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Circular Innovation programme

The Circular Innovation Program 2016-2018 provides insight into the most important innovation projects and developments in the city in the field of Circular Economy and the way the City of Amsterdam a

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Antwerp, circular city of tomorrow

The research project 'Antwerp, the circular city of tomorrow' aims to generate new insights at the crossroads of urbanism, circular economy and spatial tasks in Antwerp.

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Barcelona + Sustainable map

Barcelona + Sustainable map is a tool for community revitalization, a project shared between government, businesses and third sector organizations.

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Barcelona Waste Prevention Plan

In order to incorporate waste prevention to waste management, Barcelona adopted the Waste Prevention Plan 2012-2020.

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Sustainable BH seal

Belo Horizonte’s municipal Action Plan for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction (APGHGER) has established a Greenhouse Gas emissions reduction target of 20 percent by 2030.

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Berlin energy and climate protection programme (BEK)

The Berlin energy and climate protection programme (BEK) is the "roadmap" towards climate neutrality, in which strategies and measures are defined.

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Waste Management Plan 2012-2020

Berlin's Waste Management Plan 2012-20 specifies the key steps needed for the development of waste management in the city into a modern, closed-loop system.

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Birmingham's Green Commission

Birmingham’s Green Commission is a partnership that acts as an advisory body to the City Council and the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership on all matters relating to the env

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Waste Strategy

Birmingham’s Waste Strategy aims to: 1) Prevent waste; 2) Create a 'circular economy'; 3) Work in partnership to reduce and reuse waste; 4) Maximize recycling and reuse; and 5) Move away from a 'one s

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Collaborative Programme for Redevelopment

Atelier Productive Metropolis BXL is an initiative in Brussels that proposes giving old industrial sites a new lease on life by focusing on attracting innovative production activities.

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Ecodynamic enterprise label

The “Ecodynamic enterprise” label is an official recognition of good environmental management practices by the Brussels-Capital Region.

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Educo Project

The Educo Project consists on the collection of Used Cooking Oil (UCO) at schools to produce biodiesel, involving students and creating jobs for people at risk of social exclusion.

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Cleantech clusters

CLEAN seeks to create an attractive platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration among Danish and international companies, knowledge institutions, organisations and authorities.

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Climate Plan

The Climate Plan is the City of Copenhagen’s plan for achieving carbon neutrality by 2025.

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Ecofeste

Within the project Ecofeste, the Municipality of Cremona has adopted a "Decalogue of good practices" that will be the reference point for event organizers pointing towards reduction in the amount of w

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Eastern Midlands Waste Regional Plan

The Eastern Midlands Waste Regional Plan sets out specific and measurable performance targets and aims to foster cooperation between the Eastern-Midlands, Southern and Connaught- Ulster Waste Regions

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Waste Bye-laws

It regulates the Storage, Presentation and Collection of Household & Commercial Waste.

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Frankfurt 2030

"Frankfurt Your City" is a dialogue process that accompanies and supports the development of the integrated urban development concept.

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Masterplan 100% Climate Protection

Since the beginning of 2013, Frankfurt has developed the “Masterplan 100 % Climate Protection” – a vision of how the city can halve today’s final energy consumption by the year 2050 and meet the remai

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Network "Learning Sustainability"

In 2008, the Frankfurt city council approved the city's participation in the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and launched the project "Fit for the Future - Learning to Sustain in Fr

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G'innova programme - Materiuum project

The G'innove program, managed by the Agenda 21 - Sustainable City service, is intended to provide financial support, limited in time, to projects presenting a societal innovation.

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Genie - Geneva Network of Industrial Ecology

The Environment directorate (Direction générale de l’environnement - DGE), in conjunction with the Cantonal energy board (Office cantonal de l’énergie - OCEN), the Foundation for industrial land in Ge

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Alelyckan re-use park

AleLyckan Ecopark provides a single place for recycling, reuse and second hand stores.

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Environmental policy

The goals of the City of Helsinki environmental policy have been set both for the long term to 2050 and for the medium term to 2020.

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Waste and Recycling Advisors

Waste and Recycling Advisors do a variety of education work across communities within Leeds.

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Collection on demand of bulky waste

The collection service is made on request of citizens. The collection on demand allows the collection of certain types of waste that cannot be collected by the conventional ways.

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Force project: Plastic Waste

The FORCE project aims to minimise the leakage of materials from the linear economy and work towards a circular economy.

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Force project: food and biowaste

The FORCE project aims to minimise the leakage of materials from the linear economy and work towards a circular economy.

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Force project: strategic metals

The FORCE project aims to minimise the leakage of materials from the linear economy and work towards a circular economy.

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Advance London

Advance London is a holistic programme to enable SMEs in capitalizing on the benefits of the circular economy.

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Les donnneries

The Metropolitan City of Lyon has created 12 donation centers, created for people taking objects, electronics and other objects.

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Local programme of household waste prevention 2019-2024

Communities must work to reduce by 10% the household waste and assimilated (DMA) produced per capita by 2020.

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Call for projects - recovery of textiles, shoes and linens

The recovery of textiles, linens and shoes is part of Marseille's Metropolitan Framework of Waste Management, which involves around 750 collection points.

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Contract - Objectives for Waste and Circular Economy 2017-19 (CODEC)

The "Objectives for Waste and Circular Economy" contract establishes a participative action towards the reduction of waste production and enhancement of materials value involving ADEME, Conseil Region

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Integral Urban Development Project

In the 1990s Medellín was one of Latin America’s most dangerous cities (Vulliamy, 2013).The situation spurred the City of Medellín, together with a range of stakeholders including politicians, NGOs, a

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New approach to solid waste management

Over the last ten years, the City of Medellín has achieved numerous improvements in its standards for solid waste management.

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Halle 2

Halle 2 is a municipal secondhand store that combines circular economy with the idea of actively supporting sustainable lifestyles in Munich.

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Climate budget 2017-2020

The climate budget consists of 42 measures which are distributed across three sectors: Energy/buildings, Resources and Transport.

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Waste Management Strategy

The city of Oslo has set an overall target to reduce its CO2 emissions in 50% by 2030 and to become carbon neutral by 2050 compared to 1990.

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Observatory for the reduction, reuse and recycling of waste

The Observatory for the reduction, reuse and recycling of waste (O3R) was created in 2010 at the initiative of François Dagnaud, then Deputy Mayor of Paris, in charge of cleanliness and waste treatmen

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Home Composting and Food Waste Reduction (Terra a' Terra)

Terra à Terra is a project that promotes home composting at collective buildings, houses and in public or private institution’s, for the bio waste reduction on Lipor’s Municipalities.

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Roadmap Circular Economy

The Roadmap focuses on (1) Urban development with new housing and infrastructure built from local recycled products and through adopting modular and self-sustaining models; (2) Cleantech/ sharing econ

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Innovation support focused on circular economy

Innovation support focused on Circular Economy looks for more products to be designed for longer lifetimes, ready to be disassembled, repaired and eventually recycled; with more companies keeping hold

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Scottish Food Waste Reduction Target

The Scottish food waste reduction target comes from the country's ambition for waste prevention and using resources more efficiently.

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"Benefit As You Save" project

The "Benefit As You Save" project focuses on the development of an Action Plan to conduct pilots for separate collection of packaging and food waste and to promote participation of citizens in the pro

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Reduction of food waste

The Municipality of Sofia has launched an information campaign to promote the reduction of food waste.

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Biowaste collection

Styria is the first Austrian province to legally implement the separate collection of biogenic waste by integrating it into the Styrian Waste Management Act 1990 (StAWG).

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Spring clean-up campaign

Every year from April to May, the City of Tallinn (EE) holds a big Spring Clean-Up Campaign.

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Collection program at the Super Bowl stadium

The 2018 Super Bowl debuted a collaborative effort called Rush2Recycle that targeted zero waste at US Bank Stadium in Minnesota. NFL, PepsiCo, Aramark, US Bank Stadium, and the Minnesota Sports Fac

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Regional Food System Strategy

The globalization of food systems has made agri-food systems less sustainable.

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