Policy case

Impact on increased knowledge and understanding as a result of the case study

Increase Awareness

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

Operating networks and software that enable the exchange and broadcasting of information, such as entertainment and internet software, television, cable, satellite or radio broadcasting systems, and cellular, wireless and/or fixed-line telecommunications services

Software and Communications

Use digital, online platforms and technologies that provide insights to track and optimise resource use, strengthen connections between supply chain actors, and enable the implementation of circular models



Incorporate digital technology

Engage with the government on circular policies and programmes

Government collaboration

Employ online platforms to connect and improve information sharing between stakeholders

Digital platforms

Integrating circular economy thinking into employee evaluations that are tied to professional compensation

Financial incentives tied to circular economy

Developing or utilising online platforms to enable circular economy opportunities through information, product or service offering

Online platforms

Implement innovation programmes

Impacts

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Industries

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

Policies

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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

  E-waste - PXFUEL   CAIRO – 14 March 2020: Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad said that the expansion in the use of solar panels to generate electricity will result in increased e-waste, which requires a speed response to challenges facing the sustainable management of this waste. The minister added that appropriate solutions in cooperation with stakeholders and business partners are needed. She explained that the ministry has started developing legislation to convert the informal sector working in e-waste management into an official sector in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) through the project for the safe disposal of electronic waste. Minister Fouad added that a total of seven factors have obtained necessary approvals to safely recycle electronic waste. She said that efforts are underway to implement E-Tadweer application, which enables citizens to get rid of their e-waste and gain incentives in the form of discount vouchers that can be used in purchasing electrical appliances. This comes in coincidence with the government’s announced strategy to safely get rid of electronic waste and agriculture leftovers, simultaneously while launching its new solid waste collection system in different governorates. The Ministry of Environment sets out the strategy in coordination with a number of concerned ministries. Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad stated that the ministry is working to solve the problem of different types of waste in parallel. She said that the ministry is coordinating with the Ministry of Telecommunications on a strategy to safely get rid of the electronic waste, which will be announced within two months. As per the new system, citizens will not dispose any old computers, mobile phones or I pads in the trash cans. “The ministry is keen on launching awareness campaigns to raise public awareness, and provide them with alternatives,” she said, adding that the ministry is coordinating with the Ministry of Health to manage medical waste, where new technologies will substitute burning the waste. The Egyptian Ministry of Environment previously announced that it will start applying the government’s plan to close the unsafe landfills in Cairo and Giza and change them into facilities of public services. Late January 2020, Minister of Local Development Mahmoud Sharawy confirmed in the Parliament’s plenary session that the ministry allocated LE 12 billion [more than US$ 761 million] to implement a new garbage system. He asserted that the ministry eliminated more than 26 landfills nationwide. In June 2019, six cities in the Red Sea governorate, southeast Egypt, started to apply measures to limit the use of plastic, namely Hurghada, Safaga, Marsa Alam, Qoseir, RasGhareb and Shalateen.

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Egypt

United Nations Development Programme

Egyptian Ministry of Environment

Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology 

<p>Egypt's Capital is facing a waste management problem over the past years. In partnership with the United Nations Development Program, the informal sector working in the waste collection is integrated into the formal economy to strengthen the waste management sector. Another strategy to boost the correct disposal of waste is the introduction of a recycling app to encourage Cairo's citizens to swap waste for consumer products.</p>