Find Inspiration
Dig into a great amount of inspiring, real-life examples from cities worldwide and their pursuit for a circular economy. Check out interesting actions about the circular economy in cities in the collections on the two links below.
Those collections provide you, an urban change maker, with five complementary strategies and directions and successful circularity projects you can use to start working towards your CircularCityChallenge project.
Those strategies are:
REGENERATE
Promote systems that support natural ecosystems to thrive.
RETHINK
Redesign systems to lay the foundation for circular activities.
RECOVER
Eliminate waste and reintroduce resources into the production process.
REDUCE
Do better with less material, water, energy, and waste production.
REUSE
Extend and intensify the use of products, spaces and infrastructure.
- Food systems
- Built environment
- Consumer goods
- Energy Systems
- Mobility Systems
- Water Systems
The Circular City Actions Framework platform was developed in collaboration with ICLEI, Metabolic and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation with support from the MAVA Foundation.
ICLEI Circulars is managed by the Circular Development Team at the World Secretariat (Bonn) in close collaboration with the ICLEI Regional Offices around the world.
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a global network of more than 2,500 local and regional governments committed to sustainable urban development.