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    Samenwerken een circulaire fietsinfrastructuur. Een integrale en systematische aanpak.

    Frontpage Samenwerken een circulaire fietsinfrastructuur.
    Author
    Maarten Barckhof
    Publication Date
    01/2020
    Country
    Netherlands
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    Maarten Barckhof, chairman of Stichting Circulair Bouwen

    Samen werken aan circulaire fietsinfrastructuur. Een integrale en systematische aanpak by Stichting Circulair Bouwen is a report on a 2-year programme carried out with EU funds on building a circular bicycle road infrastructure. Over this period of time, valuable information has been gathered on how to promote and organize circular building efficiently.

    To follow up on the programme, a multi-year project will be carried out in cooperation with governments, companies, educational institutions and NGOs, under the lead of the Radboud University Nijmegen, which will include two important policy fields:

    • encouraging cycling (low carbon, public health, better access to congested cities, car traffic reduction) and
    • the circular construction of bicycle lanes.
  • Sustainable Packaging in a Circular Economy
    Type
    online course (MOOC)
    Author
    Delft University of Technology
    Publication Date
    02/2020
    Country
    Netherlands
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    Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is offering a 100 % online course on Sustainable Packaging in a Circular Economy. Students and professionals with basic knowledge of the circular economy and an interest in or experience of packaging can start studying anytime, at the time and place of their choosing. The course material is accessible 24/7. This is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that runs on edX.

    The course programme includes:

    • Business strategies that support sustainable packaging systems
    • Opportunities for designing with renewable, bio-based materials
    • Best practices through case studies with industry frontrunners
    • How circular design principles can be applied to create 'closed loop' packaging systems.

    You can enrol here.

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    Green Generation - Together for the Earth

    Green Generation - Together for the Earth
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    Polish Chamber of Digital Economy
    Publication Date
    01/2020
    Country
    Poland
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    The Polish Chamber of Digital Economy, an Ecommerce Europe member, has published a report on sustainability in e-commerce.

    This report, titled Green Generation, shows that Polish consumers generally spot environmentally-unfriendly behaviours of retailers, but they do not quite want to take responsibility for making e-commerce less harmful to the environment; only one in five consumers is willing to wait longer for a shipment to be delivered through a grouped consignment.

    As they already engage in some environmentally-friendly practices, such as collecting parcels from dedicated points, they do not seem willing to take up financial responsibility, such as paying extra charges for more ecological packaging or deliveries.

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    Circular Economy and Territorial Consequences

    Circular Economy and Territorial Consequences
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    Carlos Tapia, Marco Bianchi, Mirari Zaldua (Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Spain); Marion Courtois, Philippe Micheaux Naudet (ACR+, Belgium); Andrea Bassi, Georg Pallaske (KnowlEdge, Italy)
    Jan-Philipp Kramer, Bärbel Birnstengel, Mirjam Buck, Richard Simpson, Adriana Cruz (Prognos, Belgium); Ruslan Zhechkov, Asel Doranova, Nathan Kably (Technopolis, Belgium)
    Henning Wilts, Sören Steger, Meghan O’Brien, Carina Koop, Valerie Wischott (Wuppertal Institute, Germany)
    Publication Date
    05/2019
    Country
    EU
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    Carlos Tapia Garcia (Tecnalia)
    Marjan van Herwijnen (ESPON EGTC)

    What does the circular economy (CE) mean from a territorial perspective?

    This report by the ESPON CIRCTER project provides:

    1. a territorial definition of a CE based on resource consumption and waste generation intensities and trends across European NUTS2 regions
    2. a comparison with other socio-economic trends like employment dynamics and economic growth
    3. evaluation of the territorial factors most critical for CE transformations
    4. a description of the systemic mechanisms facilitating CE transitions at territorial levels
    5. an illustration of policy approaches and best practices supporting the transition towards a CE in various territorial contexts, and
    6. guidance supporting local and regional authorities in defining CE strategies.
  • European Environment Agency
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    EEA
    Publication Date
    01/2020
    Country
    Denmark
    EU
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    Ioannis Bakas

    Construction and demolition waste (C&DW) makes up just over one third of total waste generation in the EU. Despite relatively high recovery rates of used materials, Europe’s construction sector will need to be even more ambitious in its waste management practices if it is to fully embrace Europe’s circular economy.

    According to this European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing, circular approaches are key to increasing the quality and quantity of recycling and reuse of construction and demolition materials. The document examines how circular economy-inspired actions can help achieve waste policy objectives, namely waste prevention and increase both the quantity and the quality of recycling for C&DW while reducing hazardous materials in the waste.

  • EEA Briefing
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    Briefing
    Author
    Özlem Durmus (EEA), European Topic Centre on Waste and Materials in a Green Economy (ETC/WMGE)
    Publication Date
    10/2019
    Country
    EU
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    Ozlem Durmus

    Europe relies heavily on material resources for almost all of society’s activities. Its extraction and production of material resources have significant impacts on the environment and human health, as well as the economy.

    It is essential to reuse resources in European economies, keeping their value high, delivering value for longer periods and reducing the need to use virgin materials. While progress is being made in Europe, by implementing an ambitious waste policy and the Circular Economy Framework, significant amounts of valuable resources are still lost through inefficient waste management practices.

    This briefing describes material losses in Europe for some key waste streams, namely waste electrical and electronic equipment, end-of-life batteries, plastic and textile waste.

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    The plastic waste trade in the circular economy

    The plastic waste trade in the circular economy
    Type
    Briefing
    Author
    Lars Mortensen (EEA)
    Publication Date
    10/2019
    Country
    EU
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    Lars Mortensen

    Europe is at crossroads regarding its management of plastic, plastic waste and the plastic waste trade. Rapidly growing amounts of plastic have negative environmental and climate impacts.

    Plastic and plastic waste are traded worldwide. Exporting plastic waste from the EU to Asia is a means of dealing with insufficient recycling capacities in the EU. Waste import restrictions in China have shifted exports to other countries. Because some types of plastic waste have been added to the United Nations Basel Convention, the option of exporting plastic waste is becoming increasingly difficult.

    This briefing provides an overview of exports of plastic waste from the 28 EU Member States (EU-28) to other countries and discusses its possible consequences and opportunities.

  • Country factsheets on resource efficiency and circular economy in Europe
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    Bart Ullstein, Bettina-Bahn Walkowiak, Jeroen Gillabel, Margareta Wahlström, Jutta Laine-Ylijoki, Dirk Nelen, Theo Geerken, Veronique Van Hoof and Evelien Dils (ETC/WMGE) and Pawel Kazmierczyk and Daniel Montalvo (EEA)
    Publication Date
    07/2019
    Country
    EU
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    Daniel Montalvo

    A set of 32 country factsheets has been produced that summarise policies and initiatives on the area of resource efficiency and circular economy.

    These country profiles are based on information reported by the Eionet network and, in particular, the National Reference Centres on Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy. The information is current as of March 2019, when members of Eionet verified the content of their respective profiles.

    Each country profile was prepared as part of the 2019 European Environment Agency review of material resource efficiency, circular economy and raw material supply policies, which aimed to collect, analyse, and disseminate information about experience with the development and implementation of these policies in EEA member and cooperating countries.

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    Preventing plastic waste in Europe

    EEA Report
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    Henning Wilts (ETC/WMGE), Ioannis Bakas (EEA).
    Dirk Nelen, Kévin Le Blevennec, Ulrike Meinel, Bettina Bahn‑Walkowiak, Mona Arnold (all ETC/WMGE). Lars Fogh Mortensen, Almut Reichel, Daniel Montalvo (EEA)
    Publication Date
    06/2019
    Country
    EU
    Language for original content
    Scope
    Ioannis Bakas

    This report from the European Environment Agency reviews waste prevention policies in Europe with a focus on how these policies approach the issue of plastics and plastic waste.

    Waste prevention is at the centre of EU waste legislation as it delivers the most effective results in dealing with environmental issues around waste, placing it at the top of EU and national waste strategies and legislation.

    Waste prevention can be implemented in any waste stream, but it needs to be customised to reflect each stream's particularities. This report focuses on plastic waste, as there is potential for substantial mitigation of the environmental issues raised by increased plastic consumption through the use of waste prevention instruments and mechanisms.

     

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    The Circular Economy in policy and scientific research

    The Circular Economy in policy and scientific research
    Author
    Joanna Kulczycka
    Publication Date
    12/2019
    Country
    Poland
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    Joanna Kulczycka

    A broad selection of articles on Circular Economy and its practices in Poland collected by prof. Joanna Kulczycka. After definitions and interperatations, this work is about circular economy related issues

    • indicators in selected EU countries
    • financing of business activities
    • matching circular business models with priority sectors in Poland
    • establishing measurement for circular economy transformation and its socio-economic impacts in Poland
    • indicators in Polish regional perspective
    • assessment of material consumption
    • supporting managerial accounting instruments
    • system upgrade
    • solutions for mining and processing waste
    • sustainable consumption
    • good practices at national and international level.
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