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): 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): Netherlands Enterprise Agency | RVO.nl, Dutch embassy and other missions – India | The Netherlands and India
The session connects stakeholders around solutions, innovations, markets, finance and policy. Participants use lessons from the Netherlands–India programme on building partnerships and scaling circular waste initiatives that can inform and inspire similar efforts globally.
Organiser(s): GIZ India
Explore how digital governance, community action and innovation are advancing the circular economy in India. Discover practical solutions for waste management, resource recovery, traceability and citizen engagement, with approaches that can be scaled across the Global South.
This session examines strategies for extending the working life of ICT and electronics equipment through reuse, repair, refurbishment and remanufacturing business models.
It explores how recovering critical minerals from e-waste can build resilient secondary markets and reduce dependence on virgin material extraction.
Global technology firms, Indian innovators and industry associations will discuss practical solutions and partnerships needed to scale circular ICT value chains.
Organiser(s): Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI), Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (CMET), Recycling and Environment Industry Association of India (REIA)
This session explores how inclusive circular economy policies, business models and partnerships can empower waste pickers and other informal workers as key agents of resource recovery, decent work, and equitable economic growth while advancing a just transition to circularity.
Informal workers are central to material recovery and circular value chains across emerging economies. The session will demonstrate how to strengthen their integration into the circular economy, drawing on India’s experience alongside perspectives from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean as well as examine pathways to improve livelihoods, social protection and resource efficiency through a just transition.
Organiser(s): United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Alliance of Indian Wastepickers (AIW)
Plastic waste remains one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time, yet it also presents an unprecedented opportunity for economic and industrial innovation.
This session explores strategies, technologies and policy frameworks designed to transition from a linear model to a fully circular plastics economy, while sharing practical solutions for advancing circularity in plastic packaging across the value chain, from product design to traceability, advanced sorting and high-quality recycling.
Transforming plastic waste management requires combining innovative technology, robust policy and cross-sector collaboration to drive resource efficiency and scale the adoption of recycled materials.
Organiser(s): Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy Industry Coalition (RECEIC), Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
This session explores how empowering citizens to adopt circular lifestyles can accelerate the transition towards more sustainable consumption and a circular economy.
As everyday choices around reuse, repair, sharing, waste segregation and recycling play a critical role in reducing resource use and waste generation, behavioural change is essential for achieving circularity at scale.
The session will showcase how Mission LiFE and other initiatives are leveraging awareness campaigns, policies, digital tools and community engagement to empower citizens and foster more circular and sustainable lifestyles.
Organiser(s): Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of India (MoEFCC), International Council for Circular Economy (ICCE)
This session explores how cities worldwide are institutionalising circularity through municipal governance capacity, integrated planning and cross-sector collaboration.
Drawing on India’s experience alongside global practices, the session will highlight transferable models for resource-efficient and circular urban systems.
It will also examine how urban governance can transform waste, materials and resource systems through stronger institutions, partnerships and system-level planning.
Organiser(s): National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
