Redesigning our economic model for a circular economy #LivingCircular
Read the report on the circular conference organized by the Veolia Foundation.
Source: www.livingcircular.veolia.com
Read the report on the circular conference organized by the Veolia Foundation.
Source: www.livingcircular.veolia.com
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Sustainability is increasingly becoming a key area for businesses to address and with climate change getting too obvious to ignore, regulators are becoming stricter as well as customers, employees, and investors.
The UN Economic Commission for Europe released a toolbox of instruments to support governments’ adoption of a more circular economy. The instruments include legal frameworks, policy analysis documents, and good practice guidance.
Among the instruments, the document highlights UN regulations that help create a “loop” to optimize the use of resources, such as regulating the reuse of vehicle tire carcasses by renewing the tire’s tread and enabling it to have a second or third life.
Harnessing trade for circularity, one initiative aims to reduce food loss and waste in agricultural trade and supply chains.
The toolbox points to several resources on people-first public-private partnerships (PPPs), including Guidelines on Promoting People-first PPP in Waste-to-Energy Projects for the Circular Economy. Another resource is a set of good practices on promoting innovation for sustainable consumption and production.
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Experts from Herriot-Watt University in Edinburgh say that replacing plastic with alternate materials such as metal and glass would lead to more energy consumption and triple greenhouse gases.