Business case

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

Jobs

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 textile and leather products and processing them into apparel and accessories

Fashion and Textiles

Reuse, repurpose, and recycle waste streams within other industries

Valorise waste streams - open loop

Initiatives with disadvantaged communities, minorities, people distanced from the labour market

Give-back programmes

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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The government through the Minister of Water and Environment, has asked plastic manufacturing companies to find alternative ways to manage their waste and to stop disposing it on the environment.Mr Sam Cheptoris, the Minister for Water and Environment at the launch of the five-year Nature Recovery Plan, said they would use the Nema Act 2019 to make sure they adhere to it. This warning was carried in the Daily Monitor of Monday.This warning should have been put into action much earlier. Plastic waste is very dangerous to the environment.In Uganda, the problem increases each passing day. It is not difficult to see how bad the situation is, especially on rainy days when the flowing water dredges up waste, including plastic water bottles, polythene bags and other kinds.The Nakivubo Channel also collects a lot of this waste, and pictures as well as videos of all the plastic rubbish that piles on its sides or at narrow points, have been shared variously on different platforms.In 2018, Parliament passed the National Environment Bill, 2017 banning polythene bags below 30 microns following a recommendation from the Committee on Natural Resources. 
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The ban was enforced then and those who used those kinds of polythene bags to package goods for their customers had to think afresh.This saw the rise of cloth and paper bags which are easy to recycle or get rid of without as much damage to the environment.It was hard to buy or even see any polythene bag of that type for weeks after that. However, the kaveeras, as they are locally, known are now back.As Mr David Duli, the country director of the World Wide Fund, said at the Nature Recovery Plan event, there is a need for a radical action to combat the damage these plastics wreak on water sources, land and marine life. One of the ways is enforcing already existing laws that ban the use of certain plastics. It has worked before and a sustained effort can see it work very well.In addition to that recycling of plastics should be encouraged and supported. Many groups and organisations, big and small, use used plastic materials to make crafts, jewellery and in some cases even shoes. A good number of people make a living from this.Support in the form of marketing these initiatives can see the number of plastics which are thrown away, reduced.The waste can be tackled. It must be tackled if we are to keep our environment safe. 

Uganda

KIWOI 

<p>Kinawataka Women Initiatives&nbsp;(KIWOI) in Uganda recycles used straws into crafts such as bags, mats, and jewelry to reduce the amount of discarded plastic waste. The organization focuses on working with marginalized women and youth to produce these products. To date, the organization has trained over 7,940 women &amp; 6,000 youth across Uganda to create these crafts and products, helping these people to gain more income opportunities along with recycling large amounts of plastic that otherwise would harm the region's environment.</p>