There is a growing recognition that our current take-make-waste linear economy is a significant contributor to overflowing landfills, marine and terrestrial pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss and overconsumption of our natural resources.
A Circular Economy approach can be used to progress away from a linear economy, to enhance waste minimisation and resource efficiency, and progress greener growth opportunities.
This side event will introduce concepts of Circular Economy and provide information to member countries opportunities to incorporating Circular Economy into waste management decision making and legislation.
Presentations will include comparison of Linear Economy and Circular Economy and overview Circular Economy opportunities for PICTs to enhance waste management and minimise pollution to marine and terrestrial environment.
Circular Economy brings several opportunities for PICTs, including closing material flow loops through initiatives such as refusal, resource efficiency, sharing platform adoption, recycling, remanufacturing, repairing, and second use level. Each of these initiatives circulates resources from later stages back into earlier stages of the value chain to empowering their reuse, thus decreasing the stock of “inadequately disposed products” and improving value throughout the economy. Circular Economy will contribute to potential economic benefits that include:
• increased GDP and GVA per capita,
• reduced import vulnerability,
• reduced trade deficit,
• employment and education opportunities,
• improved creditworthiness,
• reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,
• reduced waste disposal to landfill,
• regenerated natural systems.
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Member countries: Solomon Islands, Cook Island
Swire Shipping
ANZPAC
Pacific Recycling Foundation
SPREP Waste Management and Pollution Control (WMPC) Programme
SPREP Environmental Monitoring and Governance (EMG) Programme
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Susana Telakau, Solid Waste Management Adviser, (WMPC)
Hilary Boyes, PacWastePlus Project, Technical Waste Project Officer - Resource Recovery, (WMPC)
Mohammed Asid Zullah, Pollution Adviser, (WMPC)
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Flyer
Concept Note and Agenda
Circular economy - unlocking waste as a resource
Circular economy
The Moana Taka partnership
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