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Ellen MacArthur Foundation
This report, Delivering the Circular Economy: A toolkit for policymakers, provides an actionable toolkit for policymakerswho wish to embark on a circular economy transformation.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
This summary report, Towards a Circular Economy: Business rationale for an accelerated transition, sets out the organisation's latest insights and analysis on the circular economy.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics provides, for the first time, a vision of a global economy in which plastics never become waste, and outlines concrete steps towards achieving the systemic shift needed.
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Circle Economy

Our world economy is only 9.1% circular, leaving a massive ‘Circularity Gap’. This alarming statistic is the main output of this first Circularity Gap Report, in which we launch a metric for the circular state of the planet. Taking the United Nations’ Emissions Gap Report as inspiration, the Circularity Gap Report provides a framework and fact-base to measure and monitor progress in bridging the gap, year on year. Being able to track and target performance via the Global Circularity Metric will help the global community engage in uniform goal-setting and guide future action in the most impactful way.

The report outlines four steps to take action in bridging the circularity gap: 

Ellen MacArthur Foundation
This report, Intelligent Assets: Unlocking the circular economy potential, finds that pairing circular economy principles with the information generated by intelligent devices creates a fertile ground for innovation that could enable this decoupling, and lead to broad social benefits.