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Circular economy: Council and Parliament strike provisional deal on the right to repair directive
The world’s material circularity currently stands at 7.2% - having decreased from the 8.6% material circularity recorded for 2020 and the 9.1% for 2018. This downward trend must be reversed if we are to support 9+ billion people living well within the boundaries of our by the mid-century. And the flow of product and material data can play a pivotal huge role in making this possible.
Data has the potential to support actors across the value chain in making informed decisions, optimizing processes, and identifying opportunities for circularity. In light of the developing Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, data-sharing tools like the Digital Product Passport can facilitate the sharing of such information, enabling various circular strategies and service business models.
This research provides a practical example of the data flows that may exist and be utilized to enable a circular economy across four sectors: the chemical, electronics, construction, and textile (apparel) sectors. Through the mapping of purpose-driven data-flows, companies can better prepare for a regulation that seeks to drive circularity and retain material value, while bring about synergies and intricacies between them.
Data has the potential to support actors across the value chain in making informed decisions, optimizing processes, and identifying opportunities for circularity. In light of the developing Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, data-sharing tools like the Digital Product Passport can facilitate the sharing of such information, enabling various circular strategies and service business models.
This research provides a practical example of the data flows that may exist and be utilized to enable a circular economy across four sectors: the chemical, electronics, construction, and textile (apparel) sectors. Through the mapping of purpose-driven data-flows, companies can better prepare for a regulation that seeks to drive circularity and retain material value, while bring about synergies and intricacies between them.
The European Commission plans to introduce a Digital Product Passport (DPP) for all products offered on the European market. Using a systems perspective, Metabolic identified opportunities for the circular economy that would open up if data was intentionally shared across value chains. The study also delves into industry apprehensions surrounding the implementation of these passports, providing an overview of the initiative’s potential benefits and challenges.
The global economy can be characterized as “linear” as it is mainly based on extraction, production, use and disposal. This linear economy leads to resource depletion, biodiversity losses, waste and pollution causing serious damage to the capacity of our planet to continue to provide for the needs of future generations. Moreover several planetary boundaries are already reached or exceeded.
To meet our current and future human needs (welfare, housing, nutrition, healthcare, mobility, etc.), there is an increased understanding that a transition towards an economy that is more circular, based on a circular flow of resources, can create and share more value with society and stakeholders, while natural resources are managed and regenerated in a sustainable way, securing the quality and resilience of ecosystems.
Organizations recognize many potential reasons to engage in a circular economy, e.g., delivering more competitive, and sustainable solutions; improved relationships with stakeholders; more effective and efficient ways to fulfil voluntary commitments or legal requirements; engaging in climate change mitigation or adaptation; managing resource scarcity risks, increasing resilience in the environmental, social and economic systems, while contributing to satisfying human needs.
The ISO 59000 series of documents (see Figure 1) is designed to harmonize the understanding of the circular economy and to support its implementation and measurement.
The series also supports organizations, such as government, industry, and non-profit organizations in contributing to the achievement of the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
To meet our current and future human needs (welfare, housing, nutrition, healthcare, mobility, etc.), there is an increased understanding that a transition towards an economy that is more circular, based on a circular flow of resources, can create and share more value with society and stakeholders, while natural resources are managed and regenerated in a sustainable way, securing the quality and resilience of ecosystems.
Organizations recognize many potential reasons to engage in a circular economy, e.g., delivering more competitive, and sustainable solutions; improved relationships with stakeholders; more effective and efficient ways to fulfil voluntary commitments or legal requirements; engaging in climate change mitigation or adaptation; managing resource scarcity risks, increasing resilience in the environmental, social and economic systems, while contributing to satisfying human needs.
The ISO 59000 series of documents (see Figure 1) is designed to harmonize the understanding of the circular economy and to support its implementation and measurement.
The series also supports organizations, such as government, industry, and non-profit organizations in contributing to the achievement of the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
This study "The Digital Circular Economy" is the result of the project Digitalisation and Circular Economy, which the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Cradle to Cradle NGO carried out together in 2023. Using different industries and specific use cases as examples, the study analyses how the potential of digitalisation for circular value creation can be leveraged in Germany and Europe.
ETC products are usually not (with some exceptions) subject to a review by the Eionet countries and do not formally represent the view of the European Environment Agency.
Circular economy solutions are needed to safeguard biodiversity and solve the climate crisis. Join us in creating a fair transition to a society in which we maintain the value of what we produce through smarter design and shifting from owning products to using services.
Circlolink's B2B and B2C DPP tools plus cloud APP connects products to full circularity, increasing the brands ROI, collecting unprecedented LCA data and fosters new interconnected circular partnerships.
PaperTale is building an ecosystem that gathers and
verifies supply chain data, in real-time.
verifies supply chain data, in real-time.
Key lessons from Finnish pilots to support the development of circular economy business models
Circular economy business models in the electronics sector such as rental, second hand and repair are rapidly gaining importance as they aim to reduce resource consumption by optimizing product use. However, it remains difficult to quantify the actual positive impact of these models and there is currently no standardized approach.
The „Undress Project“, implemented and led by Circularity in collaboration with Systemiq and Fraunhofer IZM and 12 industry partners, and supported by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt and Deloitte, sets out to develop a methodological framework and practical guide to assess the environmental impact of circular business models for the case of consumer electronics. This project will provide much-needed key insights for the transition to a truly sustainable circular economy, with the electronics sector leading the way.
The „Undress Project“, implemented and led by Circularity in collaboration with Systemiq and Fraunhofer IZM and 12 industry partners, and supported by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt and Deloitte, sets out to develop a methodological framework and practical guide to assess the environmental impact of circular business models for the case of consumer electronics. This project will provide much-needed key insights for the transition to a truly sustainable circular economy, with the electronics sector leading the way.
The CURE project aims to:
Help establish Centres for Urban Re-manufacturing in different cities
Evaluate if CUREs facilitate waste prevention through reuse and re-manufacturing
Document and analyse how the centres operate
Facilitate knowledge exchange between the different centres and initiatives involved
Promote improvised re-manufacturing among the general public and interested actors
Help establish Centres for Urban Re-manufacturing in different cities
Evaluate if CUREs facilitate waste prevention through reuse and re-manufacturing
Document and analyse how the centres operate
Facilitate knowledge exchange between the different centres and initiatives involved
Promote improvised re-manufacturing among the general public and interested actors
Das "Haus der Transformation" versteht sich als Plattform innerhalb der HTW Berlin, die Studierende, Lehrende, Forschende und Akteur_innen aus Wirtschaft, Politik und Zivilgesellschaft vernetzt und die vielfältigen Engagements in den Bereichen Zukunftsfähigkeit und Nachhaltigkeitstransformation bündelt. Gemeinsam sollen interdisziplinäre Transformationsprojekte geplant und ihre Sichtbarkeit erhöht werden. Im Fokus stehen zukunftsfähige Projekte und Transformationsgedanken mit regionalem Bezug. Zu den Projekten gehören
Making the invisible, visible
Imagining a better future for the repair & reuse economy in Kenya
Imagining a better future for the repair & reuse economy in Kenya
U.S. petrochemicals giant Dow Inc and the Singapore government said they were transforming old sneakers into playgrounds and running tracks. Reuters put that promise to the test by planting hidden trackers inside 11 pairs of donated shoes. Most got exported instead.
THE WASTE LAND is an artistic representation of hundred days of everyday waste. The project starts with collecting, documenting, and recycling personal household waste during the first 100 days of 2022. The process is developing along the thread of self-awareness, and it is fleeting in multiple pieces of waste on a day-to-day basis. The awareness of “environmental protection” becomes concrete when the micro-level actions are required. The project seeks different art forms to present the results by diving into the documentation – photographs, videos, physical items of waste, sorted pictures, interactive installations. Meanwhile, through AI technology, the project explores a possible timeline for future waste predictions.
But inside the square-mile slum, made famous in the movie "Slumdog Millionaire," is a bustling micro-economy filled with industry and commerce that generates some $665 million per year, according to Reality Gives, a non-profit that runs tours of Dharavi and uses the money to run community centers and classes for its 1 million residents. The workers and residents of Dharavi export leather goods, suitcases, baked goods, textiles, stoves, and an array of other products into the broader Indian economy.
The 13th Compound is at the heart of Dharavi’s recycling industry. An estimated 80% of Mumbai’s plastic waste is recycled in the slum, in some 15,000 single-room factories.
Over the years, Dharavi dwellers have created an industrial economy in Mumbai, creating employment opportunities for the recycling of Mumbai’s waste, an undertaking that arguably should be addressed by local councils.
This project will advance core understanding of maintenance and repair practices and connect these to long-standing concerns around the design, innovation, and sustainability of new computational tools and infrastructures. Technology maintenance and repair constitute central elements in the long-term impact and sustainability of computing tools and infrastructures. While there is tremendous need for understanding their effects on engineering development, maintenance and repair have been systematically underrepresented in human-computer research to date. By improving the design-repair nexus, this project seeks not only to study sustainability but also enhance it. Pedagogically, it develops new repair-centered teaching and learning strategies for education in engineering and the social sciences.
RREUSE is an international network representing social enterprises active in re-use, repair and recycling.
The linear ‘take, make, use, and dispose’ economy is driving the climate emergency. Extraction and processing of natural resources make up half of the total global greenhouse gas emissions and over 90% of water stress and biodiversity loss impact, according to the International Resource Panel. Product re-use and repair are the building blocks of circular economy, which can contribute to climate change mitigation by preventing resource depletion, diverting products and materials from landfills and incineration (therefore preventing associated emissions), and reducing energy demand.
Pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change have all resulted from current lifestyles. Reversing course and getting people to act sustainably requires more than information, technology and new laws, particularly when change is in the hands of individuals. This is why Behaven works with governments and businesses to harness the power of behavioural science to make people actors of sustainability, and encourage the behaviours that benefit society and the planet the most.
One human’s trash is another human’s treasure. eBay Kleinanzeigen can give you more than you can imagine. Nestled among classifieds for furniture, flats, repair services, tantra massages, and baby clothes, you can find four Out of Scale listings. Occupying advert spaces of commerce and exchange, Anna Ehrenstein and Jeanne-Ange Wagne, Elio J Carranza, Nora Al-Badri, and Nazanin Noori offer their perspectives of the networked politics of the city. Find yourself in these distributed networks of revolt, resistance and dissidence.
MARR’s mission is to challenge the perception of waste culture by providing a unique platform for artists at the intersection of art, community, and waste systems. The Moab area is highly impacted by the tourism industry and, as a result, waste management. By facilitating artists’ direct engagement with the waste stream, MARR encourages resident artists to consider their studio practice through the lens of sustainability and to thoughtfully re-assess their processes of material sourcing and waste disposal.
Through a 4-week residency, the program offers artists studio space, project and community facilitation, a stipend, access to materials at local waste disposal sites, and the time and space to focus solely on their art. As a component of each residency, artists spend time providing opportunities for learning, dialog and enrichment within the community.
Through a 4-week residency, the program offers artists studio space, project and community facilitation, a stipend, access to materials at local waste disposal sites, and the time and space to focus solely on their art. As a component of each residency, artists spend time providing opportunities for learning, dialog and enrichment within the community.
We design and build products from excess fabrics and waste.