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This collection comes from the <a href="https://www.circle-economy.com/circular-jobs-initiative/" target="_blank">Circular Jobs Initiative</a>, an initiative of Circle Economy.

The workforce is an essential lever for transforming our economy from linear to circular. The Circular Jobs Initiative aims to maximise the employment opportunities offered by the circular economy. It provides practical support and insights to businesses and governments that want to adopt circular strategies that have a positive social impact.The Circular Jobs Initiative works through three focus areas: 

- Upskilling the workforce

- Quality of work

- Inclusive job opportunities 

CJI has defined circular jobs as any occupation that directly involves or indirectly supports one of the strategies of the circular economy. It distinguishes between three types of circular jobs: core, enabling and indirectly circular jobs.

**Core circular jobs** are all jobs that ensure the closure of raw material cycles, including jobs in repair, renewable energy, waste and resource management. 

**‍Enabling circular jobs** are jobs that remove barriers for and enable the acceleration and upscaling of core circular activities, including jobs that arise in leasing, education, design and digital technology. 

**Indirectly circular jobs** are jobs that occur in other sectors that do not play a direct role in furthering the transition to the circular economy but can still adopt circular strategies. They include jobs that provide services to core circular strategies, including jobs in information services, logistics and the public sector.

The Knowledge Hub Collection includes examples of circular jobs, publications, reports, case studies and policies different organisations, governments and businesses are already using to advocate for a person-centred circular economy. 

Visit the <a href="https://www.circle-economy.com/circular-jobs-initiative/" target="_blank">Circular Jobs Initiative</a>

Visit the <a href="http://jobsmonitor.circle-economy.com/" target="_blank">Circular Jobs Monitor</a>

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Circular Jobs Initiative

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Business case

Impact on the quantity or quality of jobs, and shifts in the labour market

Jobs

Impact on the health and happiness of human populations

Well-being

Contribution to social parity, or impact on social disparity

Equality

Direct and indirect effects that increase revenues or the potential for new revenues, for example from new products, customer segments, partnerships or business models

Revenue Potential

Efficiency gains on operations or transactions either through cultural or technological shifts

Productivity

Reduced use of virgin materials and/or an increase of the use of secondary and bio-based materials

Reduce Material Consumption (SDG12)

Minimise waste through diversion: Instead of sending waste to landfill, it is redirected into other industrial processes for handling, treatment, recycling, recovery, or reuse in various forms. 

Minimise waste through design: At the outset of a process of project, plan and design such that there is zero waste or minimal waste during production, use, and at end of life. 

Minimise Waste (SDG12)

Producing and providing business and consumer goods and services

Goods and Services

Societal Services

Providing repair services or maintenance services for products or parts

Product maintenance, repair

Providing upgrade programmes or upgrade services for products or parts of products

Product upgrade

Activities to clean, decorate, and restore products back to working condition for original or new purposes

Refurbishment, remanufacturing, renovation

Skilling and re-skilling of the workforce through the integration of circularity into education and training programmes and support from government to enable access to these programmes for everyone.

Upskilling the workforce

An inclusive labour market that provides opportunities for people in precarious work, that are distant from or at risk of being phased out of the labour market, as well as workers across skill levels, regardless of their location.

Inclusive job opportunities

Impacts

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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

If managed well, the transition to the circular economy will have multiple benefits for the labour market, including the opening up of job opportunities, raising job standards and reducing inequalities through a global redistribution of value. But a positive transition to circularity for work and workers must be underpinned by three pillars: upskilling the workforce, quality of work and inclusive job opportunities. Find out more and explore cases that illustrate these pillars below.

Circular Jobs Initiative Pillars

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A positive transition to circularity for work and workers must be underpinned by three core pillars.

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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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Written by Esther Goodwin Brown, Analyst at Circle Economy's Circular Jobs InitiativeJobs are an important vehicle for social inclusion. They help us to feel valued and have a sense of purpose. They improve our quality of life and are a way of participating in society. They provide us with the resources we need to support and spend time with our family and friends.In the current linear — take-make-waste — economy, financial drives often come before social protection and participation. Too often this means that people find it hard to access work or find a job that meets their needs. An inclusive labour market should provide decent work opportunities for all people no matter their age, ethnicity, gender, educational level or geographic location.The circular economy changes the world of workThe transition to the circular economy will be labour intensive, especially in the coming 10 to 20 years, requiring more people to drive its principles of reuse, repair, refurbish, recover and recycle, than in the linear economy where resources are typically wasted and incinerated. The circular economy requires people to work together across companies and sectors, using skills such as empathy, craftsmanship and ingenuity. Because of this, the circular economy has the potential to create new types of jobs and tasks, opening up opportunities for people currently distant from the labour market. At the same time, we need to be mindful of the wide spectrum of workers often deeply embedded in the circular economy.So, what role could the circular economy play in rebalancing power and how are social enterprises already creating more inclusive work opportunities in the circular economy?Social enterprises leading the wayWhile commitments towards circularity are being made by global and national actors, the local social economy will be key to translating these commitments into action and helping to make sure the circular economy serves everyone. Here are a few examples of social enterprises that already are helping to create more inclusive work opportunities for people in the circular economy and what we can learn from them.Putting a face to circular jobs‍In Santiago, Chile, the resource management company Triciclos has set up micro-entrepreneurships in their resource management facilities. Here, informal waste pickers are given a place to work that not only shelters them from the sun and rain, but also provides them with a place to work with more dignity. At these facilities, local residents come to drop off their waste directly with the person handling it — giving a face to the informal waste pickers who’s services they rely on. These simple interactions give the informal workers who are usually hidden and the local people that use their services a greater sense of how valued this work is in the community. This project demonstrates the power of face-to-face interactions for promoting the social value of circular jobs that many of us take for granted and the need to support informal workers that may otherwise remain anonymised to have greater visibility both in our communities and policies.‍TriCiclos‍Collaborating for business and social value‍In Lisbon, Portugal, the NGO Cais runs CAIS RECICLA, with beverage company Super BOCK. Through these micro-businesses, people that have experienced homelessness, drug and alcohol problems or mental health issues create new eco-design products from materials that have been discarded as waste by different companies. The products are then sold commercially. Collaborations like this, between the social economy and private companies, are not only a great way of helping companies to convert their waste into new products; they also create meaningful work opportunities for people who often face stigma when applying for jobs, boosting their skills, confidence and work experience.CAIS Recicla‍Segregating tasks for inclusive jobs‍In Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Robedrijf connects people with a distance from the labour market to employers through the outsourced services they offer in the assembly, packaging and repair of products. Once commissioned by a local company, these services are then delivered by people working in Robedrijf’s sheltered workshop who have physical, mental or psychological difficulties. This means people who might find traditional job roles challenging are given the opportunity to learn circular skills like disassembly and repair, while working in a supportive environment. Robedrijf splits up workstreams into packages of tasks, so that there are tasks suited to people with different levels of abilities. By breaking up tasks, Robedrijf can ensure that the services they deliver to their customers are high quality as well as ensuring there are good quality, tailored jobs available for people that otherwise face barriers to work.Robedrijf‍Beyond local: putting inclusion on national and global agendasThe European Green Deal promises that no one will be left behind, by allocating resources to workers in declining and shifting sectors and providing opportunities in the circular economy, both within and outside of Europe. But as well as supporting workers in carbon-intensive sectors, people that are currently distant from the labour market, unregulated and informal workers also need to be prioritised in negotiations.In Latin America and the Caribbean, 25–50% of waste is recycled by informal waste pickers, and 44% of organisations in the Dutch construction sector rely on self-employed workers. Both sets of these workers are crucial to the circular economy but do not have the same protections as formal or permanent workers. Although unregulated or informal sectors provide routes into work for people that might otherwise struggle to find work, flexible and unregulated work is associated with more vulnerable livelihoods. The quality of the jobs the circular economy creates therefore needs to be monitored.As policy-makers meet in the coming months to discuss how the Green Deal will be operationalised, the role of the social economy in creating good quality and inclusive work opportunities must be recognised. Partnerships between social economy and sectors where there will be high demand for labour, particularly in earlier stages of the transition, need to be encouraged. By supporting labour intensive areas of the circular economy to work in partnership with the social economy, the European Green Deal will be in a better position to support workers and communities that face the biggest challenges in times of change, helping to ensure that no one is left behind.The inclusivity of the labour market in the circular economy is a key focus area of Circle Economy’s Circular Jobs Initiative. The Circular Jobs Initiative is being launched in March, with kick-off events across Amsterdam, New York City and Brussels. Find out more here.‍

  Heeft u vragen? Neem dan contact op met uw vaste contactpersoon of via het telefoonnummer van receptie Zuidlaardermeer: 010 - 267 78 00.   Robedrijf is het sociale werkbedrijf van de gemeente Rotterdam. Wij begeleiden mensen met een afstand tot de arbeidsmarkt naar werk. Liefst bij ‘gewone’ werkgevers maar als dat nodig is op een beschutte (beschermde) werkplek. Werkgevers en opdrachtgevers zijn daarbij onmisbare partners. Of u nu een eenmanszaak of een grote onderneming bent. Robedrijf heeft jarenlange ervaring in het verwerken van eenvoudige tot meer complexe opdrachten. Een eenmalige klus of terugkerende werkzaamheden, Robedrijf kan het voor u doen. Op onze eigen locatie of via detachering van medewerkers bij u op de werkvloer.   Samenwerken met Robedrijf betekent niet alleen het uitbesteden van productie of het inhuren van vakmanschap. Mensen die door welke oorzaak dan ook (nog) niet meedoen op de arbeidsmarkt, krijgen de kans zich te ontwikkelen. Samen met u geven wij graag invulling aan maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen binnen uw onderneming. Robedrijf is een bijzonder normaal bedrijf: sterk in maatwerk richting medewerker en opdrachtgever!   Foto: gemeente Rotterdam
Meewerken in de productie.
  Werk uitbesteden aan Robedrijf betekent naast sociaal ondernemen dat u zich op uw core business kan richten. Wij bieden maatwerk, flexibiliteit en gemotiveerde medewerkers. Of het nu gaat om postverwerking, assemblage of verpakken.  Robedrijf  is van veel markten thuis. Robedrijf kan uw partner zijn. Door werk voor u uit te voeren of medewerkers bij u te plaatsen via het WerkgeversServicepunt Rijnmond.   Werk uitbesteden
 
Robedrijf is uw partner voor de meest uiteenlopende werkzaamheden. Van eenvoudig inpakwerk tot hoogwaardig productiewerk. Wij zijn hierin flexibel en denken in oplossingen. Staat het soort werk dat u wilt uitbesteden of waar u mensen voor wilt inhuren er niet bij? Neem dan gerust contact met ons op. Bel 010 - 267 78 00 of stuur een e-mail naar meerweten@robedrijf.nl  
 Assemblage Diverse soorten eenvoudig assemblagewerk, handmatig of machinaal, zowel serieproducties als bulkopdrachten. Bijvoorbeeld: metaalassemblage, assembleren van accessoires voor caravanramen en -deuren. Verpakken Allerlei verpakkingswerkzaamheden, zowel handmatig als machinaal. Bijvoorbeeld: samenstellen van actieverpakkingen, (her)verpakken van bulkartikelen, ompakken van grote eenheden, opzetten en/of afvullen van (toonbank) displays. Textiel / Confectiewerkzaamheden Van het samenstellen van stofsample sets tot confectiewerkzaamheden aan bedrijfskleding. Uitgevoerd met professionele machines. Elektro Uiteenlopend (eenvoudig) elektrowerk. Bijvoorbeeld: het maken van elektrische onderdelen zoals printplaatjes, het maken van lampen, het monteren van stekkers. Mailings / Documentverwerking Complete verzorging van mailings en veelzijdige documentverwerking. Van vouwen, insteken en verzendklaar maken tot scannen, archieven digitaliseren en metadateren. Sterk in grote oplagen. Handmatig of machinaal.   Inhuren personeel
 
Bent u op zoek naar personeel bij u op de werkvloer? En biedt u als werkgever graag kansen aan mensen met een arbeidsbeperking? Het Robedrijf kan u via detachering, in een groep of individueel, aan gekwalificeerde medewerkers helpen voor uiteenlopende werkzaamheden.  Informeer naar de mogelijkheden bij het WerkgeversServicepunt Rijnmond (WSPR). Het WSPR brengt bedrijven en gemotiveerd personeel bij elkaar. Bel 010 - 700 89 89 of kijk op wsprijnmond.nl.   Met de invoering van de Participatiewet in 2015 is de Rotterdamse sociale werkvoorziening meer gericht op de reguliere arbeidsmarkt. Iedereen die kan, wordt gestimuleerd om aan de slag te gaan in een ‘gewone’ werkomgeving.  
 Meer over de Participatiewet 
  Voor mensen met een grote afstand tot de arbeidsmarkt en/of arbeidsbeperking biedt Robedrijf een werk-leeromgeving en zoekt daarbij actief de samenwerking met het bedrijfsleven. Samen kijken we wat de mogelijkheden zijn: detachering op individuele basis of in groepsverband of een vorm van begeleid werken. Voor mensen die meer begeleiding nodig hebben dan van een reguliere werkgever verwacht wordt, kan Robedrijf een beschutte (beschermde) werkplek inrichten. Voor wie beschut werk niet geschikt is, zijn er mogelijkheden voor arbeidsmatige dagbesteding.   Leren door te doen
 
Robedrijf investeert in het ontwikkelen van medewerkers in hun arbeidsproces. Omdat mensen ‘leren door te doen’ zijn werkopdrachten op de werkplek dé inspiratiebron voor arbeidsontwikkeling.  Robedrijf werkt daarom met de Werkstap methode: stap voor stap groeien deelnemers in hun ontwikkeling. Het streven is deelnemers zo te ontwikkelen dat zij aan het werk kunnen bij een 'gewone' werkgever.   Werkstap is een belangrijk hulpmiddel in de begeleiding van mensen (op weg) naar werk. Binnen deze flexibele  methode met werkplekopdrachten leren deelnemers zich zelfstandig ontwikkelen, stap voor stap. De werkopdrachten sluiten aan bij de persoonlijke situatie of beroepspraktijk. Deelnemers worden bijgestaan door een trajectbegeleider. Door toepassing van de Werkstap methode groeien deelnemers naar de volgende stap in hun arbeidsontwikkeling.  Beschut werk
 
Mensen met een arbeidsbeperking (mensen met een lichamelijke, verstandelijke of psychische beperking) zijn vaak aangewezen op een beschutte (beschermde) werkplek. Robedrijf  heeft de kennis en ervaring in huis om mensen met een arbeidsbeperking zo te begeleiden dat ze productief en zinvol werk leveren. Deze medewerkers van Robedrijf krijgen via de Werkstap methode de gelegenheid zich te ontwikkelen.  (Arbeidsmatige) dagbesteding
 
Voor wie beschut werk niet geschikt is, zijn er mogelijkheden voor arbeidsmatige dagbesteding. Arbeidsmatige dagbesteding is gericht op het structureren van de dag, op praktische ondersteuning en op het oefenen van vaardigheden voor het bevorderen van de zelfredzaamheid. Een zingevend dagprogramma met begeleiding in een veilige omgeving. Het verschil met beschut werk is dat bij arbeidsmatige dagbesteding geen sprake is van een arbeidsrelatie met de gemeente en een dienstbetrekking met alles wat daarbij hoort.   Wilt u graag kennis maken met Robedrijf? Heeft u een vraag? Wilt u een offerte aanvragen? Neem dan gerust contact met ons op. Bel hiervoor naar 010 - 267 78 00 Robedrijf Zuidlaardermeer 10 3068 KL  Rotterdam 

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Robedrijf

<p>In Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Robedrijf connects people with a distance from the labour market to employers through the outsourced services they offer in the assembly, packaging and repair of products. Once commissioned by a local company, these services are then delivered by people working in Robedrijf's sheltered workshop who have physical, mental or psychological difficulties. This means people who might find traditional job roles challenging are given the opportunity to learn circular skills like disassembly and repair, while working in a supportive environment.</p>