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Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The report, The New Plastics Economy: Catalysing action, provides a clear action plan, endorsed by over 40 industry leaders, for the global plastics industry to design better packaging, increase recycling rates, and introduce new models for making better use of packaging.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The report, Achieving "Growth Within", focuses on the mobility, food and built environment value chains, which together represent 60% of consumer expenditure and 80% of resource use.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
This scoping paper, Urban Biocycles, focuses on the potential of the significant volume of organic waste flowing through the urban environment.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
This paper, Cities in the Circular Economy: An initial exploration, outlines some of the challenges cities are facing in today’s linear economy, explores the alternative of a ‘circular city’, and collates our research to date on the benefits of a circular economy for cities.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The report, A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion’s future, outlines a vision and sets out ambitions and actions – based on the principles of a circular economy – to design out negative impacts and capture a USD 500 billion economic opportunity by truly transforming the way clothes are designed, sold, and used.