This session will enable participants to engage in a discussion on curbing ultra-fast fashion, regulating textile waste and advancing circular solutions for the textile sector.
It is part of Generation Climate Europe’s ongoing Youth Report on Textile Waste and aims to ensure that youth perspectives inform EU-level policy discussions and recommendations.
The circular economy is increasingly recognised as a pathway to long-term economic resilience and prosperity.
However, its application to date has focused primarily on finite, technical materials, overlooking bio-based materials. This gap limits the ability of the circular economy to deliver system-wide impact.
This paper intends to shed new light on the application of the circular economy framework to bio-based materials.
It finds that better alignment of policy agendas on circular economy and bio-based materials could deliver wide-ranging socioeconomic and environmental benefits. Many countries could see this as a key opportunity in the development of bio-based sectors within global value chains. It could also help to distribute value more fairly across all actors involved.
The LIFE Awards 2026 included the Circular Economy & Quality of Life category.
The winner proposed a replicable way to reduce the amount of WEEE generated, and one of the runners up designed tools to optimise wastewater treatment while reducing waster consumption.
Waste prevention innovation in cities works, with the right conditions.
This new report reveals how two megacities built circular economy programmes that reduced waste, supported informal workers and created lasting systemic change.
It presents the lessons learned from the Circular Economy Innovation Cluster (CEIC) programme funded by the IKEA Foundation and implemented in Bengaluru, India and Nairobi, Kenya from 2023 to 2025.
The report sets out what it takes to shift urban economies away from linear, waste-making-waste-recycling models towards less waste generation in the first place.
How does Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) work in practice and what does it mean for grassroots recyclers and second-hand operators?
This session will bring together representatives of waste pickers' organisations and second-hand operators from South Africa, Chile and Europe to share their experiences with EPR policies.
This webinar will discuss what the Circular Economy Act should deliver from a practical waste-management and implementation perspective.
It will look at how local waste systems, circular economy policy and producer responsibility schemes can better support Europe’s transition towards a circular economy.
The Joint Initiative on Circular Economy (JICE) brings together the EU’s largest public promotional banks and institutions.
Against the backdrop of the expected EU Circular Economy Act and a shifting regulatory environment, JICE is launching a webinar series to deepen market understanding of financing needs, gaps and bottlenecks for the circular economy across selected sectors.
This webinar will focus on critical raw materials from e-waste.
The European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform has launched aJoint Call asking that the Circular Economy Act address nutrients and material of biological origin.
If you feel that these materials should be included in the CEA, contact the ESPP before 10 June to support their call!
This EU Green Week 2026 partner event will bring together exemplary initiatives and projects from across Europe which are reimagining value chains and demonstrating novel circular systemic solutions.
This event will explore how the circular economy drives EU strategic cooperation with Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Ibero-America.
It will explore international partnerships, innovation opportunities and funding mechanisms that support sustainable development and circular economy initiatives.
