This collection is being created to regroup all case studies related to the packaging industry (CAT purpose)

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Packaging collection

Policy case

Work together throughout the supply chain, internally within organisations and with the public sector and communities to increase transparency and create joint value

Team up to create joint value

Engage with the local community where facilities or offices are located

Community collaboration

Initiatives with disadvantaged communities, minorities, people distanced from the labour market

Give-back programmes

'Inform' increases the overall levels of awareness and builds the necessary skills and knowledge around the circular economy to foster long-term change.

Inform

Data, knowledge & information sharing

'Mobilise' sets the direction of and builds momentum towards long-term change, while also determining how this direction is determined and governed.

Mobilise

 Convene Towards Action

Crowdsourcing and challenge mechanisms

A framework of policy instruments that enabled and encourage the transition to the circular economy

Policy Instruments

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A framework of policy instruments that enable and stimulate the transition to the circular economy

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

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Based on the work of [Bocken et al. (2016)](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309699661_Product_design_and_business_model_strategies_for_a_circular_economy), the Four Flows Framework serves as a simple framework for managing resource flows in a circular economy by using less (Narrow), using for longer (Slow), using again (Cycle), and using clean, regenerative materials and energy (Regenerate).

These different principles of circular economy can be applied to our socioeconomic metabolism: we can design stocks like buildings, infrastructure, machinery, and vehicles to be rich resource mines for the future, and design manufactured goods and consumables to be cycled and made regenerative. Furthermore, the focus must also centre on getting more value out of fewer materials. Achieving the aims of a circular economy—minimising material use, regenerating the Earth, and preventing material losses—can be done through these four key strategies mentioned above.

Source: Circle Economy. (2023). *[The circularity gap report 2023](https://www.circularity-gap.world/2023)* (p.22). Amsterdam: Circle Economy. 

Four Flows Framework

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Lajee Center

This case study showcases how the Lajee Center is providing vocational training to marginalized refugee women, empowering them with new skills and opportunities.

 Lajee Center: Empowering Marginalized Refugee Women Through Vocational Training

Business case

Sykell is a startup that is rethinking the way we package goods. The company has developed a range of innovative reusable containers in an open pool system to tackle the problem of plastic food waste.

Rethinking packaging: Sykell's reusable approach

Finland

Espoo Story, which sets important circular objectives such as sustainable construction, addresses biodiversity issues in a context of growing urbanisation and provides sustainable consumption choices for citizens. A 4 year programme called Sustainable Espoo has been set up involving both internal and external stakeholders to coordinate the implementation of the sustainability objectives set in the city strategy. The city is also developing a proper Circular Economy Roadmap that will be closely connected to its carbon neutrality 2030 roadmap.

Including circular economy into Espoo city's strategy

Growpack creates lignocellulosic biomaterials through farm-to-market schemes and efficient conversion technology.

Circular and regenerative technologies around lignin and cellulose

ReciVeci connects citizens with grassroots recyclers - ReciVeci unites all recycling actors through a formal system recovery of door-to-door, post-consumer packaging. It is the first social and technological innovation tool for inclusive recycling in Ecuador.

Grassroot recycling with ReciVeci

Pragma focuses on innovation for reverse logistics, impact projects and circular economy.

Innovative solutions to overcome circularity challenges

MiTerro is working on home compostable flexible packaging materials from agricultural waste, in order to replace single-use plastic and paper-based materials while giving additional incomes to farmers all around the world.

Engineer Biomass Waste to End Microplastic

RSU Brasil is developing a technology capable to transform recycling materials into clean energy with high efficiency.

RSU Brasil: From wasted materials to efficient energy

While Budapest does not have a specific circular economy strategy, measures related to circularity areembedded in both the city’s Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP) and the Mid-term UrbanDevelopment Strategy, ensuring an integrated approach to circular economy governance. Those measures include recycling and reuse drop-off points, turning bio-waste into energy, rainwater retention incentives, and community composting.

Budapest: Towards an integrated approach to circular economy governance

Although Évora does not have a specific circular economy strategy, the topics of sustainability and circularity are central to the city’s municipal policies. They are particularly visible in the work of the Operational Services and Economic Development departments as well as the Education and Social Intervention and Youth and Sports Divisions.Together with 11 other municipalities in the Alentejo Central region, Évora shares a series of waste and recycling targets including achieving a recycling rate of 80%, achieving recovery of over 48kg of urban solid waste per inhabitant per year, and implementing the separate collection and processing of bio-waste by the end of 2023.