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Producing and gathering crop and animal products from land and water through farming, hunting, and fishing

Agriculture

Processing and producing food and beverages for consumption

Food and Beverage

Preserving and conserving biological products such as food, forests, etc.

Preservation, conservation

Transforming waste products, materials for reuse within the same industry

Closed loop upcycling

Make collected and sorted recyclables available for use by citizens, small businesses up to large scale industrial processes. 

Use recyclables

Collect organic waste generated by households and related businesses for use in, for example, composting and anaerobic digestion facilities.

Collect organic

Locally produced food has to travel shorter, which means less fuel is consumed and less greenhouse gases are generated. Moreover, buying locally produced food helps local farmers and markets and creates more jobs in the local businesses. 


Produce locally

Recover and collect surplus food products that might otherwise be wasted for distribution to people.


Redistribute surplus 

In the context of cities, regenerating ecosystems refers to the active protection of native habitats or the conservation and restoration of natural habitat analogues. Examples: reforestation and afforestation in urban contexts, protection of birds and local wildlife, management of green spaces, and removal of waste and plastic (or other anti pollution measures).

Regenerate ecosystems

Derive chemicals and fuels from organic waste matter, for example, wasted fats, grease and oils can be used for biodiesel production. Food waste such as corn starch and sugar cane can be used for PLA (Polylactic Acid) to replace plastic packaging, liquid fats and solid meat products can be used as raw materials in the rendering industry (animal food, cosmetics, soap, etc.).


Derive fuel and materials

Other

Industries

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The principles of a circular economy concern designing out waste, regenerating ecosystems and keeping items in use. Decoupling the economy from material flows—improving the rate of resource productivity faster than the economic growth rate—is also a consistent guide. By evolving with the growing number of applications of circular economy principles, and consolidating these strategies across thematic areas, Circle Economy’s Key Elements Framework (KE) renders the elements of the circular economy salient and serves as a basis to derive contextual strategies and interventions. 


The Framework consists of:
- Core Elements: Activities directly handling product or material flows; and uniquely,
- Enabling Elements: those that remove obstacles for core actors.


Key elements of the circular economy

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Circle Economy's framework of strategies and activities that define the circular economy

Urban Opportunities

                           "Cracking new ways to fight plastic waste." BBC News   "I guess you could call these guys the fruit superheroes." A Daily Dose Of Holly   "One of London’s most ethical food innovators." Farmdrop   "I'm bananas about Snact's banana bars because the level of banana waste in the UK is just, well... bananas!" Tristram Stuart, founder of Feedback and Toast Ale   "Snacks… so good when trekking, so hard to source plastic free. Until now! Have a look at Snact." Plastic Is Rubbish                                             

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Snact 

<p>Tonnes of perfectly good fruit and vegetables get rejected before reaching shop shelves in the UK. That's produce that would otherwise be thrown away for being too big, too small, too ugly, or simply too abundant. Snact is a company that turns that surplus into healthy snacks . Read more at:</p>