This European Investment Bank Guidance Note supports the integration of circular economy principles into procurement practices.
It provides practical tools and examples covering everything from early planning and market engagement to tendering, contract management and performance monitoring.
Municipal waste companies are at the forefront of the circular transition, linking waste collection and recycling systems with producer responsibility schemes. By coordinating infrastructure, investment and operations, they enable resource recovery at scale.
This guide helps them turn circular economy ambitions into effective local action.
This implementation guide helps cities integrate circular economy principles into urban planning and decision making. It shows how existing planning instruments can support the reuse, adaptation and intensification of buildings, infrastructure and land, reducing resource consumption, limiting urban sprawl and protecting valuable ecosystems.
This guide provides practical guidance, steps and tools for cities and regions interested in designing, implementing and continuously improving effective support measures, using a systemic and ecosystem-based approach.
A practical framework for structuring operational, traceability and material-flow evidence into buyer-readable documentation for circular value chains, procurement review and cross-border supplier due diligence.
The SUSTRACK Toolkit was developed under the Horizon Europe project SUSTRACK.
It provides practical tools, policy briefs, case studies and guidance to help policymakers, businesses and researchers accelerate the transition to a circular and sustainable bio-based economy.
KAVA Call 14 - RIS Innovation is looking for projects developing new technologies, products, services or business models in the raw materials value chain.
The projects must focus on exploration, sustainable mining, processing, circularity, recycling or substitution.
During this project, ten European cities laid the foundations for a sustainable, just and productive transition towards a functioning circular economy, designing Integrated Action Plans for the circular economy.
This flipbook is the project's final output, containing results, recommendations and numerous good practices.
The InvestCEC project aimed to bridge the gap between local action and EU-wide ambition, offering investment readiness support and raising a fund to enable public/private partnerships.
It produced five factsheets setting out guides and replication materials developed by the project.
The CityLoops project was a Horizon 2020 project which ran from 2019 to 2023. It focused on circular economy solutions for bio-waste and construction and demolition waste (CDW). The project produced various tools, including these recommendations.
