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Circular Economy

The circular economy is a $4.5 trillion opportunity. It’s a new way of looking at the relationships between markets, customers and natural resources, leveraging innovative new business models and disruptive technologies to transform the current “take, make, dispose” economic model.

Successful circular initiatives will reduce our dependence on natural resources while creating value for companies and their stakeholders. Companies may also discover that the circular economy helps them to drive bottom-line growth, enhance competitiveness and mitigate risk.

To help businesses become more circular, we provide:

    Information sharing
    Scalable solutions
    Metrics and measurement
    Advocacy and communication

How we are meeting the challenge

We are driving business solutions and initiatives that integrate the circular economy principles of life-cycle thinking and resource optimization. Our projects mobilize companies in their journey towards the circular economy.
Roadmap for reducing Ocean Waste

Ocean protection is at the forefront of the international agenda with the adoption of Sustainable Development Goal 14, where the first target is directed at reducing marine pollution, including plastic marine debris...
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February 2017
Highlights
Practitioner Guide to the Circular Economy

Browse over 70 strategies, 125 circular economy concepts and 300 resources to help you find the tangible actions you can take to implement circularity across your company.
CEO Guide to the Circular Economy

The CEO Guide to the circular economy is a call to action that will help businesses get into the circular mindset. The Guide highlights the opportunities business can take by moving towards a circular economy.
Factor10

It is the global business collaboration delivering innovative, scalable solutions for the circular economy.  It brings companies together to reinvent how business finds, uses and disposes of the materials that make up global trade. 
Marketplace HUB

The Marketplace HUB is a tool designed to foster a sustainable use of resources through accelerating business to business reuse opportunities for secondary materials worldwide.
News and Insights
News
20 Jul 2017
WBCSD releases 8 Business Cases to the Circular Economy - helping business accelerate growth, enhance competitiveness and mitigate risk
Insight
Communications | 29 Jun 2017
Insider Perspective: 2017 Sustainability and Circular Economy Summit, “From Aspiration to Implementation”
Insight
Brendan Edgerton | 26 Jun 2017
Making the circular economy more accessible and more attainable: WBCSD’s Practitioner Guide to the Circular Economy
Next Event
Council Member Meeting 2017
16 - 19 October, 2017,
 Mexico City, Mexico
More Events
Business and Climate summit 2017
31 August - 1 September, 2017
, New Delhi, India
Resources
Publication
20 Jul 2017
8 Business Cases to the Circular Economy
Publication
8 Jun 2017
Reducing Ocean Waste
Publication
5 Jun 2017
Circular economy and environmental priorities for business
Impact on Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Materials cluster aspires to create a planet without any waste in 2050. Our cluster work program addresses Sustainable Development Goal 12—Responsible Consumption and Production and supports 12 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Contacts
Andrea Brown
Director, Circular Economy
Brendan Edgerton
Manager, Circular Economy
Elena Giotto
Associate, Circular Economy
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