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Circular Economy:
Policy Setting and Drivers
Go Green Breakfast Meeting
Dr Dominic Hogg
Chairman
Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd
2nd December 2015
The Hierarchy
Prevention
Preparation for Reuse
Recycling
Other Recovery
Disposal
Design
as Viewed by Designers
Commodity Prices as a Driver
The Case
• ‘the costs of making stuff are becoming
unpredictable & expensive’… ‘resource
scarcity and tighter environmental standards
are here to stay’
Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation 2012
• ‘In a world of high and volatile resource
prices, a CE offers huge business
opportunities’
Source: Chatham House briefing paper
Is the Economy ‘Linear’? - Disposal
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Commodity Prices as a Driver?
Why?
An Alluring Identity?
Rising demand + increasing
volatility
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high commodity prices + a circular
economy
What if prices fall?
José Antonio Ocampo (2013) Super-cycles of Commodity Cycles of Commodity
Prices Since the Mid-nineteenth Century, Presentation at the IMF, March 20 2013.
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Do we Need Policy to Drive us
Circular?
• If markets are ‘volatile’, can they drive the
behaviour we want to see?
• Policy intervention is likely to help…
• … and it’s justified
DG Env – waste targets review; DG Env – potential for
ecological tax reform in EU-28; GLA / LWARB - Route map to
a circular economy for London.
The Commission Package
Eco-design
Working with key OEMs and contract manufacturers in the
EU, US, Korea and China on handset eco-design
requirements, taking into account WEEE and RoHS
requirements and best practice for durability, repair and reuse
EMAS
Member of JRC
Technical Working
Group on EMAS for
waste management
Repair / Reuse
WRAP - Product
returns;
ZWS - Reverse
logistics study
Ecolabel / GPP
JRC - Revision of ecolabel for
paper ; OECD – sustainable
materials management; ZWS –
specifications for reuse, repair and
remanufacture
Plastics / Marine Litter
0.25 -
15% plastic bottles*
77Enough to
make
*@13g each
billion
DG Env – MSFD – sources of
microplastics and policies; strategies
for port reception facilities
Revised Waste Targets
DG Env – development of reference model on
MSW management; support to impact assessment
on 1st and 2nd CE packages
Other
• Food• Improve likelihood of donation
• Labelling
• Critical raw materials• Improved recovery through design and recovery
technologies
• C&D• Pre-demolition guidelines
• Indicators for env performance of buildings
• Biomass and related products• Cascading
• Sustainability of bioenergy
