Organiser(s): Lindström Group, Lindström India
Discover how workwear rental and maintenance can keep garments in use longer. Lindström experts will share practical lessons on durability, repair, reuse and resource-efficient laundry, helping organisations reduce waste and build long-term business value.
Organiser(s): The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
The session explores how to scale circular textile ecosystems and make recycled fibres price-competitive. It addresses market failures blocking investment in collection, sorting and recycling. Drawing on WBCSD pilots, it highlights value-chain action as a path to scale.
Organiser(s): Common Seas
Circular solutions in Small Island States face unique challenges of scale, cost and geography. We’ll explore what works in practice and how solutions can be implemented in island contexts. Expect real examples from the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, and learn how regional collaboration can help unlock scale.
Organiser(s):
Global Action Partnership for Extended Producer Responsibility – a consortium formed by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Environment Programme, PREVENT Waste Alliance, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
EPR schemes are spreading fast, but most still fund collection, sorting and recycling without delivering upstream circular economy outcomes. This session takes stock of what EPR has delivered, what it hasn’t, and what a bolder second-generation EPR needs to look like to drive real circular outcomes.
Organiser(s): The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy Industry Coalition (RECEIC)
How can proven collaboration models accelerate circularity for critical materials? Explore practical examples from existing initiatives and discuss how they can be adapted across regions and materials to build resilient, circular value chains.
Organiser(s):
EU Circular Economy Resource Centre (EU CERC),
International Council for Circular Economy (ICCE),
Circulearth, Sitra and Enabel
This is a practical policy-to-implementation session on how digital product passports (DPPs) can enable ecodesign and circular value chains. Hear policy insights and company perspectives, see a live demonstration of a frugal decentralised DPP, and test practical readiness tools in an interactive workshop.
Organiser(s): RISE
This session is built on 10+ years of research on how to develop and scale circular business models – resulting in the insight that these models cannot scale within our current economic system. We have identified 26 levers for transformative change, necessary to to scale a real circular economy.
Organiser(s):
Nordic Circular Hotspot, RISE Research Institute of Sweden, The Consumer Demand for Circular Urban Living Project, Maastricht Sustainability Institute,
Slovenian National Institute of Building and Civil Engineering
A close-up look at Nordic circular cities: what works, what carries the transition, and what still stands in the way. New research meets real-world practice from across the Nordics and Europe. The session closes with an open dialogue with international expert communities.
Organiser(s): African Circular Economy Network
Who ultimately benefits when EPR systems are introduced? Drawing on African evidence-based experience in plastics and e-waste, this session explores how EPR can boost reuse, refurbishment and recycling of these obligated waste streams while protecting and improving informal workers’ livelihoods.
Organiser(s):
Circular Friesland Association, Circle Economy, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (The Netherlands)
Many regions have circular strategies; few turn them into systemic change. Discover how Friesland (the Netherlands), London (UK) and Bega (Australia) use data, collaboration and long-term governance to move from insight to action, and take away practical lessons for your own region or organisation.
