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This collection is part of Footprints Africa's work to build a comprehensive database of circular economy initiatives in Africa. 

This is a result of the collaboration with the <a href="https://www.acen.africa" target="_blank">African Circular Economy Network (ACEN)</a>, as part of the programme to support the circular economy transition in Africa. Footprints Africa's vision is that businesses can be a force for good at scale. Their mission is to advance sustainable, scalable and inclusive approaches to development of local African economies. Footprints Africa supports SMEs to adopt future-friendly practices, such as those inspired by the circular economy, to address the challenges of growth and create jobs. 

This open-source dataset features well over 500 cases and 200 examples of policies and laws and intent to collect inspiring examples of initiatives from across Africa, in order to inform the global dialogue, which is largely focused on the European and American context. 

To learn more about Africa's initiatives and content to accelerate the transition to a circular economy, visit https://www.footprintsafrica.co/

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Business case

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)

Collecting waste from households and businesses by means of refuse bins, wheeled bins, containers, etc., and providing treatment, incineration, materials recovery and reclamation, and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste

Waste Management

Ensure renewable, reusable, non-toxic resources are utilised as materials and energy in an efficient way

Prioritise regenerative resources

While resources are in-use, maintain, repair and upgrade them to maximise their lifetime and give them a second life through take back strategies when applicable

Stretch the lifetime

Utilise waste streams as a source of secondary resources and recover waste for reuse and recycling

Use waste as a resource

Consider opportunities to create greater value and align incentives that build on the interaction between products and services

Rethink the business model

Regenerate strategies phase out hazardous or toxic materials and processes and substitute them with regenerative biomass resources. A circular economy aims to mimic natural cycles—by shifting to more regenerative farming practices, for example—while also maximising the share of circular biomass that enters the economy. Regeneration can happen both at the systems level (by designing regenerative processes) as well as at the product level (by switching synthetic to organic fertilisers, for example).

Regenerate

Cycle strategies aim to cycle and reuse materials at their highest value: they maximise the volume of secondary materials re-entering the economy, ultimately minimising the need for virgin material inputs and therefore also narrowing flows. Of course, virgin materials will always be needed to a degree: all materials degrade and can’t be cycled infinitely, use energy, and require blending with virgin materials to maintain strength and functionality.

Cycle

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

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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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We collect your food waste and give you back  enriched vermicompost to grow fresh food!How Does It Work?We supply you with a special organic binPlace your organic bin at the curb on collection dayOur earthworms have dinnerYou receive back 2kg of vermicompost every monthSee our Recycling Service!What Customers SayWe were impressed and excited when we first heard about Himkaar’s initiative and were one of the first to sign up for his composting services. The fees are minimal and so far 6 months into the weekly collection we are delighted. The system is simple and runs seamlessly. Each month we have received a box of vermicompost in which has been planted a small herb (different each time) for potting or placing in the garden. It’s such a good feeling to know we’re no longer wasting our organic waste and making a contribution to a better world!If you can't finish your food, our worms will!

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Footprints Africa supports SMEs to adopt future-friendly practices, address the challenges of growth and create jobs, using supply chains as a tool for development. 

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The vision of the African Circular Economy Network (ACEN) is to build a restorative African economy that generates well-being and prosperity inclusive of all its people through new forms of economic production and consumption which maintain and regenerate its environmental resources.

African Circular Economy Network

The Compost Kitchen collects and recycles food waste into vermicompost with the help of earthworms.

The Compost Kitchen

The Compost Kitchen collects food waste from its subscriber households on a weekly basis. They then heat treat it and, with the help of earthworms, recycle the waste into vermicompost. They then give the vermicompost back to the customer for free in a craft paper bag, so they can use it in their vegetable garden to grow food again. Their customers, who have no access to municipal recycling or composting services, pay 190 rand per month for this service.

The Compost Kitchen - Organic waste recycling

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Extracting resources and processing them to produce materials for use bysociety

Materials and Fuels

**End poverty in all its forms and everywhere**

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Since 2015, global poverty reduction was already slowing down and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic reversed three decades of steady progress with the number of people living in extreme poverty increasing for the first time in a generation. Recovery from the pandemic has been slow and uneven as the world is presently facing multiple geopolitical, socioeconomic, and climatic risks. 
Given current trends, 575 million people (nearly 7% of the world’s population) will still be living in extreme poverty in 2030 compared to 800 million in 2015 (or 10.8%). 
A surge in action and investment to enhance job opportunities and extend social services to the most excluded is crucial to delivering on the central commitment to ending poverty.
The 2030 Agenda acknowledges that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.


Priority actions on poverty eradication include:
- improving access to sustainable livelihoods, entrepreneurial opportunities, and productive resources;
- providing universal access to basic social services;
- progressively developing social protection systems to support those who cannot support themselves;
- empowering people living in poverty and their organizations;
- addressing the disproportionate impact of poverty on women;
- working with interested donors and recipients to allocate increased shares of ODA to poverty eradication; and
- intensifying international cooperation for poverty eradication.

 For more information and documents on this topic, please visit [this link](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/povertyeradication)

Sources: [https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal1](https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal1)
[https://sdgs.un.org/topics/poverty-eradication](https://sdgs.un.org/topics/poverty-eradication)

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End poverty in all its forms and everywhere

Narrow strategies reduce material and energy use. Currently, material use is highly inefficient and ineffective; we can deliver similar social outcomes by using much less and phasing out fossil fuels, for example. This doesn’t mean being worse off, but rather focusing on using materials efficiently: think in terms of riding a bike instead of driving a car, eating less meat, and living in a space that suits your needs. Using less is a core tenet of the circular economy—yet currently, the threshold for sustainable consumption, 8 tonnes per person, is being surpassed by 1.5 times. 

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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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ゼロ砂糖飲料市場：日本における成長の背景と将来展望<a href="https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/jp/%E3%82%BC%E3%83%AD%E7%A0%82%E7%B3%96%E9%A3%B2%E6%96%99%E5%B8%82%E5%A0%B4-113607" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">世界的な健康志向の高まりを背景</a>に、ゼロ砂糖飲料（シュガーフリー飲料・無糖飲料）市場は近年急速な成長を遂げています。世界のゼロ砂糖飲料市場は2024年時点で約653億米ドル規模とされ、2032年までに年平均成長率（CAGR）11.63％で拡大し、最終的には1,553.8億米ドルへ到達すると予測されています。特にアジア太平洋地域の成長が顕著で、2024年の地域シェアは約38％を占め、市場拡大の中心地として注目されています。日本市場の動向と成長ドライバー日本においても健康意識の高まりが強く、ゼロ砂糖飲料への需要は年々高まっています。糖質制限食の普及や、肥満・生活習慣病への対策として砂糖を控える人が増えていることが背景にあります。若年層から中高年層まで幅広い層がゼロ砂糖飲料を選ぶようになり、炭酸飲料、スポーツドリンク、RTD（飲料準備済み）茶、ゼロシュガーコーヒーなど、多様なカテゴリでラインアップが拡大しています。市場では、既存の飲料メーカーがゼロ糖バリエーションを増やす動きが加速しています。また、天然甘味料や植物由来成分を使った“クリーンラベル”製品の人気が高まり、無糖でありながら風味や満足感を重視した商品開発が進んでいます。特に、ハーブエキスやフルーツエッセンスを用いたプレミアム飲料や、健康機能性を訴求する製品が消費者の支持を集めています。<img src="https://prajaavani.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/zero-sugar-beverrage-market-300x145.png">無料サンプルをダウンロード:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/jp/%E5%95%8F%E3%81%84%E5%90%88%E3%82%8F%E3%81%9B/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88-%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%AB-pdf/%E3%82%BC%E3%83%AD%E7%A0%82%E7%B3%96%E9%A3%B2%E6%96%99%E5%B8%82%E5%A0%B4-113607" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/jp/%E5%95%8F%E3%81%84%E5%90%88%E3%82%8F%E3%81%9B/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88-%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%AB-pdf/%E3%82%BC%E3%83%AD%E7%A0%82%E7%B3%96%E9%A3%B2%E6%96%99%E5%B8%82%E5%A0%B4-113607</a>市場セグメント分析● 製品タイプ別ゼロ砂糖飲料は「ノンアルコール飲料」と「アルコール飲料」に分類されます。現状ではノンアルコール飲料が市場をリードしており、炭酸飲料、果汁飲料、ノンシュガー紅茶・コーヒーなどの需要が高まっています。また、健康志向の高まりを受けて、ゼロ砂糖スムージーやプロテイン飲料などの機能性飲料も成長が期待されています。アルコール飲料においても、ゼロ糖ハードセルツァーやゼロ糖RTDカクテルが伸びており、飲酒習慣を持つ成人層の間でも糖質オフへの意識が強まっています。● 包装形態別ボトル（PET・ガラス）が依然として主流で、持ち運びやすさから最も高い市場シェアを占めています。一方、缶（アルミ）が予測期間中に最も高い成長率を見せるとされ、環境配慮やリサイクル性の高さが選ばれる理由となっています。● 流通チャネル別スーパーマーケットやハイパーマーケットが主要チャネルであり、消費者が多様なゼロ糖飲料を直接比較しやすい環境が整っています。また、オンライン販売の需要も急伸しており、ECサイトでのまとめ買いやサブスクリプションサービスの普及が、ゼロ砂糖飲料の浸透をさらに後押ししています。市場成長を支える主な要因健康意識の上昇糖尿病予防やダイエット目的で砂糖摂取量を減らしたいニーズが増加。製品の多様化とプレミアム化植物由来甘味料や天然成分を配合した高付加価値製品が人気。大手飲料メーカーの参入強化国内外メーカーがゼロ糖ブランドを積極展開し、競争が活発化。技術革新天然甘味料の味質改良や、健康機能性飲料の開発による製品レベルの向上。市場における課題ゼロ砂糖飲料市場が急成長する一方で、いくつかの課題も存在します。規制・表示要件の複雑化甘味料や食品添加物の使用制限、表示基準が国ごとに異なり、製品開発に影響。甘味料への安全性懸念一部の人工甘味料に対する消費者不信があり、ブランドは透明性の高い原材料を求められる。製品品質のバラつき市場の拡大に伴い、低品質の模倣品が出回るリスクも指摘されている。サプライチェーンの変動原材料コストや物流の課題が価格に影響する可能性もある。情報源:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/jp/%E3%82%BC%E3%83%AD%E7%A0%82%E7%B3%96%E9%A3%B2%E6%96%99%E5%B8%82%E5%A0%B4-113607" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/jp/%E3%82%BC%E3%83%AD%E7%A0%82%E7%B3%96%E9%A3%B2%E6%96%99%E5%B8%82%E5%A0%B4-113607</a>日本市場における展望日本のゼロ砂糖飲料市場は、今後大きな成長が期待されています。特に以下の要素が市場拡大のポイントとなります。 天然甘味料を活用した商品開発の強化ブランドの多角化と高付加価値戦略オンラインチャネルの活用拡大規制に対応した安全で信頼性の高い製品づくり消費者の健康志向は今後も続くため、ゼロ砂糖飲料市場は日本の飲料業界における重要カテゴリーとして注目され続けるでしょう。業界の主な動向2025年2月：主要飲料メーカーの一つであるザ・コカ・コーラ・カンパニーは、ファンタブランドで3つの無糖製品を発売した。新製品は「ファンタ ゼロ アップル」「ファンタ ゼロ ラズベリー」、および限定フレーバー「ファンタ トゥッティフルッティ ゼロシュガー」で展開される。2025年2月：新興飲料ブランド「モグモグ」が、2種類の無糖シリーズ「モグモグ ゼロシュガー サマーベリー」「ゼロシュガー トロピカルデライト」を発売。