The Sustainable Procurement Platform is managed by ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability. It provides up-to-date news, case studies, events and guidance on sustainable procurement from across the world.
Its focus is sustainable and circular procurement. Circular procurement involves considering the whole lifecycle of products throughout their supply chain and ensuring that the products and services acquired generate benefits not only for the buyer, but also for the environment, society and the economy.
The platform showcases replicable sustainable, circular and innovation procurement approaches and strategies. Its resource centre contains over 200 case studies setting out the methods used, the obstacles overcome and successes achieved in implementing sustainable public procurement.
The Swedish Life Cycle Center is an initiative by the Swedish Energy Agency, hosted by Chalmers University of Technology, which strengthens collaboration and encourages more organisations to apply a life cyle perspective in Sweden.
It focuses on life cycle thinking about products. This means considering not just what happens during its production or use, but also how the raw materials were made and what happens after the user no longer wants it.
Enea has designed an industrial symbiosis platform intended for businesses and other entities located in Italy.
It aims to bring together supply of and demand for resources (materials, energy by-products, water, services and expertise) and create the conditions to transfer these between stakeholders. The goal is to create a network of Italian enterprises in line with the principles of industrial symbiosis.
Enterprises register and list at least one resource they want to share, and a match is identified. The platform can also analyse an enterprise's resource management system with a view to finding ways to optimise it, both internally and externally (based on collaboration or industrial symbiosis).
Taranto Circolare is a platform that connects up companies, projects and funding with a view to fostering circular opportunities in the region.
It aims to create a network of actors that are in synergy locally, while also catering for national and international companies looking for opportunities in Puglia. It is driven by the Tondo association, which aims to develop and consolidate sustainable and circular projects in this urban area.
The platform will give companies, public authorities and organisations the opportunity to be part of a network implementing circular projects, provide specific tools and help actors measure the circularity of services and products.
It aims to influence policy discussions by enabling progressive businesses across sectors and value chains to join forces. It brings together companies committed to using climate neutral and sustainable materials and which are raising awareness about the need for EU measures to help decarbonise materials.
The key objective is to drive the development and implementation of and support for more ambitious, future-proof policies, programmes and initiatives in Europe with a view to creating an ecosystem moving rapidly away from the energy- and resource-intensive production of materials.
Threads of Change is a new platform created by Humana People to People that highlights the transformative role of the second-hand clothing (SHC) industry in fostering sustainability, economic growth and social equity.
This initiative calls for supporting policies with a holistic perspective for a sector that is key to reducing environmental impact, creates green jobs along the global value chain, and contributes greatly to the EU’s GDP while minimising the use of scarce resources.
The platform's main aim is to spotlight the SHC industry's critical role in shaping a more sustainable textile sector. Help us build a case for an even more efficient and ambitious textile value chain by sharing your best practices or your views on the topic!
Tondo is a hub of organisations dedicated to the circular economy, working to create an ecosystem for universities, start-ups, companies, organisations and individuals to foster innovation, entrepreneurship and circularity.
In addition to creating a space where entrepreneurs, innovators and designers can develop projects related to the circular economy, Tondo furthers knowlege of circular topics, supports new, circular-oriented companies and helps established companies become more circular.
Tondo aims to make the circular economy part of people's daily lives, accelerating the transition towards a regenerative and circular industrial and economic system.
It prepares reports and runs various events and workshops. Individuals and companies can join the platform's community.
Turuta is a project for mutual exchange and enrichment. Starting in 2010 as an experimental microeconomy project, it led to the "turuta market", based on a social currency called turuta (a traditional military march played during Carnival parades). This is used to pay for local goods and services, promoting local production and exchange. Each partner in the turuta market has an online account.
It is a living project being developed by the members of the local ecological economic ecosystem at Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona.
UKCPN has created a community of stakeholders in order to share best practices, focused on unlocking the most critical, short-term barriers to plastics circularity. It works to :
eliminate the volume of plastic waste arising from within the UK;
raise awareness and share best practices to improve the rate of plastic recycling in the UK;
share best practices to reduce levels of confusion amongst the public and highlight user-centred design;
showcase innovation geared to reducing the amount of plastic which ends up in the environment;
UKCPN is supported by UK Research and Innovation and forms part of the Plastics Research Innovation Fund (PRIF), which is engaging Britain’s best scientists and innovators to help move the country towards more circular and sustainable approaches to plastics.
Up2Circ is an international project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme. The overall aim is to help European SMEs go circular.
The project assists SMEs: there are awareness-raising and training modules and information on how to apply for EU funding. The platform has prepared a catalogue of its success stories.
The platform is also building a network of stakeholders: people with access to many SMEs, expertise in a given sector and/or the circular economy, advanced technologies or social innovation. These people will have access to Up2Circ's tools for helping SMEs.
The website also has information on circular events. The project organisers have experience with assisting SMEs; with this project they are focusing on the circular dimension.
