific marketplace challenges in local economies and design relevant interventions that stimulate the circular economy innovation within cities, countries, and regions. Coupled with these interventions, Scale360° fosters an active, global community on UpLink, the World Economic Forum’s first open platform for digital collaboration.

The Scale360° initiative, built during 2020, aims to leverage new digital technologies and innovations that have already revolutionized sectors like healthcare, mobility and education to accelerate the circular transition. Innovative approaches and new collaborators can reimagine the way materials and products flow within economies—moving away from the current “take-make-dispose” model towards a circular one.

What role do global partnerships play?

Scale360° partners work to build and scale solutions together with activities tailored to local needs. Advisory board members include government leaders, business executives, impact investors, and local experts who shape and scale the programme.

Partners

World Economic Forum (Leading Partner). United Arab Emirates Ministries of the Prime Minister, Cabinet Affairs, Climate Change and Environment, and Artificial Intelligence, Chile Ministry of Environment, 2030 Water Resources Group, Accenture, Circular Valley, Circulate Capital, ENEL, Fashion for Good, Google, IDEO, Kearney, Majid Al Futtaim, Phillips, Polymateria, ScaleUpNation, SGInnovate, SOFOFA, TriCiclos, WWF

Circular Economy Innovation - Scale360°

Cross-Cutting Initiatives

Circular Economy Innovation - Scale360°

This Action aligns to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda:

Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition (Capital Equipment, CTA 9)
Guide and Support New Business Models for Environmental, Financial, and Social Triple-Win (Electronics, CTA 4; Textiles, CTA 4; Plastics, CTA 5)
Incentivize and Support Product Design and Investment in Circularity (Electronics, CTA 1)

Location

Global

Ambition of Scale360°

Short-term: Fast-tracking Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) impact in the circular economy by supporting bottom-up innovation and entrepreneurship.

Why do we need systemic approaches?

The linear economy is extremely wasteful, straining the planet’s resources. These are some of the resulting challenges:

The extraction and processing of natural resources significantly contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions
Only 9% of extracted materials are currently reused, the remainder being lost or wasted
Digital, physical and biological technologies might offer solutions, but are currently not linked or scaled

How does SCALE360° contribute to accelerating the circular economy?

What role do global partnerships play?

Partners

Circular Economy Innovation - Scale360°

Cross-Cutting Initiatives

Circular Economy Innovation - Scale360°

This Action aligns to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda:

Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition (Capital Equipment, CTA 9)
Guide and Support New Business Models for Environmental, Financial, and Social Triple-Win (Electronics, CTA 4; Textiles, CTA 4; Plastics, CTA 5)
Incentivize and Support Product Design and Investment in Circularity (Electronics, CTA 1)

Location

Global

Ambition of Scale360°

Short-term: Fast-tracking Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) impact in the circular economy by supporting bottom-up innovation and entrepreneurship.

Why do we need systemic approaches?

The linear economy is extremely wasteful, straining the planet’s resources. These are some of the resulting challenges:

The extraction and processing of natural resources significantly contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions
Only 9% of extracted materials are currently reused, the remainder being lost or wasted
Digital, physical and biological technologies might offer solutions, but are currently not linked or scaled

How does SCALE360° contribute to accelerating the circular economy?

What role do global partnerships play?

Partners

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Textiles

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SIPtex: automated textile sorting

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Textiles

SIPtex: automated textile sorting

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Textiles:

6. Strategically plan collection, sorting, and recycling operations

7. Increase efficiency and quality in textile sorting

8. Make the recycled fibers market competitive

Ambition

SIPtex wants to serve as the bridge between today’s sorting and high-quality recycling by matching customer needs with fast and high-quality sorting, better conditions are created for increased fiber-to-fiber recycling. It is the world's first large-scale facility of its kind. It sorts textiles by color and fiber composition using near-infrared light, which makes it possible to handle large flows and produce textile fractions that are adapted to different recycling processes.

Objectives

Siptex – led by IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and funded by Vinnova - is a step 3 project within the Challenge-driven innovation program. The first and the second steps were conducted between June 2015 and August 2018. The project is currently undergoing its third, and last, step - the implementation phase – which will end in 2022. In this phase, the objective is to create conditions for a commercial operation of the SIPTex facility and to produce three operation-oriented work packages and four market-oriented work packages:

Operation-oriented: (1) Construction and operation of the SIPTex plant, (2) Sorting optimization and (3) Efficient management of textile waste.

Market-oriented: (1) Markets and business likeness, (2) Quality assurance of recycling products, (3) Environmental assessments of recycling products and (4) Stakeholder cooperation.

Partners

IVL, Berendsen, Boer Group, Refashion, Gina Tricot, H&M, Human Bridge, ICA, IKEA, KappAhl, KEMI, Göteborg Kretslopp och Vatten, Malmö Stad, Myrorna, Naturvårdsverket, Re:newcell, Röda Korset (Red Cross), Stadium, Stockholm Vatten och Avfall, Sysav (owner of the facility)

Greening with Jobs - World Employment and Social Outlook

Textiles Action Network

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Textiles

Textiles Action Network

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Textiles:

1. Incentivize and Support Design for Longevity and Recyclability

3. Encourage the Market to Use Less Clothing, and for Longer

4. Guide and Support New Business Models for Environmental, Financial, and Social Triple-Win

To create positive impact, we have to turn global ambitions for circular clothing into tangible action points that can be taken up by local actors”

- David Rogers, Head of International Resource Management at WRAP

Location

Global and National (UK, Textiles 2030)

Leading partner

WRAP, a charity working with governments, businesses, and communities to deliver practical solutions to improve resource efficiency.

Ambition of the Textiles Action Network project

WRAP aims to develop global goals for a circular clothing economy and facilitate their translation into national frameworks with measurable targets.

They focus on three long-term ambitions set out in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's vision of a circular economy for fashion:

1) Circular Design – Clothes are made to be made again

2) Circular Manufacture – Clothes are made from safe and renewable or recycled inputs

3) Circular Retail – Clothes are used more

Why do we need the Textiles Action Network?

There is an urgent need to address the catastrophic environmental impacts of Fast Fashion. The current clothing system is extremely inefficient. It is estimated that more than half of fast fashion produced is disposed of in under a year[1].

To shift to a sustainable textile industry will require a radical re-imagining of the current linear models. Many initiatives are already trying to combat this and drive a move to a circular economy – however, they all fall short.

Currently, there is no proven, coordinated way of delivering change that harnesses government involvement and industry leadership, connects existing initiatives, and holds them to account.

How will the Textiles Action Network facilitate the transition to a circular clothing industry?

WRAP has an extensive track record of delivering change through the use of Voluntary Agreements. These have proven effective across multiple industry sectors and in multiple countries around the world and offer an alternative policy option to cumbersome, expensive, and inflexible legislation. WRAP has used its experience in developing these agreements to produce a ‘Blueprint’ to facilitate the successful delivery of national agreements across food and plastics.

Project partner WRI has complimentary experience in both metric setting and policy engagement which underpin the successful implementation of such agreements. With funding from the Laudes Foundation (formerly C&A Foundation), WRAP will work closely with other key players in the circular fashion space to establish an effective, replicable model for national circular clothing action Plans.

Textiles 2030™

In April 2021, WRAP introduced the UK's Sustainable Textiles Action Plan: Textiles 2030™. This ambitious new initiative is on a mission to transform the fashion and textiles sector into a climate-neutral and profitable industry that is fit for the future. With over 35 organisations signed up, Textiles 2030™ is bringing the whole fashion and textiles industry together with governments, research institutes, innovators and disruptors with a bold commitment to make fashion more sustainable and tackle climate change.

What are the next steps?

The following steps are planned:

Map out existing circular clothing initiatives and define gaps

Develop global targets
Find an in-country partner and win the support of the national government
Build a steering committee with important local players from across the fashion supply chain
Define national framework in cooperation with local stakeholders
Develop governance structure and allocate funding

Agree on most impactful interventions and roadmap
Establish metrics, data collection method, and reporting standard
Run pilot in-country
Produce a Blueprint on how to set up a Voluntary Agreement on Circular Fashion
Evaluate project results and disseminate achievements and lessons learned

Successful completion of the project will be expanded on two dimensions:

Share learning with the parallel agreement in the UK
Replicate the project in other countries

[1] Ellen Macarthur Foundation, A new Textiles Economy (2017) https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/assets/downloads/publications/A-New-Textiles-Economy_Full-Report_Updated_1-12-17.pdf

Partners

WRAP, the World Resources Institute

Contact

textilesactionnetwork@wrap.org.uk

danishcircularpact@wrap.org.uk

Make Fashion Circular

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Textiles

Make Fashion Circular

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Textiles:

1. Incentivize and Support Design for Longevity and Recyclability

3. Encourage the market to use less clothing, and for longer

2. Produce Virgin Natural Fibers Sustainably, Including Land Use

Location

Global

Led by

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, committed to the creation of a circular economy that tackles some of the biggest challenges of our time, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Driven by design, a circular economy eliminates waste and pollution, keeps products and materials in use, and regenerates natural systems, creating benefits for society, the environment, and the economy.

What’s the ambition behind Make Fashion Circular?

Launched in May 2017 by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Make Fashion Circular brings together leaders from across the fashion industry to work with cities, philanthropists, NGOs, and innovators. Make Fashion Circular is leading international efforts to stop waste and pollution in fashion by creating a circular economy for the industry, where products (apparel, footwear and accessories) are used more, are made to be made again and are made from safe and recycled or renewable inputs.

Why is today’s textile industry problematic?

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation report, A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion’s future, identifies the fashion industry’s current take-make-dispose model as the root cause of its environmental problems and economic value loss, including:

Resource use. 53 million tonnes of clothing are produced annually. More than 97% of the fibre consists of virgin - mostly non-renewable resources, including oil to produce synthetic fibres, fertilisers to grow natural fibres, and chemicals to dye textiles.
Economic value. Every year, the industry misses out on billions of dollars through clothing that is barely worn, discarded too early and not recycled. For example, more than 73% of used clothes are incinerated or disposed of in landfills leading to USD100 billion worth of materials being lost each year.
Climate change. Global emissions from the clothing industry amounted to 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 in 2015. This exceeds the combined footprint of all international flights and maritime shipping.
Environmental pollution. Textile production not only has a negative impact on the factory workers and their local environment, using plastic-based textiles, such as polyester, also contributes significantly to plastic microfibres leaking into our oceans.
Societal impacts. People producing clothes often suffer poor working conditions, including long working hours, hazardous work environments and low pay.

How will Make Fashion Circular transform the textiles industry?

Make Fashion Circular brings together leaders from across the fashion industry, including brands, municipalities, NGOs, and innovators behind a shared vision to radically redesign the fashion industry. Projects to date include #WearNext and The Jeans Redesign

The Jeans Redesign

In July 2019, the Foundation’s Make Fashion Circular initiative launched The Jeans Redesign, a project which saw 80 industry experts input on a set of guidelines to create denim jeans aligned with the principles of the circular economy. Two years on from launch, participating brands of The Jeans Redesign have put more than half a million pairs of jeans fit for a circular economy on the market, meeting minimum requirements for durability, traceability, and recyclability, while using safe materials and processes. The Jeans Redesign: Insights from the first two years revealed the barriers, solutions and innovation gaps faced by the 72 brands, retailers, garment manufacturers, fabric mills and laundries. In July 2021, 28 new participants joined the project bringing the total number of participants taking action to redesign jeans to 94.

Partners

Make Fashion Circular brings together industry leaders including Strategic Partner H&M Group and Partners, Inditex, Lacoste, Primark, PVH Corp, and Ralph Lauren Corporation to drive momentum towards the Make Fashion Circular vision and scale solutions globally.

Find out more about Make Fashion Circular here.

Technologies for Upcycling Cotton and Cellulosic Waste

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Food Systems

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FoodFlow

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Food Systems

FoodFlow

This Action aligns to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Food:

4. Better Understand Hotspots of Food Loss and Waste

5. Integrate Food Loss and Waste More Broadly in the SDG Agenda

6. Increase Investment in Food Loss and Waste Reduction

7. Reframe Wasted Food and Byproducts as Valuable Resources

8. Facilitate Secondary Market Development and Access

10. Increase Information Accessibility and Data Utilization

“We believe reducing post-harvest food loss is a flywheel to driving sustainable change in the Kenyan food system.”

- Fennie Lansbergen, Director East Africa at Enviu

Location

Kenya

Leading partner

Enviu, a foundation that designs and builds innovative ventures that drive the transition towards tomorrow’s economy.

Ambition behind FoodFlow

Short-term: Showcase a professional 0% loss fruit & vegetable chain for the domestic market in Kenya.

Long-term: Enable third party businesses to scale proven concepts throughout East Africa to create an inclusive commercial value chain and increase farmer’s resilience.

The African fruit and vegetable market

The African fresh-food system needs to become more sustainable.

Smallholder farmers: lack of access to technology, knowledge about farming practices, commercial markets, and financial products
Food loss: more than 40% of fruit- and vegetables is lost post-harvest
Trading chain: poor logistics and too many traders in the chain

Context

In East Africa almost half of all fruits and vegetables are lost on their route to market. This has consequences, it means farmers can't earn a real living, that there isn't enough nutritious, affordable food and both resources and carbon emissions are being wasted on food that never makes it to market. To feed the growing population, the amount of food reaching the market needs to see a 60% increase by 2050.

Our FoodFlow program creates a showcase value chain for French beans, mangos and avocados by developing the technology needed to drive out post-harvest losses and create a flourishing value chain for all. Our ambition is to build a value chain made up of sustainable, circular business models, achieving 0% post-harvest loss, increasing incomes and improving food security. The goal is to grow this showcase chain to other crops and regions throughout East Africa and beyond. Joining forces with the group of food experts within the PACE network and building on their successes, failures, skills, technologies and network, will immensely help to realize the envisioned change.

Plan of action

FoodFlow is currently integrating four key interventions in one value chain for French beans, mangos and avocados. These interventions are developed and tested in the chain, in order to scale at a later stage.

SokoFresh – An agritech start-up piloting mobile cold storage as a service at farmgate for aggregation of produce. They work together with the local governments of the counties Murang'a, Kitui, Kajiado and Kiambu, which provide them with land to use.
Taimba – A mobile-based platform scaling the farm to fork concept. They buy produce from farmers, sell it to small retailers online, and deliver it directly to their stores.
Processing as a service for the smallholder farmer (in development).

Online market linkage, to directly link farmers to larger buyers (in development).

Project Partners

Enviu, Rabobank, IKEA Foundation, UKAID, Doen Foundation, and RVO (Rijksdienst voor ondernmened Nederland), Argidius

Denmark against Food Waste

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Food Systems

Denmark against Food Waste

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Food:

4. Better Understand Hotspots of Food Loss and Waste

5. Integrate Food Loss and Waste More Broadly in the SDG Agenda

6. Increase Investment in Food Loss and Waste Reduction

10. Increase Information Accessibility and Data Utilization

“To fight food waste, we need a united movement and we believe that the setup of our think tank could serve as an inspiration for other countries and industries.”

- Anne Lerche, Head of Secretariat, ONE\THIRD

Project location

Denmark

Leading partner

ONE\THIRD, a think tank operating as an independent organization under the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food.

Ambition behind ‘Denmark against food waste’

Short-term: Unite Danish food producers and retailers behind the commitment to halve the country’s food waste by 2030.

Long-term: Showcase a model for successful cross-sector collaboration to solve social-environmental challenges in Denmark and around the world.

Food loss and waste in Denmark and around the world

Across the global food chain, more than one third of food is lost or wasted. This amounts to 1.3 billion tons of food wasted globally and 700.000 tons of food being thrown away in Denmark every year.

This has several consequences for our planet, humanity and our global economy:

Resource use: Globally, 1.4 billion hectares of agricultural land and 250km3 of water are used to produce food that is lost or wasted.
Hunger: The food lost or wasted globally could be used to feed 2 billion people.
Climate change: The global carbon footprint of food waste is estimated at 3.3 billion tons of CO2 equivalent of GHG annually. In Denmark, the annual carbon footprint of food waste is estimated 2,3 million tons of CO2.

Economic value: Around the world, food worth $940b is lost or wasted every year.

How ‘Denmark against food waste’ prevents food loss and waste

'Denmark against food waste’ is a voluntary agreement that unites 25+ food producers and retailers behind a shared mission: to halve food waste by 2030.

This is their plan of action:

ONE\THIRD identifies partners across the food chain in relevant Danish regions.

The organizations sign a voluntary agreement to measure their progress on reducing food waste and report it to a neutral third party.
The members of the voluntary agreement co-develop a methodology and metrics to measure food waste reliably.
The applicability of the measurements is tested.
ONE\THIRD publishes a yearly report on general progress on preventing food waste and loss in Denmark.
ONE\THIRD explores possibilities to replicate the model in other regions or industries.

Partners

Aldi, Alfred Pedersen & Søn ApS, Appetize+, Carletti, Carlsberg Danmark, COOP, Dragrofa, Danish Crown, Hørkram, Jespers Torvekøkken, Kohberg, McDonalds, Meyers Madhus, Naturmælk, Nemlig.com, Nestlé, Orkla, Peter Larsen Kaffe, Regionshospitalet Randers, Salling Group, APPLiA, Bispebjerg og Frederiksberg Hospital, Chr. Hansen, Daka Danmark, Dansk Industri, Dansk Erhverv, Eachthing, eSmiley, FødevareBanken, Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, Horesta, Landbrug Foedevare, Rema 1000, Stop spild lokalt, Stryhns, Stop Spild Af Mad, Danmarks Restauranter & Cafeer (DRC), De Samvirkende Købmænd, Aarstiderne, Arla, Danish Region Hovedstaden, Local Government Denmark (KL).

Ellen MacArthur Food Initiative

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Food Systems

Ellen MacArthur Food Initiative

This Action aligns to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Food:

2. Scale Productive and Regenerative Agriculture Practices

4. Better Understand Hotspots of Food Loss and Waste

7. Reframe Wasted Food and Byproducts as Valuable Resources

Location

Global

Led by

Long term ambition

The Ellen MacArthur Food Initiative seeks to create unstoppable momentum towards a regenerative food system based on the principles of a circular economy.

Context

The linear food system is ripe for disruption. While the industrial food system has generated many benefits, it is also highly extractive and wasteful, proving to be unfit to feed the world in a way that is healthy both for people and natural systems in the long term
The circular economy offers a vision for a food system fit for the future
Cities can trigger a shift to a better food system. Businesses, public bodies, organisations, and people within cities can accelerate the global transition to a healthy, regenerative food system underpinned by circular economy principles

Objectives

Mobilise a cross-sector public-private stakeholder consortium to realise the circular model for food in cities around the world
Illustrate the vision with a number of city demonstrator projects

Project description

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Cities and Circular Economy for Food report has highlighted the often-underappreciated role urban food actors can play to drive food system transformation. It demonstrated that using the catalytic potential of cities to spark change can be a powerful addition to the landscape of efforts needed to transform our relationship with food, highlighting that now is the time to make it happen. The Food initiative is activating unprecedented collaboration to mobilise the vision laid out in the Cities and Circular Economy for Food report.

Partners

Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Unilever, Veolia and Yara International, Danone, Nestlé, Mizkan, Novamont, Mava Foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, DOEN Foundation, and Porticus (Philanthropic partners), The cities of Sao Paulo, New York, and London (Strategic Partners and demonstration cities), Google (Knowledge partner)

10X20x30 Food Loss and Waste Initiative

Ellen MacArthur Food Initiative

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Food Systems

Ellen MacArthur Food Initiative

This Action aligns to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Food:

2. Scale Productive and Regenerative Agriculture Practices

4. Better Understand Hotspots of Food Loss and Waste

7. Reframe Wasted Food and Byproducts as Valuable Resources

Location

Global

Led by

Long term ambition

The Ellen MacArthur Food Initiative seeks to create unstoppable momentum towards a regenerative food system based on the principles of a circular economy.

Context

The linear food system is ripe for disruption. While the industrial food system has generated many benefits, it is also highly extractive and wasteful, proving to be unfit to feed the world in a way that is healthy both for people and natural systems in the long term
The circular economy offers a vision for a food system fit for the future
Cities can trigger a shift to a better food system. Businesses, public bodies, organisations, and people within cities can accelerate the global transition to a healthy, regenerative food system underpinned by circular economy principles

Objectives

Mobilise a cross-sector public-private stakeholder consortium to realise the circular model for food in cities around the world
Illustrate the vision with a number of city demonstrator projects

Project description

Partners

Build Back Better: Using Green and Digital Technologies to Reduce Food Waste at Consumer Level

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Food Systems

Build Back Better: Using Green and Digital Technologies to Reduce Food Waste at Consumer Level

PACE Partners IRP and UNEP are contributing to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Food:

4. Better understand hotspots of food loss and waste

6. Increase investment in food loss and waste reduction

7. Reframe wasted food and byproducts as valuable resources

Ambition

Build Back Better aims at supporting countries in harnessing green technologies to reduce food waste at consumer level and to Build Back Better from the COVID-19 pandemic. It also contributes to the attainment of the SDGs and climate goals.

Objectives

Within Build Back Better, the objectives are threefold:

Diagnose the food waste problem in five cities (Bangkok, Kampala, Belgrade, Bogotá and Doha): working with local authorities to develop urban food waste baselines, supporting food waste measurement and undertaking local policy analysis and stakeholder mapping.

Understanding different enablers: analyzing different enablers and successful business models, proposing a tailored intervention package to address food waste issue at consumer level.

Engaging with target groups for change in policy, practice and behavior: devising strategies for engaging critical food behavior actors, translating related evidence into easily accessible communication materials, developing engagement and dissemination strategies and identifying partnerships for scaling up impacts.

The Report ‘Reducing Consumer Food Waste Using Green and Digital Technologies’ has been published in 2021 to improve understanding of how green and digital technologies could be used to reduce consumer food waste and what could be done to further unlock this potential.

Partners

IRP, UNEP, Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs), One Planet Network, Sustainable Infrastructure Partnership (SIP), UNEP DTU Partnership (UDP), Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN)

Our Food Future

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Food Systems

Our Food Future

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Food

10. Increase information accessibility and data utilization

7. Reframe wasted food and byproducts as valuable resources

4. Better understand hotspots of food loss and waste

Ambition

Through the initiative Our Food Future, the Canadian municipalities of Guelph and Wellington County aim to create the country’s first circular food economy by 2025 with three ambitious goals known as 50x50x50: (1) increase access to affordable, nutritious food by 50%, (2) create 50 new circular food businesses or collaborations, and (3) increase economic benefit by unlocking the value of waste by 50%.

Objectives

Guelph-Wellington will operationalize technology and use of data to support circular business models. Building on the work of Our Food Future, the Circular Opportunity Innovation Launchpad (COIL) was launched to help entrepreneurs, established businesses and social enterprises launch and scale innovative, sustainable products and business models. This program will accelerate an additional 45 businesses, launch 5 industrial-scale demonstration projects, deliver 3 innovation challenges and build momentum around ReSource Exchange, a business-to-business marketplace for end-of-life products/by-products that would otherwise go to waste.

Partners

The Government of Canada, Municipalities of Guelph and Wellington County, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, Next Generation Manufacturing Canada, 10C, Innovation Guelph, University of Guelph (Arrell Food Institute), Conestoga College, Ontario Agri-Food Technologies, Alectra Utilities, Provision Coalition, The SEED (Guelph Community Health Centre), Toward Common Ground, Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health, Smart Prosperity Institute (University of Ottawa), Western University Ivey School of Business, Circular Innovation Council, Circular Leadership Council, MARS, Dillon Consulting and Metabolic.

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Electronics

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Global Battery Alliance

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Electronics

Global Battery Alliance

Long term ambition

Global Battery Alliance seeks to ensure that the battery value chain is socially responsible, environmentally and economically sustainable and innovative.

Context

By 2025, the battery market will reach $100 billion, primarily driven by the growing global stock of electric vehicles. However, this growth comes at a social and environmental toll
Raw materials needed for batteries are linked to social and environmental issues
No scaled systems are in place to enable re-use and recycling of over 11 million tons of the spent lithium-ion batteries forecast to be discarded by 2030
Innovation potential remains unexploited along the value chain, holding back greater supply chain transparency, business model and technological innovation

Objectives

Support responsible and sustainable supply chains of key raw materials
Accelerate the transition towards a circular economy for batteries
Support collaboration to unlock innovation along the value chain

Project description

With respect to circular economy pillar in the Alliance:

The circular economy market and its potential evolution over time will be assessed in a scoping study (by early 2019)
Opportunities to lower repurposing and re-use costs for batteries will be assessed (e.g. standard-setting, establishing a framework to help address regulatory and liability challenges)
Barriers to recycling of electric vehicle battery will be quantified and a public-private pilot launched to test scalable solutions
A portable electronics collection pilot is being scoped to test how materials can be recovered more efficiently

Partners

Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), World Economic Forum, African Development Bank, Responsible Business Alliance, UNEP, Amara Raja Group, Audi, BASF, BMW, BP, China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals and Chemicals Importers and Exporters, Clarios, ClimateWorks Foundation, Deme Group, GIZ, Enel, Envision Group, ERG, Everledger, Fairphone, Glencore, Good Shepherd International Foundation, Google, Groupe Renault, Honda, Huayou Cobalt, International Energy Agency, Johnson Matthey, LeasePlan, LG Chem, London Metal Exchange, Mahindra, NPL, OECD, Pact, Pure Earth, RCS Global, RESOLVE, Responsible Battery Coalition, Saft, SAP, SK Innovation, Signify, Stanley Black & Decker, Center for Business and Human Rights at the Stern School of Business (New York University), Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (SQM), Trafigura Group, Transport & Environment, Umicore, UNICEF, Vale, Volkswagen Group, Volvo Group, Wesfarmers, World Bank Group.

Greening with Jobs - World Employment and Social Outlook

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Electronics

Greening with Jobs - World Employment and Social Outlook

PACE Partner the International Labour Organization (ILO) is contributing to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda:

Integrate and advance decent work in the transition to a circular economy for electronics (Electronics, CTA 10; Textiles, CTA 9; Plastics, CTA 9)

Ambition

The report ‘Greening with Jobs - World Employment and Social Outlook 2018’ examines environmental sustainability in the world of work to support a strengthening of the global and regional partnerships in the area of skills development for a green transition. It aims to promote cross-border knowledge-sharing with regional and international approaches to skills development for the green transition, which can in turn address the competitiveness concerns of individual countries.

Objectives for 2021

This edition of the World Employment and Social Outlook focuses on how climate change and environmental degradation will impact the labour markets, affecting both the volume and quality of employment, and quantifies the shifts expected to take place within and between sectors. It shows that there is scope for policies in the world of work to advance environmental sustainability, and for environmental policies to ensure decent work. It acknowledges a coherent and integrated legal framework is a step in this direction and provides policy recommendations that combine decent work issues with environmental regulations, and provide workers with the right set of skills to transition to sectors with employment growth, and also to better jobs. Moreover, it underlines the urgent need to improve the understanding of the mechanisms through which a country-specific policy mix can have an impact on skills development for the green transition. In recognition of this need, the ILO is following up on the analysis with a view to developing detailed policy recommendations for each country that could lead to technical assistance to the countries surveyed.

Partners

ILO

Circular Electronics Partnership

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Electronics

Circular Electronics Partnership

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Electronics:

1. Incentivize and Support Product Design for Circularity

2. Enable Producers to Increase Sourcing of Recycled Content

6. Set Up Effective Collection Systems

7. Enable Efficiency and Transparency in Compliant and Responsible Transboundary Movement

8. Strategically Plan and Install Sorting, Pre-Processing, and Recycling Operations.

“The Circular Electronics Partnership offers a pre-competitive, industry platform for the electronics value chain to take coordinated action towards a circular economy.”

- Brendan Edgerton, Circular Economy Director WBCSD

Location

Global

Ambition

Short-term: Produce a Vision for circular electronics and a Roadmap for how the industry can achieve it. At the point of publication of these documents, CEP will commence five projects across the life cycle, coming out of the Roadmap and actioned by its Partners.

Long-term: CEP establishes a global community of leading organizations and companies committed to a circular electronics industry, monitoring progress against the Roadmap and catalyzing coordinated action with key stakeholders.

Context

Electronics are one of the world’s fastest-growing sectors and have improved our everyday life in many ways. They allow individuals around the world to participate in the global marketplace, facilitated access to educational material and services and expanded access to healthcare in many regions.

The flip side of this development is the ever-growing stream of e-waste created by the global community. The following factors contribute to this development:

Electronic goods get cheaper and more accessible
Fast innovation cycles lead to the disposal of still-functioning devices
Most electronic products are not built to last

In 2018, 50 million metric tonnes of electronics were disposed of. The material value of this e-waste is estimated to be at around $57 billion – more than the GDP of most countries. Yet, only 17.4% of e-waste is dealt with appropriately.

Most e-waste ends up in landfills or is disposed of by informal workers under hazardous working conditions. The consequences range from health risks for workers and their communities to polluted groundwater sources.

A circular economy for electronics represents significant potential value for businesses, communities and the environment. However, approaches are highly diverse and fragmented.

In 2019, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the World Economic Forum (WEF), PACE, and the United Nations E-waste Coalition (including ITU) united key players in the electronics industry behind “A New Circular Vision for Electronics”. In this report, they not only mapped the current challenges but also opportunities of a ‘system upgrade’ - and what is needed to achieve them.

They set our three vision objectives for the transition to a more sustainable electronics economy:

1. Significant increase in recyclability and recycled content of new products

2. Significant extension of product lifetime

3. Significant increase in collection rates and high-quality recycling

Following the launch of the report, the Circular Electronics Partnership (CEP) evolved between the report’s authors with an expanded alliance including Responsible Business Alliance, Global Electronics Council and Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative.

Plan of Action

CEP unites seven organizations, as well as their respective private sector members, in a comprehensive and credible alliance. By bringing key companies and organizations in the electronics sector and the circular economy to the table, CEP establishes a network of networks of coordinated action.

While the initiative is managed by all partner organizations, its secretariat is hosted by WBCSD.

In March 2021, the seven partner organizations collaboratively developed and launched a Vision for Circular Electronics, a Roadmap for Circular Electronics and kick-started five projects responding to the Roadmap.

Partners

International Telecommunication Union (ITU), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), World Economic Forum (WEF), Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), Green Electronics Council (GEC)

Contact

Website: www.cep2030.org

Twitter: @CEP_2030

Global Battery Alliance

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Electronics

Global Battery Alliance

Long term ambition

Global Battery Alliance seeks to ensure that the battery value chain is socially responsible, environmentally and economically sustainable and innovative.

Context

By 2025, the battery market will reach $100 billion, primarily driven by the growing global stock of electric vehicles. However, this growth comes at a social and environmental toll
Raw materials needed for batteries are linked to social and environmental issues
No scaled systems are in place to enable re-use and recycling of over 11 million tons of the spent lithium-ion batteries forecast to be discarded by 2030
Innovation potential remains unexploited along the value chain, holding back greater supply chain transparency, business model and technological innovation

Objectives

Support responsible and sustainable supply chains of key raw materials
Accelerate the transition towards a circular economy for batteries
Support collaboration to unlock innovation along the value chain

Project description

With respect to circular economy pillar in the Alliance:

The circular economy market and its potential evolution over time will be assessed in a scoping study (by early 2019)
Opportunities to lower repurposing and re-use costs for batteries will be assessed (e.g. standard-setting, establishing a framework to help address regulatory and liability challenges)
Barriers to recycling of electric vehicle battery will be quantified and a public-private pilot launched to test scalable solutions
A portable electronics collection pilot is being scoped to test how materials can be recovered more efficiently

Partners

Circular Electronics Partnership

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Electronics

Circular Electronics Partnership

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Electronics:

1. Incentivize and Support Product Design for Circularity

2. Enable Producers to Increase Sourcing of Recycled Content

6. Set Up Effective Collection Systems

7. Enable Efficiency and Transparency in Compliant and Responsible Transboundary Movement

8. Strategically Plan and Install Sorting, Pre-Processing, and Recycling Operations.

“The Circular Electronics Partnership offers a pre-competitive, industry platform for the electronics value chain to take coordinated action towards a circular economy.”

- Brendan Edgerton, Circular Economy Director WBCSD

Location

Global

Ambition

Context

The flip side of this development is the ever-growing stream of e-waste created by the global community. The following factors contribute to this development:

Electronic goods get cheaper and more accessible
Fast innovation cycles lead to the disposal of still-functioning devices
Most electronic products are not built to last

A circular economy for electronics represents significant potential value for businesses, communities and the environment. However, approaches are highly diverse and fragmented.

They set our three vision objectives for the transition to a more sustainable electronics economy:

1. Significant increase in recyclability and recycled content of new products

2. Significant extension of product lifetime

3. Significant increase in collection rates and high-quality recycling

Plan of Action

While the initiative is managed by all partner organizations, its secretariat is hosted by WBCSD.

Partners

Contact

Website: www.cep2030.org

Twitter: @CEP_2030

China Circular Electronics and Material Value Chains

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Electronics

China Circular Electronics and Material Value Chains

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Electronics:

2. Enable Producers to Increase Sourcing of Recycled Content

4. Guide and Support New Business Models for Environmental, Financial, and Social Triple-Win

6. Set Up Effective Collection Systems

Project description

The project aims to support effective systems for the integration of recycled materials into electronic products and equipment along with other circular economy strategies. Through collaboration between multinational businesses, government and the domestic material recovery sector, work will seek to co-design pilot projects which test new regulatory approaches, technologies and partnerships.

Long term ambitions

Help the Chinese government reach its target or recycling 50% of e-waste by 2025 and sourcing 20% of materials for products from recycled sources.

Context

Major electronic companies have set targets to use secondary materials in new products and other strategies to accelerate the circular economy
China is leading electronics manufacturing & has high targets for circular economy in electronics
Only $160m of value is recovered of a potential $1.3 billion worth of materials
Limited understanding of secondary material market scale, potential and operations in China
Informal secondary material processing in China is dominant

Objectives

Create a platform for public-private collaboration between electronics companies and the Chinese government
Move towards piloting new strategies for circular economy in electronics
Undergo research to increase the base of knowledge on circular electronics in China

Partners

World Economic Forum, China Association of Circular Economy, China National Resources Recycling Association, Apple, Huawei, GEM, DELL Technologies, Philips Health. Xiaomi, Oppo, Aihuishou, Huishoubao, TES-AMM, JD, HPE, Huirong, TES-AMM (data center servers), GE Healthcare, Siemens Healthineers, United Imaging (medical imaging equipment)

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Plastics

Thematic Brochure

New Plastics Economy

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Plastics

New Plastics Economy

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Plastics:

1. Agree Which Plastics Can be Eliminated and Prepare the Market to Phase Them Out

2. Incentivize and Support Product Design for Reuse and Recycling of Plastics

6. Set up Functioning Collection Systems

Location

Global

Led by

Project description

Over the past four years, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy initiative has rallied businesses and governments behind a positive vision of a circular economy for plastics. Its 2016 and 2017 New Plastics Economy reports captured worldwide headlines, revealing the financial and environmental costs of waste plastic and pollution. In the last year, it has brought together 15 leading companies committed to work towards 100% reusable, recyclable, or compostable plastic packaging by 2025. The Global Commitment takes this work to the next level – creating a global coalition of leaders with the power to prevent plastic pollution at the source.

Long term ambition of New Plastics Economy

Create unstoppable momentum towards a plastics system that works.

Context

If we don’t act now, by 2040 the amount of plastic entering the ocean each year will triple, putting us well on the way to an ocean with more plastic than fish by 2050.

But we cannot simply recycle or reduce our way out of the plastic pollution crisis. We need a circular economy for plastic, in which it never becomes waste or pollution.

We must take three actions to create a circular economy for plastic:

EMF

The New Plastic Economy initiative is underpinned by a common vision for a circular economy for plastic, and delivered by two key voluntary mechanisms:

By signing the Global Commitment, led in collaboration with UNEP, businesses and governments around the world agree to concrete 2025 targets under the vision, and transparent annual reporting on progress.
Through the Plastics Pact network, countries and regions bring together key stakeholders within their specific geographical context to drive forward a circular economy for plastic, with clear 2025 targets and annual public reporting.

Each Global Commitment signatory and Plastics Pact member formally endorses the vision and the need to work towards achieving it.

Towards a UN Treaty on plastic pollution

The New Plastics Economy initiative has created exciting momentum and is a clear signal to business and policymakers that transitioning from a linear to a circular economy for plastic is a priority. But this cannot be achieved through voluntary commitments alone. An international framework for action is needed.

In November 2020, together with WWF and the Boston Consulting Group, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation launched a call for a UN Treaty on plastic pollution, alongside a report setting out the opportunity, and a business manifesto signed by 45 leading companies.

Objectives

Through collaboration and alignment behind a common vision, achieve tangible steps towards a circular economy for plastics.

Partners

Lead Philanthropic Partner: Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation

Philanthropic Partner: Oak Foundation

Initiative partners: Amcor, Borealis, The Coca-Cola Company, Danone, L’Oreal, MARS, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Veolia and Walmart

Contact

New Plastics Economy

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Plastics

New Plastics Economy

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Plastics:

1. Agree Which Plastics Can be Eliminated and Prepare the Market to Phase Them Out

2. Incentivize and Support Product Design for Reuse and Recycling of Plastics

6. Set up Functioning Collection Systems

Location

Global

Led by

Project description

Long term ambition of New Plastics Economy

Create unstoppable momentum towards a plastics system that works.

Context

If we don’t act now, by 2040 the amount of plastic entering the ocean each year will triple, putting us well on the way to an ocean with more plastic than fish by 2050.

But we cannot simply recycle or reduce our way out of the plastic pollution crisis. We need a circular economy for plastic, in which it never becomes waste or pollution.

We must take three actions to create a circular economy for plastic:

EMF

The New Plastic Economy initiative is underpinned by a common vision for a circular economy for plastic, and delivered by two key voluntary mechanisms:

By signing the Global Commitment, led in collaboration with UNEP, businesses and governments around the world agree to concrete 2025 targets under the vision, and transparent annual reporting on progress.
Through the Plastics Pact network, countries and regions bring together key stakeholders within their specific geographical context to drive forward a circular economy for plastic, with clear 2025 targets and annual public reporting.

Each Global Commitment signatory and Plastics Pact member formally endorses the vision and the need to work towards achieving it.

Towards a UN Treaty on plastic pollution

Objectives

Through collaboration and alignment behind a common vision, achieve tangible steps towards a circular economy for plastics.

Partners

Lead Philanthropic Partner: Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation

Philanthropic Partner: Oak Foundation

Initiative partners: Amcor, Borealis, The Coca-Cola Company, Danone, L’Oreal, MARS, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Veolia and Walmart

Contact

New Plastics Economy

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Plastics

New Plastics Economy

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Plastics:

1. Agree Which Plastics Can be Eliminated and Prepare the Market to Phase Them Out

2. Incentivize and Support Product Design for Reuse and Recycling of Plastics

6. Set up Functioning Collection Systems

Location

Global

Led by

Project description

Long term ambition of New Plastics Economy

Create unstoppable momentum towards a plastics system that works.

Context

If we don’t act now, by 2040 the amount of plastic entering the ocean each year will triple, putting us well on the way to an ocean with more plastic than fish by 2050.

But we cannot simply recycle or reduce our way out of the plastic pollution crisis. We need a circular economy for plastic, in which it never becomes waste or pollution.

We must take three actions to create a circular economy for plastic:

EMF

The New Plastic Economy initiative is underpinned by a common vision for a circular economy for plastic, and delivered by two key voluntary mechanisms:

By signing the Global Commitment, led in collaboration with UNEP, businesses and governments around the world agree to concrete 2025 targets under the vision, and transparent annual reporting on progress.
Through the Plastics Pact network, countries and regions bring together key stakeholders within their specific geographical context to drive forward a circular economy for plastic, with clear 2025 targets and annual public reporting.

Each Global Commitment signatory and Plastics Pact member formally endorses the vision and the need to work towards achieving it.

Towards a UN Treaty on plastic pollution

Objectives

Through collaboration and alignment behind a common vision, achieve tangible steps towards a circular economy for plastics.

Partners

Lead Philanthropic Partner: Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation

Philanthropic Partner: Oak Foundation

Initiative partners: Amcor, Borealis, The Coca-Cola Company, Danone, L’Oreal, MARS, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Veolia and Walmart

Contact

Closed Loop Infrastructure Group

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Plastics

Closed Loop Infrastructure Group

PACE Partners Closed Loop Partners, the Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble and Unilever are contributing to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda

Support Manufacturers to Increase Sourcing of Secondary Components (Capital Equipment, CTA 8)
Strategically Plan Sorting and Recycling Facilities, in Compliance with Trade Regulations (Plastics, CTA 7)

Ambition

The Closed Loop Infrastructure Group (CLIG) aims to build a circular economy supported by strong infrastructure that ensures all valuable materials – from plastics to paper, glass and aluminium – are recovered after use, kept in circulation and never go to waste. CLIG funds replicable, scalable and sustainable recycling and circular economy infrastructure projects across collection, sortation, processing and new technologies in recycling. Each of the funds in the Infrastructure Group invest alongside one another to bridge existing financing gaps, scale solutions and build on synergies across the funds’ networks to scale circular economy infrastructure across North America.

Objectives for 2021

In 2021, the Closed Loop Infrastructure Group will undergo third-party verification of impact processes and performances and continue to support investees in its Closed Loop Beverage Fund and Closed Loop Infrastructure Fund. The Group also launched the Closed Loop Circular Plastics Fund as an industry-led investment fund that provides catalytic ﬁnancing to build circular economy infrastructure, upgrade recycling facilities and spur technological innovations to source, process and return post-consumer and post-industrial polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) plastic into manufacturing supply chains in the U.S. & Canada for use as feedstock for future products and packaging.

Partners

Closed Loop Partners, the Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble and Unilever (PACE Partners)

3M, Colgate Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health, Keurig Dr. Pepper, PepsiCo, The Walmart Foundation, Amazon, Danone North America, Danone Waters of America, Nestlé Waters North America, Starbucks, DOW, Lyondellbasell and Nova Chemicals

Greening with Jobs - World Employment and Social Outlook

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Plastics

Greening with Jobs - World Employment and Social Outlook

PACE Partner the International Labour Organization (ILO) is contributing to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda:

Integrate and advance decent work in the transition to a circular economy for electronics (Electronics, CTA 10; Textiles, CTA 9; Plastics, CTA 9)

Ambition

Objectives for 2021

Partners

ILO

New Plastics Economy

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Plastics

New Plastics Economy

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Plastics:

1. Agree Which Plastics Can be Eliminated and Prepare the Market to Phase Them Out

2. Incentivize and Support Product Design for Reuse and Recycling of Plastics

6. Set up Functioning Collection Systems

Location

Global

Led by

Project description

Long term ambition of New Plastics Economy

Create unstoppable momentum towards a plastics system that works.

Context

If we don’t act now, by 2040 the amount of plastic entering the ocean each year will triple, putting us well on the way to an ocean with more plastic than fish by 2050.

But we cannot simply recycle or reduce our way out of the plastic pollution crisis. We need a circular economy for plastic, in which it never becomes waste or pollution.

We must take three actions to create a circular economy for plastic:

EMF

The New Plastic Economy initiative is underpinned by a common vision for a circular economy for plastic, and delivered by two key voluntary mechanisms:

By signing the Global Commitment, led in collaboration with UNEP, businesses and governments around the world agree to concrete 2025 targets under the vision, and transparent annual reporting on progress.
Through the Plastics Pact network, countries and regions bring together key stakeholders within their specific geographical context to drive forward a circular economy for plastic, with clear 2025 targets and annual public reporting.

Each Global Commitment signatory and Plastics Pact member formally endorses the vision and the need to work towards achieving it.

Towards a UN Treaty on plastic pollution

Objectives

Through collaboration and alignment behind a common vision, achieve tangible steps towards a circular economy for plastics.

Partners

Lead Philanthropic Partner: Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation

Philanthropic Partner: Oak Foundation

Initiative partners: Amcor, Borealis, The Coca-Cola Company, Danone, L’Oreal, MARS, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Veolia and Walmart

Contact

New Plastics Economy

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Plastics

New Plastics Economy

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Plastics:

1. Agree Which Plastics Can be Eliminated and Prepare the Market to Phase Them Out

2. Incentivize and Support Product Design for Reuse and Recycling of Plastics

6. Set up Functioning Collection Systems

Location

Global

Led by

Project description

Long term ambition of New Plastics Economy

Create unstoppable momentum towards a plastics system that works.

Context

If we don’t act now, by 2040 the amount of plastic entering the ocean each year will triple, putting us well on the way to an ocean with more plastic than fish by 2050.

But we cannot simply recycle or reduce our way out of the plastic pollution crisis. We need a circular economy for plastic, in which it never becomes waste or pollution.

We must take three actions to create a circular economy for plastic:

EMF

The New Plastic Economy initiative is underpinned by a common vision for a circular economy for plastic, and delivered by two key voluntary mechanisms:

By signing the Global Commitment, led in collaboration with UNEP, businesses and governments around the world agree to concrete 2025 targets under the vision, and transparent annual reporting on progress.
Through the Plastics Pact network, countries and regions bring together key stakeholders within their specific geographical context to drive forward a circular economy for plastic, with clear 2025 targets and annual public reporting.

Each Global Commitment signatory and Plastics Pact member formally endorses the vision and the need to work towards achieving it.

Towards a UN Treaty on plastic pollution

Objectives

Through collaboration and alignment behind a common vision, achieve tangible steps towards a circular economy for plastics.

Partners

Lead Philanthropic Partner: Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation

Philanthropic Partner: Oak Foundation

Initiative partners: Amcor, Borealis, The Coca-Cola Company, Danone, L’Oreal, MARS, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Veolia and Walmart

Contact

Plastics Pact Network

Oceans Plastic Charter

Canada Plastics Pact

Actions working toward circular metrics

Thematic Brochure

Actions working toward circular metrics

Corporate Circular Target-Setting

Ambition  

Enhance corporate circular target-setting by ultimately linking circularity to key environmental outcomes.

Context 

The current circular economy target-setting landscape is fragmented, lacking consistent guidance on how to define and implement circular targets, and without this, existing targets are self-defined and difficult to compare, hindering progress without being able to establish the true impact of circular economy business models. 

This initiative exists to harness metrics for businesses to support corporate circular target-setting, as a new focus of the Circular Economy Indicators Coalition, in collaboration with Accenture.  

We want to enable companies to create quantitative, targeted goals which drive measurable progress toward circularity and help companies navigate existing resources to measure and manage their progress. 

At COP27, we released a discussion document, ‘Corporate target-setting for the circular economy: Mobilizing measurable progress,’ which introduces research and consultation findings on the current challenges in setting corporate circular economy targets and presents solutions needed to help mobilize more businesses in setting targets and to help companies better navigate the existing circular target-setting landscape. 

At the World Economic Forum in 2023, we released ‘Corporate circular target-setting guidance’, which builds onto the discussion document and provides businesses with a clear launching point for selecting and reporting against impactful targets. It aims to mobilize more corporate circular target-setting and harmonize the circular metrics landscape.

This guidance has consolidated a myriad of materials to point users toward relevant standards, tools, approaches, and methodologies. Businesses can use this guide to learn about best practice KPIs for the circular economy and how to select and set these KPIs.

Do you want to learn more?

We invite companies to get in touch and share their experiences to better guide more impactful targets and to engage in the development of a science-based approach to circular target setting.

Partners

Apple

World Economic Forum

Total Energies

Philips

Anglo American

Systemiq

Zalando

DLL

ENEL

H&M Group

WBCSD

Contact

lotte.holvast@pacecircular.org

Actions working toward circular metrics

Circular Economy Indicators Coalition

Location

Global

Leading Partners

PACE and Circle Economy

Ambition

Create an overview and provide access to increase the use of meaningful circularity indicators to measure the progress and impact of the circular economy.
Connect key initiatives and stakeholders, including both developers and different user groups of circular economy indicators, to facilitate exchange, improve alignment, and bridge critical gaps.

Context

Our world is only 7.2% circular. Material extraction and carbon emissions continue an upward trend. In terms of sustainability and circularity, the global engine of change is stuck in reverse; we are still heading in the wrong direction. Measuring progress, understanding the current state of play and steering towards the right direction are key when accelerating the circular economy.

However, with a variety of challenges ranging from limitation in indicator coverage to data availability and collection, the circular economy metrics field is still on its way to maturity. For indicators to be successful in supporting stakeholders guiding the transition, they must be consistent, meaningful, widely accepted, and easy to understand. PACE and Circle Economy have established the Circular Economy Indicators Coalition (CEIC) to drive harmonization and increased application of circular indicators.

In October 2020, the Circular Metrics for Business report was released and can be used as a tool to navigate the complex landscape of circularity metrics, by providing a step-by-step guide on which metrics to choose. Businesses can apply metrics to create awareness of the opportunities the circular economy brings to innovate their products among their shareholders, customers, suppliers, and employees.

In April 2021, the CEIC launched the Circular Indicators for Governments report. The report provides an in-depth analysis of public sector indicators and provides opportunities for where action can be taken. Taken together, the reports provide the first clear picture of the current state of play on how businesses and governments are approaching metrics for the circular economy.

The CEIC has created the Circular Indicators Library to help financiers and analysts identify and apply meaningful circular economy indicators. It is an overview of the latest indicators, methodologies and associated resources to measure the circular economy and related social, economic, and environmental impacts. This constantly updated collection is available online at Circle Economy’s Knowledge Hub. The library’s navigation guides users towards indicators most relevant to them through filtering criteria such as target groups or regulations. By regularly accessing the Circular Indicators Library, financiers and businesses can stay up to date with the latest developments in circularity measurement and ensure reliable monitoring of their circular activities. The library was recommended by the United Nations Environment Programme’s report as one of the sources of circularity criteria.

Partners

Accenture

Goldschmeding Foundation

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

International Labor Organization

Contact

lotte.holvast@pacecircular.org

Actions working toward circular metrics

Corporate Circular Target-Setting

Ambition  

Enhance corporate circular target-setting by ultimately linking circularity to key environmental outcomes.

Context 

This initiative exists to harness metrics for businesses to support corporate circular target-setting, as a new focus of the Circular Economy Indicators Coalition, in collaboration with Accenture.  

Do you want to learn more?

We invite companies to get in touch and share their experiences to better guide more impactful targets and to engage in the development of a science-based approach to circular target setting.

Partners

Apple

World Economic Forum

Total Energies

Philips

Anglo American

Systemiq

Zalando

DLL

ENEL

H&M Group

WBCSD

Contact

lotte.holvast@pacecircular.org

Actions working toward circular metrics

Circular Economy Indicators Coalition

Location

Global

Leading Partners

PACE and Circle Economy

Ambition

Create an overview and provide access to increase the use of meaningful circularity indicators to measure the progress and impact of the circular economy.
Connect key initiatives and stakeholders, including both developers and different user groups of circular economy indicators, to facilitate exchange, improve alignment, and bridge critical gaps.

Context

Partners

Accenture

Goldschmeding Foundation

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

International Labor Organization

Contact

lotte.holvast@pacecircular.org

Actions working toward circular metrics

Corporate Circular Target-Setting

Ambition  

Enhance corporate circular target-setting by ultimately linking circularity to key environmental outcomes.

Context 

This initiative exists to harness metrics for businesses to support corporate circular target-setting, as a new focus of the Circular Economy Indicators Coalition, in collaboration with Accenture.  

Do you want to learn more?

We invite companies to get in touch and share their experiences to better guide more impactful targets and to engage in the development of a science-based approach to circular target setting.

Partners

Apple

World Economic Forum

Total Energies

Philips

Anglo American

Systemiq

Zalando

DLL

ENEL

H&M Group

WBCSD

Contact

lotte.holvast@pacecircular.org

Actions working toward circular metrics

Circular Economy Indicators Coalition

Location

Global

Leading Partners

PACE and Circle Economy

Ambition

Create an overview and provide access to increase the use of meaningful circularity indicators to measure the progress and impact of the circular economy.
Connect key initiatives and stakeholders, including both developers and different user groups of circular economy indicators, to facilitate exchange, improve alignment, and bridge critical gaps.

Context

Partners

Accenture

Goldschmeding Foundation

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

International Labor Organization

Contact

lotte.holvast@pacecircular.org

Actions working toward circular metrics

Corporate Circular Target-Setting

Ambition  

Enhance corporate circular target-setting by ultimately linking circularity to key environmental outcomes.

Context 

This initiative exists to harness metrics for businesses to support corporate circular target-setting, as a new focus of the Circular Economy Indicators Coalition, in collaboration with Accenture.  

Do you want to learn more?

We invite companies to get in touch and share their experiences to better guide more impactful targets and to engage in the development of a science-based approach to circular target setting.

Partners

Apple

World Economic Forum

Total Energies

Philips

Anglo American

Systemiq

Zalando

DLL

ENEL

H&M Group

WBCSD

Contact

lotte.holvast@pacecircular.org

Actions working toward circular metrics

Circular Economy Indicators Coalition

Location

Global

Leading Partners

PACE and Circle Economy

Ambition

Create an overview and provide access to increase the use of meaningful circularity indicators to measure the progress and impact of the circular economy.
Connect key initiatives and stakeholders, including both developers and different user groups of circular economy indicators, to facilitate exchange, improve alignment, and bridge critical gaps.

Context

Partners

Accenture

Goldschmeding Foundation

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

International Labor Organization

Contact

lotte.holvast@pacecircular.org

Actions working toward circular metrics

Circular Economy Indicators Coalition

Location

Global

Leading Partners

PACE and Circle Economy

Ambition

Create an overview and provide access to increase the use of meaningful circularity indicators to measure the progress and impact of the circular economy.
Connect key initiatives and stakeholders, including both developers and different user groups of circular economy indicators, to facilitate exchange, improve alignment, and bridge critical gaps.

Context

Partners

Accenture

Goldschmeding Foundation

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

International Labor Organization

Contact

lotte.holvast@pacecircular.org

Actions working toward circular metrics

Circular Economy Indicators Coalition

Location

Global

Leading Partners

PACE and Circle Economy

Ambition

Create an overview and provide access to increase the use of meaningful circularity indicators to measure the progress and impact of the circular economy.
Connect key initiatives and stakeholders, including both developers and different user groups of circular economy indicators, to facilitate exchange, improve alignment, and bridge critical gaps.

Context

Partners

Accenture

Goldschmeding Foundation

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

International Labor Organization

Contact

lotte.holvast@pacecircular.org

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Capital Equipment

Thematic Brochure

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Capital Equipment

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Capital Equipment:

2. Transform Customer Perception and Procurement Models to Increase Demand for Circular Products and Services

3. Leveraging Servitization, Guide and Support Product Use Rates and Use Life Extension

6. Collaborate Across Value Chain and Sectors to Strategically Plan Reuse Operations

7. Increase End-of-Use Product Return

9. Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition

Location

Europe and North America

Ambition of the Capital Equipment Coalition

Our vision is a closed-loop capital equipment industry in which value is preserved and recovered across the product lifecycle.

To achieve this vision, it is our ambition to:

Accelerate the implementation of circular practices internally (through organizational change) and across the value chain (through external engagement of suppliers and customers)
Drive alignment of cross-sectoral strategies and developing a shared language and narrative
Contribute to the global circular economy transition

Context

Global use of capital equipment - ranging from MRI scanners to agricultural equipment and much in between - represents a significant proportion of all material use and current waste generation.

During Davos 2018, a group of forward-thinking business leaders in Europe committed to bold pledges that aim to preserve and recover the value from the capital equipment they produce, service, or influence. In February 2021, a new group of businesses in the North American market joined as an additional cohort within the Coalition alongside Europe.

While pursuing their individual commitments, the group collectively develops an understanding of the most critical common challenges and best practices to overcome them. By openly sharing progress on their pledges and insights on replicable practices, the group aims to inspire other companies to define their own commitments and help drive the transformation of the capital equipment sector. The Coalition’s platform will facilitate collaboration among not only participating companies, but also key enabling stakeholders across industries in both markets to identify, build upon, and share approaches and technologies that can accelerate the circular economy. We know that the impact of these efforts will be multiplied if we work together across sectors and siloes to drive meaningful change.

Plan of Action

The Coalition collaboratively identifies challenges and opportunities, shares best practices and develops solutions to drive change towards a circular economy for Capital Equipment. By openly sharing progress, insights and learnings, the Coalition creates awareness on the need to transition, engages and enables other players in the public and private sector with the knowledge to accelerate collective progress towards a circular economy.

Contact

If you would like to know more about the European Cohort, please reach out to Circle Economy.

For companies or partners interested in joining the North American Cohort, please email the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Sustainability and Circular Economy team.

Regional Hosts

Circle Economy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Project Leaders European Cohort

Philips

DELL Technologies

ENEL Group

ASML

Damen

Lely

Cisco

Vanderlande

KPN

FedEx Express Europe

Project Leaders North American Cohort

Philips

DLL

GE Digital

SAP

Microsoft

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Capital Equipment

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Capital Equipment:

2. Transform Customer Perception and Procurement Models to Increase Demand for Circular Products and Services

3. Leveraging Servitization, Guide and Support Product Use Rates and Use Life Extension

6. Collaborate Across Value Chain and Sectors to Strategically Plan Reuse Operations

7. Increase End-of-Use Product Return

9. Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition

Location

Europe and North America

Ambition of the Capital Equipment Coalition

Our vision is a closed-loop capital equipment industry in which value is preserved and recovered across the product lifecycle.

To achieve this vision, it is our ambition to:

Accelerate the implementation of circular practices internally (through organizational change) and across the value chain (through external engagement of suppliers and customers)
Drive alignment of cross-sectoral strategies and developing a shared language and narrative
Contribute to the global circular economy transition

Context

Global use of capital equipment - ranging from MRI scanners to agricultural equipment and much in between - represents a significant proportion of all material use and current waste generation.

Plan of Action

Contact

If you would like to know more about the European Cohort, please reach out to Circle Economy.

For companies or partners interested in joining the North American Cohort, please email the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Sustainability and Circular Economy team.

Regional Hosts

Circle Economy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Project Leaders European Cohort

Philips

DELL Technologies

ENEL Group

ASML

Damen

Lely

Cisco

Vanderlande

KPN

FedEx Express Europe

Project Leaders North American Cohort

Philips

DLL

GE Digital

SAP

Microsoft

Closed Loop Infrastructure Group

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Capital Equipment

Closed Loop Infrastructure Group

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda

Support Manufacturers to Increase Sourcing of Secondary Components (Capital Equipment, CTA 8)
Strategically Plan Sorting and Recycling Facilities, in Compliance with Trade Regulations (Plastics, CTA 7)

Ambition

Objectives

The Closed Loop Infrastructure Group undergoes third-party verification of impact processes and performances and continue to support investees in its Closed Loop Beverage Fund and Closed Loop Infrastructure Fund in 2021. The Group also launched the Closed Loop Circular Plastics Fund as an industry-led investment fund that provides catalytic ﬁnancing to build circular economy infrastructure, upgrade recycling facilities and spur technological innovations to source, process and return post-consumer and post-industrial polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) plastic into manufacturing supply chains in the U.S. & Canada for use as feedstock for future products and packaging.

Partners

Closed Loop Partners, the Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. 3M, Colgate Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health, Keurig Dr. Pepper, PepsiCo, The Walmart Foundation, Amazon, Danone North America, Danone Waters of America, Nestlé Waters North America, Starbucks, DOW, Lyondellbasell and Nova Chemicals

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Capital Equipment

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Capital Equipment:

2. Transform Customer Perception and Procurement Models to Increase Demand for Circular Products and Services

3. Leveraging Servitization, Guide and Support Product Use Rates and Use Life Extension

6. Collaborate Across Value Chain and Sectors to Strategically Plan Reuse Operations

7. Increase End-of-Use Product Return

9. Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition

Location

Europe and North America

Ambition of the Capital Equipment Coalition

Our vision is a closed-loop capital equipment industry in which value is preserved and recovered across the product lifecycle.

To achieve this vision, it is our ambition to:

Accelerate the implementation of circular practices internally (through organizational change) and across the value chain (through external engagement of suppliers and customers)
Drive alignment of cross-sectoral strategies and developing a shared language and narrative
Contribute to the global circular economy transition

Context

Global use of capital equipment - ranging from MRI scanners to agricultural equipment and much in between - represents a significant proportion of all material use and current waste generation.

Plan of Action

Contact

If you would like to know more about the European Cohort, please reach out to Circle Economy.

For companies or partners interested in joining the North American Cohort, please email the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Sustainability and Circular Economy team.

Regional Hosts

Circle Economy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Project Leaders European Cohort

Philips

DELL Technologies

ENEL Group

ASML

Damen

Lely

Cisco

Vanderlande

KPN

FedEx Express Europe

Project Leaders North American Cohort

Philips

DLL

GE Digital

SAP

Microsoft

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Capital Equipment

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Capital Equipment:

2. Transform Customer Perception and Procurement Models to Increase Demand for Circular Products and Services

3. Leveraging Servitization, Guide and Support Product Use Rates and Use Life Extension

6. Collaborate Across Value Chain and Sectors to Strategically Plan Reuse Operations

7. Increase End-of-Use Product Return

9. Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition

Location

Europe and North America

Ambition of the Capital Equipment Coalition

Our vision is a closed-loop capital equipment industry in which value is preserved and recovered across the product lifecycle.

To achieve this vision, it is our ambition to:

Accelerate the implementation of circular practices internally (through organizational change) and across the value chain (through external engagement of suppliers and customers)
Drive alignment of cross-sectoral strategies and developing a shared language and narrative
Contribute to the global circular economy transition

Context

Global use of capital equipment - ranging from MRI scanners to agricultural equipment and much in between - represents a significant proportion of all material use and current waste generation.

Plan of Action

Contact

If you would like to know more about the European Cohort, please reach out to Circle Economy.

For companies or partners interested in joining the North American Cohort, please email the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Sustainability and Circular Economy team.

Regional Hosts

Circle Economy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Project Leaders European Cohort

Philips

DELL Technologies

ENEL Group

ASML

Damen

Lely

Cisco

Vanderlande

KPN

FedEx Express Europe

Project Leaders North American Cohort

Philips

DLL

GE Digital

SAP

Microsoft

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Capital Equipment

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Capital Equipment:

2. Transform Customer Perception and Procurement Models to Increase Demand for Circular Products and Services

3. Leveraging Servitization, Guide and Support Product Use Rates and Use Life Extension

6. Collaborate Across Value Chain and Sectors to Strategically Plan Reuse Operations

7. Increase End-of-Use Product Return

9. Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition

Location

Europe and North America

Ambition of the Capital Equipment Coalition

Our vision is a closed-loop capital equipment industry in which value is preserved and recovered across the product lifecycle.

To achieve this vision, it is our ambition to:

Accelerate the implementation of circular practices internally (through organizational change) and across the value chain (through external engagement of suppliers and customers)
Drive alignment of cross-sectoral strategies and developing a shared language and narrative
Contribute to the global circular economy transition

Context

Global use of capital equipment - ranging from MRI scanners to agricultural equipment and much in between - represents a significant proportion of all material use and current waste generation.

Plan of Action

Contact

If you would like to know more about the European Cohort, please reach out to Circle Economy.

For companies or partners interested in joining the North American Cohort, please email the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Sustainability and Circular Economy team.

Regional Hosts

Circle Economy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Project Leaders European Cohort

Philips

DELL Technologies

ENEL Group

ASML

Damen

Lely

Cisco

Vanderlande

KPN

FedEx Express Europe

Project Leaders North American Cohort

Philips

DLL

GE Digital

SAP

Microsoft

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Capital Equipment

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Capital Equipment:

2. Transform Customer Perception and Procurement Models to Increase Demand for Circular Products and Services

3. Leveraging Servitization, Guide and Support Product Use Rates and Use Life Extension

6. Collaborate Across Value Chain and Sectors to Strategically Plan Reuse Operations

7. Increase End-of-Use Product Return

9. Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition

Location

Europe and North America

Ambition of the Capital Equipment Coalition

Our vision is a closed-loop capital equipment industry in which value is preserved and recovered across the product lifecycle.

To achieve this vision, it is our ambition to:

Accelerate the implementation of circular practices internally (through organizational change) and across the value chain (through external engagement of suppliers and customers)
Drive alignment of cross-sectoral strategies and developing a shared language and narrative
Contribute to the global circular economy transition

Context

Global use of capital equipment - ranging from MRI scanners to agricultural equipment and much in between - represents a significant proportion of all material use and current waste generation.

Plan of Action

Contact

If you would like to know more about the European Cohort, please reach out to Circle Economy.

For companies or partners interested in joining the North American Cohort, please email the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Sustainability and Circular Economy team.

Regional Hosts

Circle Economy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Project Leaders European Cohort

Philips

DELL Technologies

ENEL Group

ASML

Damen

Lely

Cisco

Vanderlande

KPN

FedEx Express Europe

Project Leaders North American Cohort

Philips

DLL

GE Digital

SAP

Microsoft

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Capital Equipment

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Capital Equipment:

2. Transform Customer Perception and Procurement Models to Increase Demand for Circular Products and Services

3. Leveraging Servitization, Guide and Support Product Use Rates and Use Life Extension

6. Collaborate Across Value Chain and Sectors to Strategically Plan Reuse Operations

7. Increase End-of-Use Product Return

9. Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition

Location

Europe and North America

Ambition of the Capital Equipment Coalition

Our vision is a closed-loop capital equipment industry in which value is preserved and recovered across the product lifecycle.

To achieve this vision, it is our ambition to:

Accelerate the implementation of circular practices internally (through organizational change) and across the value chain (through external engagement of suppliers and customers)
Drive alignment of cross-sectoral strategies and developing a shared language and narrative
Contribute to the global circular economy transition

Context

Global use of capital equipment - ranging from MRI scanners to agricultural equipment and much in between - represents a significant proportion of all material use and current waste generation.

Plan of Action

Contact

If you would like to know more about the European Cohort, please reach out to Circle Economy.

For companies or partners interested in joining the North American Cohort, please email the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Sustainability and Circular Economy team.

Regional Hosts

Circle Economy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Project Leaders European Cohort

Philips

DELL Technologies

ENEL Group

ASML

Damen

Lely

Cisco

Vanderlande

KPN

FedEx Express Europe

Project Leaders North American Cohort

Philips

DLL

GE Digital

SAP

Microsoft

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Capital Equipment

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Capital Equipment:

2. Transform Customer Perception and Procurement Models to Increase Demand for Circular Products and Services

3. Leveraging Servitization, Guide and Support Product Use Rates and Use Life Extension

6. Collaborate Across Value Chain and Sectors to Strategically Plan Reuse Operations

7. Increase End-of-Use Product Return

9. Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition

Location

Europe and North America

Ambition of the Capital Equipment Coalition

Our vision is a closed-loop capital equipment industry in which value is preserved and recovered across the product lifecycle.

To achieve this vision, it is our ambition to:

Accelerate the implementation of circular practices internally (through organizational change) and across the value chain (through external engagement of suppliers and customers)
Drive alignment of cross-sectoral strategies and developing a shared language and narrative
Contribute to the global circular economy transition

Context

Global use of capital equipment - ranging from MRI scanners to agricultural equipment and much in between - represents a significant proportion of all material use and current waste generation.

Plan of Action

Contact

If you would like to know more about the European Cohort, please reach out to Circle Economy.

For companies or partners interested in joining the North American Cohort, please email the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Sustainability and Circular Economy team.

Regional Hosts

Circle Economy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Project Leaders European Cohort

Philips

DELL Technologies

ENEL Group

ASML

Damen

Lely

Cisco

Vanderlande

KPN

FedEx Express Europe

Project Leaders North American Cohort

Philips

DLL

GE Digital

SAP

Microsoft

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

Actions Working Toward Circularity for Capital Equipment

Capital Equipment Coalition - Europe and North America

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Capital Equipment:

2. Transform Customer Perception and Procurement Models to Increase Demand for Circular Products and Services

3. Leveraging Servitization, Guide and Support Product Use Rates and Use Life Extension

6. Collaborate Across Value Chain and Sectors to Strategically Plan Reuse Operations

7. Increase End-of-Use Product Return

9. Leverage Digital Technologies for the Circular Transition

Location

Europe and North America

Ambition of the Capital Equipment Coalition

Our vision is a closed-loop capital equipment industry in which value is preserved and recovered across the product lifecycle.

To achieve this vision, it is our ambition to:

Accelerate the implementation of circular practices internally (through organizational change) and across the value chain (through external engagement of suppliers and customers)
Drive alignment of cross-sectoral strategies and developing a shared language and narrative
Contribute to the global circular economy transition

Context

Global use of capital equipment - ranging from MRI scanners to agricultural equipment and much in between - represents a significant proportion of all material use and current waste generation.

Plan of Action

Contact

If you would like to know more about the European Cohort, please reach out to Circle Economy.

For companies or partners interested in joining the North American Cohort, please email the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Sustainability and Circular Economy team.

Regional Hosts

Circle Economy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Project Leaders European Cohort

Philips

DELL Technologies

ENEL Group

ASML

Damen

Lely

Cisco

Vanderlande

KPN

FedEx Express Europe

Project Leaders North American Cohort

Philips

DLL

GE Digital

SAP

Microsoft

Regional Alliances

Thematic Brochure

Latin America and the Caribbean Circular Economy Coalition

Regional Alliances

Latin America and the Caribbean Circular Economy Coalition

This Action aligns to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda:

Guide and Support New Business Models for Environmental, Financial, and Social Triple-Win (Electronics, CTA 4; Plastics, CTA 5)
Integrate and Advance Decent Work in the Transition to a Circular Economy (Electronics, CTA 10; Plastics, CTA 9)
Better Understand Hotspots of Food Loss and Waste (CTA 4, Food)
Increase Information Accessibility and Data Utilization (CTA 10, Food)

Location

Latin America and the Caribbean

Context

In February 2021, the Latin-American and the Caribbean Circular Economy Coalition was officially launched as a new initiative to promote circular economy with the aim of supporting the region to advance and invest in the circular economy transition as part of the COVID-19 recovery. Initiatives like the LAC Circular Economy Collation bring to evidence the region’s commitment to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

Ambition behind the Latin America and the Caribbean Circular Economy Coalition

As a platform to exchange best practices and promote South-South and North-South cooperation, the LAC Circular Economy Coalition will provide science-based knowledge on the opportunities and co-benefits of a circular economy approach. Specific goals include reducing extraction, protecting biodiversity and natural resources, minimizing pollution, avoiding further inequalities and improving people’s health and well-being.

Plan of Action

The LAC Circular Economy Coalition overall aim is to foster an imperative resilient, sustainable and inclusive economic recovery by implementing best practices through collaborative work between governments, companies and society as a whole. Such a goal includes:

Promoting eco-design and innovation in the region
Advocating for the “reduce, reuse, repair, revalue, recover and recycle” approach
Fostering long-term economic productivity, green jobs and ecosystems regeneration
Supporting access to financing by the public and private sector, with special emphasis on small and medium enterprises

In 2021, the objectives include the creation of working groups by sector (notably plastics, electronics, food and agriculture, cities and construction, industrial simbiosis and tourism) and the publication of the regional common Vision for a Circular Economy in LAC.

Partners

Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN)

Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF)

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)

Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy Coalition (PACE)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

World Economic Forum (WEF)

Contact

For further information, please reach out to info@coalicioneconomiacircular.org

African Circular Economy Alliance

Regional Alliances