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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

Producing electronics products for businesses and consumers, including cellular phones, personal computers, printers, servers, electronic computer components and peripherals, TVs, audio equipment, as well as household appliances, such as refrigerators, washing machines, etc.

Electronics and Appliances

Providing products through sharing between consumers, customers, etc.

Peer to peer sharing

**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

Intensifying product use (e.g. via product sharing or multifunctional products).



🏢 Rethink

Replace typical brick and mortar wall with a dry-stacked wall with interlocking bricks will limit the amount of mortar required and ease the deconstruction efforts at the end of service life for the subsequent use.

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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This framework surpasses the famous 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). The nine strategies Refuse, Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Refurbish, Remanufacture, Repurpose, and Recycle and Recover provide a clear and actionable roadmap for a circular transition. 

Strategies at the top of the hierarchy, such as Refuse, Rethink, and Reduce, are the most effective at increasing a construction project's circularity level. These strategies focus on avoiding or minimising resource use and waste from the project's conception.

That is why a clear hierarchy exists where higher-level R strategies are preferred, and lower-level strategies are deemed more linear. 

In the original 9R framework, the last strategy, Recover, is often considered non-circular since it consists of energy recovery from material waste incineration, which is why it was left out of the scope of this case study collection.

They are applied to the built environment sector here as part of the [Realdania ](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.realdania.org/&ved=2ahUKEwiF74KezMyJAxUpUaQEHURhOOEQFnoECBYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0o-XWvSka80KCHtCG6XDS3) project.

🏢 9R Framework

 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。電電租-家電出租共享媒合平台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。需要的人能先用小錢體驗家電，以免買錯浪費，電電租提倡少用的家電以租代買，常用的家電試用後買，解決租用方的暫時或試用需求，減少衝動消費。對出租方而言，不僅活化閒置家電資源，延長家電壽命，還能創造斜槓收入，進一步推廣使用權的觀念並落實社區，有效建立社區家電共享生態圈。透過電電租平台，傳達物資需被充分愛惜與利用的價值，重建人們愛物惜物的簡單生活。      循環策略 共享：運用雲端服務架設全台首創C2C家電共享出租媒合服務平台，跨界面支援手機、電腦瀏覽並提供手機簡訊、E-mail、社群訊息串接及網站內私訊功能，促進線上線下媒合，提供有意願共享家電的出租方上架家電到平台，租客透過線上預約租用家電，即可聯繫出租方(我們稱為電租公/電租婆)，出租方確認租借後，系統即產生客製化租賃雙方電子合約，雙方聯繫確認面交時間地點，面交當天，電租公測試家電功能正常後，租客即直接交付家電租金及押金，租客使用完後歸還電租公，現場確認家電功能正常，電租公即返還租客押金。出租家電資訊頁下方，租賃雙方皆可留下使用體驗與心得，以出租共享家電帶動家電論壇的角色，形成家電聚落。      效益電電租平台至今已五年，這兩年發現許多年輕朋友騎共享機車或是開著共享汽車來租家電，「使用權代替擁有權」的生活型態在各個產業陸續開始發酵。電電租持續在各種管道分享宣傳以租代買的各種型態，推動永續生活風格。此外，每個人家裡都有許多家電，貼近生活的家電出租共享讓大眾運用便利的科技服務實際參與產品服務化過程，每一次使用家電出租共享服務都在實踐循環經濟。不只是個人端，電電租平台模式也引發家電產業從循環經濟的角度來思考新商業模式。經營平台期間受到許多家電品牌商、經銷商、通路商及二手家電商的關注，並討論相互合作的可能性。透過和家電業者的合作，進一步傳遞家電循環設計的重要性，同時鼓勵家電產業走向產品服務化。電電租所產生的效益，分為三個方面：產品服務化增加的經濟價值：電電租平台推動以租代買模式增進循環經濟，閒置家電因出租共享產生多次的使用，進而增加家電的經濟價值。生活服務經濟發酵：電電租家電出租共享平台是人人可參與的模式，電租公透過平台創造租金收益，增加自己的斜槓收入，在現今普遍薪資低迷的狀態下，注入一股活水，創造微經濟模式，人人都可上架家電收租金替自己賺外快。商業租用降低成本：經營電電租後陸續有許多商業租用需求，舉凡公關、廣告、活動、行銷、劇組、企業及學校…等單位，常有數量較多或是暫時租用的需求，使用電電租服務後降低該單位的成本及減少不必要的空間囤積。大眾家中閒置家電透過出租共享延續家電使用壽命，租客在電電租租用家電解決一次性或短暫的需求，減少因衝動購買家電造成的資源浪費。以電鍋一台租用一次為例，每租用一次即可減少41.4kg的碳排，運用產品服務化減少碳排放。媽媽創業，女力世代推展：電電租平台的兩位女性共同創辦人，同時也是媽媽，兩位媽媽開始創建電電租平台過程中，帶領一群媽媽們共同在電電租平台努力，並協助許多全職或兼職媽咪們在生活上或事業上的啟發，發揮女性影響力，近期平台電租公受到電電租引發成立自己的發電機租賃平台，嘉惠許多學生族群。家電出租共享，社區生活服務 : 電電租透過不同類型的社區據點或店家提供家電共享出租的服務，讓社區民眾就近租用家電，同時也促進社區資源共享，落實循環經濟在社區的新面貌。本案例內容由電電租提供審稿編輯：循環台灣基金會審稿日期：2023年10月更新日期：2024年3月

Taiwan

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DDZ Co., Ltd.

<p>DDZ provides a home appliance sharing and matchmaking platform, allowing people who need home appliances to rent them instead of buying them, while maximizing the idle resources of home appliance owners.</p>