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France's Anti-waste and Circular Economy Law

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France’s Anti-waste and Circular Economy Law: eliminating waste and promoting social inclusion

France’s Anti-waste and Circular Economy Law

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Ellen MacArthur Foundation
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Ellen MacArthur Foundation
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09/2021
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United Kingdom

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France’s Anti-waste and Circular Economy Law is a great example of cross-sectoral collaboration. Policymakers, municipalities, NGOs and businesses worked together with the public administration to identify a richer range of needs, solutions, and policy measures. As a result, the law is ambitious and contributes to a system-wide transition towards a circular economy.

This case study by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is part of a series of case studies that exemplify elements of the Universal circular economy policy goals (2021) in practice.

WCEF 2021
17 Aug 2021
The World Circular Economy Forum 2021 welcomes you!
WCEF 2021

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Welcome to the circular economy event of the year, World Circular Economy Forum 2021, on 13-15 September 2021!

Hosted for the first time in North America, WCEF 2021 will focus on the system level changes, or “game changers,” needed to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.

WCEF 2021
13 Sep 2021 to 15 Sep 2021
World Circular Economy Forum 2021
WCWF 2021

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Other (Canada)

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Sitra, Canada

Welcome to the circular economy event of the year, World Circular Economy Forum 2021, on 13-15 September 2021!

Hosted for the first time in North America, WCEF 2021 will focus on the system level changes, or “game changers,” needed to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.

ReNewTex - Circular Economy for Textiles

ReNewTec

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Germany

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ReNewTex
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Claus Lütke Contact details

ReNewTex is an innovation network aiming to help use synergies and gradually transform the carpet & rug industry from a linear to a circular business sector.

At present it is working as a moderated matchmaking platform where people can connect to further common ideas and needs through technological projects. After finding the topics, it supports companies in finding the right investment strategy and all the way unto the project start.

To kindle creativity ReNewTex hosts discussions about sustainability or on single topics to shape the discussion into projects.

ZENIT, the agency for innovation and European affairs of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia, moderates the talks, looking for new members and support in project planning and funding.

 

 

EU Circular Talks
08 Sep 2021
The circular economy - a transformative approach to tackle key drivers of biodiversity loss

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Marseilles
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France

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EMF, INEC, SITRA, IUCN

Resource extraction and processing are responsible for 90% of land-use related biodiversity loss. Nature conservation and restoration on their own will not be enough to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. The transition to a circular economy provides a pivotal opportunity to explore this issue. Join the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, L'Institut National de l'Economie Circulaire (INEC), the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the ECESP on 8 September at 3 p.m. CEST for the first hybrid #EUCircularTalks from the EU Pavilion at IUCN’s World Conservation Congress.

Call for applications for the selection of members of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste (2022- 2026)
23 Jun 2021
EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste – call for applications from private sector organisations
EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste

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Interested in contributing to EU efforts to fight food loss and waste? Don’t miss the opportunity to submit your application!

The Commission is calling for applications from private sector organisations with expertise and proven track record in food waste prevention to re-establish, together with public entities, the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste for its second mandate (2022-2026).

http://www.urban-waste.eu

URBAN WASTE: Reducing municipal waste generated by tourism

URBAN WASTE
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Urban Waste

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Belgium

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The URBAN WASTE project focuses on urban strategies for waste management in tourist cities. It involved stakeholders from 11 pilot areas and studied the challenges inherent in waste management so that appropriate strategies responding to real-world needs can be devised and implemented.

RECYCLO: Urban platform for the circular economy

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Belgium

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RECYCLO

RECYCLO is a multi-stakeholder cooperative society (SCRL). It provides consultancy, training and business development, with the objective of raising awareness about urban waste.

It offers a collection service tailored to urban constraints and catering for professionals. It helps them to reduce the quantity of waste produced and to sort it more effectively. Its projects are conducted by means of partnerships with private and public initiatives, and tackle issues such as recycling smartphones, biomaterials, putting orange peels to use and creating a compost site in Brussels.

http://csomagolasmentes.hu/

Ligeti Bolt: a packaging-free shop

Ligeti Bolt
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Ligeti Bolt

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Hungary

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Liegi Bolt is a packaging-free grocery shop in Budapest. The shop does not sell any products in plastic wrapping or packaging and so customers buy exactly the amount they need.

Tackling litter pollution: from obligations to actions!
02 Jun 2021
Tackling litter pollution: from obligations to actions!
Tackling litter pollution

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Paris
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France

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Citeo

As the largest Extended Producer Responsibility organisation in Europe in charge of household packaging and graphic papers, Citeo is fully concerned by the fight against litter pollution. In order to address the main questions and challenges surrounding this complex issue, Citeo is organising a coffee-break conference on Wednesday 2 June on Tackling litter pollution: from obligations to actions!

https://verasvintage.dk

Veras - multiplatform for clothing reuse and upcycling in Denmark

Veras
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Veras

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Denmark

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Based in the Danish capital Copenhagen, Veras operates several initiatives to reduce waste in the fashion sector by making it easy for everyone to swap and sell clothes. Veras is primarily an online webshop shipping to all Europe, where users can send in their own clothes. It also hosts weekly clothing markets for everyone to buy and sell clothing and has a flagship store in Copenhagen.

https://www.tomra.com/en/collection/reverse-vending/deposit-return-schemes/white...

Rewarding recycling: Learnings from the world’s highest-performing deposit return systems

Rewarding recycling

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TOMRA
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TOMRA
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02/2021
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Germany, Other (Norway)

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An increasing number of countries consider implementing a deposit return system for single-use beverage containers to address today’s challenges, i.e.:

  1. meeting new waste recovery targets,
  2. ending littering and
  3. moving towards a circular economy.

TOMRA shares lessons learnt from its 45+ years’ experience of innovating and managing deposit return systems globally in a new white paper including:

  • outcomes of effective deposit return systems
  • 4 key principles and 12 elements of high-performing deposit return systems
  • dozens of case studies on real-world implementation of deposit return policy.

The white paper seeks to contribute to an educated discussion on recycling best practice – including what can be learnt from the past and what the future may look like.

Circular Week 2021
11 Oct 2021 to 17 Oct 2021
Circular Week 2021: submit your event and help to close the circle
Circular Week 2021

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Warsaw
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Poland

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INNOWO

Circular Week, an international campaign consisting of a series of events and initiatives devoted to circular economy and sustainable development, will take place on 12-18 October 2021 throughout Europe. Its goal is to promote the idea of a circular economy, support sustainable business models and establish cooperation between interested stakeholders.

EU Green Week 2021
01 Jun 2021 to 04 Jun 2021
EU Green Week 2021: the High Level Conference
EU Green Week 2021

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EU

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European Commission

EU Green Week 2021 has chosen to focus on Zero Pollution for healthier people and planet. You are welcome to joint the virtual High Level Conference taking place on 1-4 June.

Reducing pollution goes hand in hand with achieving our climate neutrality and biodiversity objectives and will help to transform the EU into a clean and circular economy.

Second-Hand Counts!
04 Jun 2021
Towards Zero Pollution - Second-Hand Counts!
SECOND HAND COUNTS

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Germany

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HUMANA Kleidersammlung GmbH

Join us for an international online conference which is an EU Green Week 2021 Partner Event!

Producing clothes takes enormous amounts of chemicals (fertilisers, pesticides, insecticides, bleach, dyes, etc), so clothes should stay in use for as long as possible. Second-hand counts! The conference will explore the second-hand sector in the EU and its Member States, with presentations and group discussions.

#EUCircularTalks recording
25 May 2021
Insights on the EU Circular Electronics Initiative & Skills required to make it happen

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Brussels
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CSCP

The Circular Electronics Initiative is part of the European Commission's new Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP), announced in March 2020. The initiative aims to promote longer product lifetimes and includes, among others, the 'right to repair' and an improvement in the collection and treatment of no longer used electronic appliances.
CSCP, its partners and ECESP invite you on 25 May (11.00 a.m. - 12.30 noon CEST), to an #EUCircularTalks to share Insights on the EU Circular Electronics Initiative & the Skills required to make it happen.

Circular Economy Strategy Luxembourg

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Luxembourg's Circular Economy Strategy

Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
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Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
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02/2021
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Luxembourg

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Paul Schosseler Contact details

The Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg is a frontrunner in many economic sectors, including finance, construction, data-driven innovation and space resources.

In recent years, the country has sought to position itself as a hotspot for the circular economy (CE) and many ongoing public and private initiatives support this claim.

Based on these fruitful experiences and the recognition of the CE as a high priority by the Luxembourg government, which has made it a major feature of the 2018-2023 Government agreement, the current strategy aims to take the CE in Luxembourg to the next level. It identifies proven regulatory, financial and information management methods and tools for boosting circular initiatives, and proposes a methodology for using them in a number of key economic sectors.

European Commission - Continuously Open Calls
20 Apr 2021
Call for environmental organisations and experts to apply to join the Consumer Policy Advisory Group

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The New Consumer Agenda provides for the establishment of a Consumer Policy Advisory Group. There are still several seats to fill, and the European Commission would encourage environmental organisations and individual experts to apply. The deadline for applications is 20 May 2021.

Growth-positive zero-emission pathways to 2050

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Growth-positive zero-emission pathways to 2050

Sitra studies 185

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Sitra
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Paul Drummond, Daniel Scamman, Paul Ekins (UCL), Leonidas Paroussos (E3-Modelling), Ilkka Keppo (UCL and Aalto University)
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04/2021
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Finland

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Sitra commissioned this study to investigate whether and under what assumptions and policy measures the decoupling of CO2 emissions from economic growth could occur at a sufficient rate for CO2 emissions to decline to net zero by 2050. The analyses were carried out on a global level.

The results of this study show that deep CO2 emission cuts in line with the 1.5 °C target and positive GDP growth can occur at the same time.

A natural next step would be to analyse in detail the decoupling of other harmful environmental impacts from economic growth. For example, a global shift to more circular business models could reduce CO2 emissions and help cut the use of materials and natural resources while maintaining economic growth.

https://yoyo.eco

The start-up Yoyo offers a behavioural-change programme for recycling

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The start-up Yoyo offers a behavioural-change programme for recycling

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France

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Yoyo is a French start-up that has developed an innovative behavioural change approach to enhance recycling in communities.

https://goteborg.se/wps/portal/start/miljo/det-gor-goteborgs-stad/cirkulara-gote...

Circular Gothenburg

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Göteborgs Stad
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02/2021
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Circular Gothenburg focuses on resource efficiency to reduce climate change and achieve circular material flows.

It has three target groups: citizens, city departments and businesses. For all three target groups, the goal is to make it simple, straightforward and attractive to participate in transformational circular work. This includes the municipality’s in-house processes and activities which help people to live in a more circular way. One of these activities is the Fixotek: staffed facilities, close to where people live and open to everyone, where people can meet, learn, repair and redesign products, borrow tools and swap toys, clothes and books.

https://stopfoodwaste.ie/

Stop Food Waste: learn how to buy, store and cook better in Ireland

Stop food waste
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Stop Food Waste

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Ireland

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Stop Food Waste is an Irish initiative which aims to prevent food waste through better buying, storage and cooking, as well as through home composting.

https://www.re-food.org

Re-food: volunteer driven community charity working to eliminate food waste and hunger on a neighborhood basis

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Re-food

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Portugal

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Re-food is an independent, citizen driven, fully volunteer, eco-humanitarian community charity, working to eliminate food waste and hunger on a neighbourhood basis. This Portuguese movement targets at ending food waste and hunger by saving food which was going to waste at local venues.

https://www.menejodpadu.sk/elwis/

ELWIS: an Electronic Waste Registration System for a more responsible approach towards waste by households

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JRK

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Czech Republic, Slovak Republic

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In Slovakia and Czechia, an initiative set by three recent graduates has been positively impacting the sector of waste management in both countries. The Elwis Waste Registration System has the objective to increase efficiency in the cities’ waste management systems by helping reducing the amount of mixed waste.

https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/next-steps-tackling-plastic-litter-nud...

Next Steps: Tackling Plastic Litter - A Nudging Strategy for Reducing Consumption of Single‑Use Disposable Cups

Nudging

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Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
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Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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03/2021
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In this report, nudging is explored as a complement to traditional policies (regulation, economic incentives and information campaigns) to reduce the use of single-use plastics. Behavioural insights are used to develop different options to nudge consumer preferences from single-use cups to more sustainable alternatives.

Based on careful reviews and analysis of previous nudging projects, three green nudges are proposed to catalyze this shift.

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