If we continue business as usual, we will double the extraction of materials by 2060, far beyond planetary boundaries. It simply not possible. As a society, we need to face the fact that circularity is the only response possible to a growing population on a finite planet.

But what does circularity actually mean?

if you are asking yourself this question - and no worries, you are not the only one - have a look at the UNEP Circularity Platform. I think it is a very useful resource which summarises the circularity concept, its scope and how it contributes to sustainable consumption and production patterns.

If we continue business as usual, we will double the extraction of materials by 2060, far beyond planetary boundaries. It simply not possible. As a society, we need to face the fact that circularity is the only response possible to a growing population on a finite planet.

But what does circularity actually mean?

if you are asking yourself this question - and no worries, you are not the only one - have a look at the UNEP Circularity Platform. I think it is a very useful resource providing an understanding of the circularity concept, its scope and how it contributes to promoting sustainable consumption and production patterns.

Sorting and recycling of low value, post-consumer textiles would generate an additional €74m per year in value for the European economy.

This is the finding of the Sorting for Circularity Europe Project analysing post-consumer garments in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK.

This provides a strong business case for sorting of low value textiles in Europe and highlights that greater investment as well as policy reforms are needed.

Can Extended-Producer-Responsibility (EPR) be the response to circularity? Alberta, Canada, thinks so.

Alberta has started the regulatory process that will shift the cost of recycling away from municipalities and onto the companies that produce the items.

The new extended producer responsibility regulation, covers product packaging, single-use products, paper products, batteries, pesticides, most corrosive and flammable household products and their containers.

It sets out annual targets for what must be recycled. For example, 80 per cent of the paper products listed in the regulation that are used in Alberta homes must be recycled by 2027. The goal is 95 per cent by 2033.

? Is any EPR scheme available in your country or state? Let us know in the comments below!

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Colleagues, we share more information about the environmental performance trend in Guatemala, based on the analysis of the results of 296 self-diagnoses carried out by companies with operations in Guatemala.

In the methodology defined to measure the level of environmental performance of companies, we have considered 35 aspects, organized into 7 sections. In this graph you can see the note (on a scale of 0 to 100 points) of each one of the aspects, the color of the bar is the performance ranking that has been established, being 5 levels.

Below is a description of each ranking defined at the moment. At the moment the graph is in Spanish.

Red Ranking - High risk due to legal non-compliance, economic losses and environmental impacts.

Orange and Yellow Ranking - Moderate risk, corrective approach, high cost reduction potential by prioritizing prevention.

Green Ranking - Low risk, optimization of resources, opportunity to extend the scope of environmental management.

Blue Ranking - Ranking focused on environmental prevention and resource efficiency, solid technical and strategic foundations to establish a route focused on the Circular Economy.

Dear friends, the Cleaner Production Center of Guatemala launched the Environmental Performance Program in 2018. With this program we are supporting companies to carry out self-diagnoses via the web to identify advances and other opportunities identified in included in the methodology. of analysis. DDA tool (Diagnostics of Environmental Performance in Spanish) facilitates formulas to carry out self-diagnoses, in a practical way, quickly in generating automatic reports determining the performance ranking. We have updated the data obtained from 296 auto diagnostics for Guatemala, I hope that in the month of October we will publish a report with more detail, at the moment I share a couple of graphs where you can see the most important data in a summarized way,

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