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This collection features circular practices across several industries in Taiwan: Agriculture & Food, Textiles and Fashion, Buildings, Furniture and Appliances, Vehicles, Packaging and Containers, Electronics and Chemicals, etc. 

Circular Taiwan Network (CTN) is a leadership initiative in Taiwan that brings together governments, businesses, universities, and NGOs to facilitate the transition to a circular economy. CTN aims to enhance understanding and implementation of the circular economy across Taiwan. We catalyze collaborations in the hope that more circular policies and sustainable business solutions may be created and that the circular economy may flourish in Taiwan. CTN has published two books, ‘Circular Economy’ and ‘Circular Taiwan’, along with several specialized reports, to promote awareness and practices of circular economy in Taiwan.

To learn more about Circular Taiwan Network visit [https://circular-taiwan.org/en/](https://circular-taiwan.org/en/)

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Circular Taiwan Network

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Business case

Collection programmes that process products and parts for reuse or recycling within the same industry

Closed loop collection

**Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns**

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The world is seriously off track in its effort to halve per-capita food waste and losses by 2030.The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on consumption and production patterns, with disruptions to global supply chains and changes in consumer behaviour. 

Responsible consumption and production must be an integral part of the recovery from the pandemic. 
But the global economy also needs to speed up the decoupling of economic growth from resource use by maximizing the socio-economic benefits of resources while minimizing their negative impacts. 

Reporting on corporate sustainability has tripled since the beginning of the SDG period, but the private sector will need to significantly improve reporting on activities that contribute to the SDGs. 

This primarily entails environmentally sound management of "toxic chemicals" A substantial use of chemicals is essential to meet the social and economic goals of the world community, and these can be used with a high degree of safety when best practices are followed.  Gross chemical contamination, with grave damage to human health, genetic structures reproductive outcomes, and the environment, has been continuing within some of the world's most important industrial areas, and restoration will require major investment as well as the development of new techniques.
Effective control of the generation, storage, treatment, recycling and reuse, transport, recovery and disposal of hazardous wastes is another similar challenge. 
In addition,  solid wastes include all domestic refuse and non-hazardous wastes such as commercial and institutional wastes, street sweepings construction debris, and, in some countries, human wastes. As hazardous waste is frequently intermixed with other waste, this poses particular management challenges.
Finally, this target ensures that radioactive waste is safely managed, transported, stored and disposed of, with a view to protecting human health and the environment. 

To deliver SDG12, it is crucial to implement policies that support the shift to sustainable practices and decouple economic growth from resource use.

Sources: [https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal12](https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal12)
[https://sdgs.un.org/topics/chemicals-and-waste](https://sdgs.un.org/topics/chemicals-and-waste)

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12. Responsible consumption and production

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Using waste materials that have been processed and recycled to produce new products within the same industry

Using closed loop recycled materials

Designing products to remove any barriers to recycling and enable easy recyclability

Design for recycling

Producing building materials and finished and semi-finished building products for construction

Construction Materials and Products

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

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**These 17 Goals recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.**

The SDGs build on decades of work by countries and the UN, and especially on the Millennium Declaration adopted in September 2000 at UN Headquarters in New York which let to the elaboration of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.

In 2015, the Paris Agreement was signed. A major blueprint came out of this: The Sustainable Development Goals: 17 overarching goals—and 169 targets—that governments are aiming to meet by 2030. Significant progress has been made in terms of poverty, health and inequality, but there's still a way to go. This is where the circular economy comes in: by circulating resources multiple times, the circular economy tackles issues of scarcity and allows all to access what they need—without overburdening the earth. If it's implemented in a holistic way—affording attention to social considerations and the fair distribution of resources— it also offers a pathway for achieving the SDGs; and the link between the two is ever-growing. To read more about the link between the SDGs and the circular economy, click [here](https://www.circle-economy.com/blogs/how-the-circular-economy-can-help-us-reach-the-sustainable-development-goals).

It is the Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) which provides substantive support and capacity-building for the SDGs and their related thematic issues. TheDSDG plays a key role in the evaluation of UN systemwide implementation of the 2030 Agenda and in advocacy and outreach activities relating to the SDGs. In order to make the 2030 Agenda a reality, broad ownership of the SDGs must translate into a strong commitment by all stakeholders to implement the global goals. DSDG aims to help facilitate this engagement.
Alongside this, the annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development serves as the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the SDGs.
In addition, the UN Secretary-General presents an annual SDG Progress report, which is developed in cooperation with the UN System, and based on the global indicator framework and data produced by national statistical systems and information collected at the regional level.

To read more information: [https://sdgs.un.org/goals](https://sdgs.un.org/goals)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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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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 電電租提供一個家電共享媒合平台，讓需要家電的人能以使用取代擁有，同時活化家電擁有者的閒置資源。近幾年來家電精品化高價化加持，全球家電市場銷售額持續成長，同時每年家電報廢的數量不斷增加，無形的浪費都是對資源的損耗。媒合家電供需的共享平台電電租提供消費社會一個新生活提案：全民都可以上架自己家中的閒置家電到平台上出租共享給需要的人。電電租提倡「少用的家電以租代買，常用的家電試用後買。」對於需要的人能先用小錢體驗家電，能解決暫時或試用需求，以免買錯浪費，減少衝動消費。對出租方而言，不僅能活化閒置家電資源，延長家電壽命，還能創造斜槓收入。平台還允許雙方留下使用體驗與心得，形成活躍的家電共享社群，進一步推廣使用權、共享的觀念。女力推動社會影響力此案也體現了媽媽創業，發揮女性影響力。同時透過推動家電出租共享生活服務，落實社區資源共享行動。效益使用電電租服務後降低能該單位的成本、減少不必要的空間囤積、及增加經濟價值。減少新生產帶來的碳排放。以電鍋租用為例，每租用一次即可減少41.4kg的碳排放。本案例內容由電電租股份有限公司提供審稿編輯：循環台灣基金會審稿日期：2024年9月


Taiwan

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Fengyu Group

<p>Feng Yu United Engineering introduced aluminum alloy system formwork into the construction process, which can improve construction precision and accuracy; the formwork is highly durable and when damaged can be recycled and recast, reducing waste and carbon emissions.</p>

Implementing the Reusable System Formwork for the Construction of Data Centers

Exploring Cross-Industry Circularity by Recycling Waste Fabric into Building Panels

Providing residential and non-residential construction services, such as architectural, engineering, planning, real-estate, contracting, and inspection services

Construction and Real Estate Services

Providing repair services or maintenance services for products or parts

Product maintenance, repair

 Feng Yu United Engineering introduced aluminum alloy system formwork into the construction process, which can improve construction precision and accuracy; the formwork is highly durable and when damaged can be recycled and recast, reducing waste and carbon emissions.In the construction process, wooden formwork needs to be replaced after about 6 times. Wooden formwork that has cement on it is not easy to recycle and is usually sent to the incinerator. In addition, traditional wooden formwork requires additional stone work and finishing after removing the formwork to account for imprecisions in the structure, which further increases carbon emissions. Feng Yu, breaking away from traditional practices, adopted an aluminum alloy system formwork construction method, which helps to reduce waste and conserve materials.Materials RecyclingThe aluminum alloy system formwork is very durable and can be used more than 100 times. After finishing the project, about 70% of the aluminum alloy system formwork can be transferred to the next project. If the formwork reaches the limit of durability, it can be recycled and recast into aluminum ingots, which can be extracted at an aluminum extrusion factory and processed into a new aluminum alloy formwork.Making Construction Precise to Help Conserve MaterialsThe aluminum alloy system formwork has high strength, and it has precision after assembly on the order of millimeters. The concrete surface remains smooth after removal of the formwork, and horizontal and vertical errors can be kept within 5mm. It only needs to be finished with a thin skim coat, reducing waste generated by masonry work.System formwork is modularized and usually incremented at 5cm. The corresponding structural dimensions are also incremented at 5cm as much as possible, making the system formwork more easily reused while reducing the need for many scattered sizes for templates.BenefitsLooking at the NCHC Cloud Data Center that used aluminum alloy system formwork as an example [1],Reducing about 15 tons of wood formwork waste and cement materials,Reducing carbon emissions by approximately 63.3%.[1] The NCHC Cloud Data Center features a ceiling height of 5.7 metersand consists of 5 floors. The total area of the wooden formwork to be replaced is 12,189 square meters.


<p>Feng Yu United Engineering introduced aluminum alloy system formwork into the construction process, which can improve construction precision and accuracy; the formwork is highly durable and when damaged can be recycled and recast, reducing waste and carbon emissions. </p>