Circular City Actions Framework – Bringing the Circular Economy to Every City

A circular community promotes an equitable transition to sustainability across the urban space through multiple city functions and departments in cross-sectoral collaboration with research institutions, local businesses, and community residents.  In a circular economy, existing materials that were once used in a product’s original life cycle are recycled and reused while minimizing disposable waste and natural resource extraction.  The transition from a linear to a more circular economy offers cities the tools to support social equity, local job creation, public health, and community wealth.  A circular economy calls for collaboration among the public-, private, and third-sector (civil society) stakeholders and for governments, businesses and communities to be creative and flexible.