ALLVIEW-Identification-of-Regional-National-policies-on-Circular-Economy-in-CSR-for-the-Wood-and-Furniture-sector-Full-report_ENG-1_compressed.pdf

Policy case

Work together throughout the supply chain, internally within organisations and with the public sector and communities to increase transparency and create joint value

Team up to create joint value

Engaging in discussions with government bodies and policymakers to push for regulations that support the circular economy

Advocacy for circular economy policy

Participating in government programmes that support and advance the circular economy

Government programmes

Provide guidance or professional training to educate employees to use circular economy principles

Training on the circular economy

Research and facilitate new technological developments to aid the transition to a circular economy.

Research and Development

 Develop research, structure knowledge, encourage innovation networks and disseminate findings with integrity


Strengthen and advance knowledge

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 objective of this document is to analyse the status of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Furniture and Wood sectors. In this document, the partner consortium of the project “ALLVIEW - Alliance of Centres of Vocational Excellence in the Furniture and Wood sector”, analysed some legislative tools that regulate CSR in the various European countries. The research has been carried out taking into consideration the three pillars on which CSR is based. These three pillars are: • Sustainability. • Inclusivity. • Accessibility. Through this research the consortium wants to analyse the European, National and Regional policies related to the pillars mentioned above in order to identify the best practices and developing guidelines regarding CSR to spread within the furniture and wood sector. This document is the basis for future discussions on the potential impact of CSR in: • Supporting a sustainable management of the resources, increasing the use of the renewables. • Connecting the enterprises to the idea of circular economy. • Supporting the employability of specific target group to the addressed enterprises, linked with the national and European policies. • Supporting the enterprises capacity to hire and involve people with lower opportunity, developing win-win strategies. • Creating centres of vocational excellence, able to train people with a different starting position (or profile or competencies or …). • Identifying the weak points in regional and national policies about inclusion both in the field of job offers and in the environment of VET. • Identifying the special needs that are not related to the (potential) job-tasks and develop networks for specific target groups through the links with the no-profit sector. This report is a first part of a more elaborated full report, which consist of 3 specific reports which have CSR as guiding thread. The first concerns the CSR in relation to waste prevention and the circular economy, the other two documents are based on the themes of migrants and refugees and on the inclusion of people with disabilities in labour market and in training and education. This complete report is based upon a structure composed of the following sections: • A general overview on CSR. • Policies on resource Circular Economy and waste prevention. • Policies on inclusion of migrants and refugees to the labour market and VET system. • Policies on the accessibility of people with special needs in: 	o Education (VET) system. 	o Labour Market. o Work environment. 	o Work tasks. • Conclusion. Thanks to this research the partner consortium wants to enhance the awareness regarding the CSR at European level considering not only the aspects regarding sustainable environmental topics but also regarding inclusivity and accessibility, addressed to a wider range of people with fewer opportunities, such as migrants, disabled people and people with social disadvantages in general.