Share Peterborough

Categories: Governance, Strategy and Planning, Product Service Systems, Other Fractions, Collaborative Economy

Organisation: Peterborough City Council

Main partners:

Localisation: Peterborough (UK)

Summary

Share Peterborough is a totally free online sharing community for Peterborough organisations, reserved to subscribed members only. Registered members can thus exchange resources and needs, according to three main categories, people-products-places, for instance: someone can offer a spare meeting room to other members, while others can provide products, skills and services in exchange.

Active participation in Bologna

Categories: Governance, Strategy and Planning, Legal, Economic, Waste Prevention, Reuse and preparing for reuse, EEE, Land use, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Collaborative Economy

Organisation: Bologna Municipal Authority

Main partners:

Localisation: Bologna (IT)

Summary

Bologna Municipal Authority’s Register for Active Participation (Registro Cittadinanza Attiva del Comune di Bologna) represents an excellent example of governance structures and new legal frameworks aimed at fostering circular economy initiatives. The municipal authority has approved several circular economy projects within the framework of Bologna’s Regulations for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Public Property that was adopted by the Municipal Authority in 2014. One example is the association REUSE WITH LOVE, which is registered on the list for active participation in Bologna, with its two projects REUSE WITH LOVE and REUSE FOR GOOD.

Circular Economy in Basque country

Categories: Instruments, Biogenic fraction, Eco Design, Construction Material, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Business models, Eco Production, Paper, Legal, Economic, Eco Consumption, Metal, Waste Prevention, Glass, Technical and Research, Material fractions, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Communication and Education, EEE, Recycling, Product Service Systems, Wood, Other bulky items, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Other Fractions, Collaborative Economy

Organisation: 1) Basque Government’s Ministry for the Environment and Territorial Policy; 2) Ihobe (public agency of environment)

Main partners:

  • Udalsarea 21 network
  • Basque eco-design center

Localisation: Basque Country (ES)

Summary

In the case of the Basque Country, boosting the circular economy means committing to “greening” manufacturing, products, consumption and end-of-life, through public-private collaboration. Basque country has a long culture of networking and public-private collaboration and an average to high position on the “regional innovation scoreboard”.

Community gardens in Utrecht

Categories: Governance, Strategy and Planning, Biogenic fraction, Eco Production, Land use, Collaborative Economy

Tags: community gardens, Utrecht

Organisation: Utrecht City

Main partners:

Localisation: Utrecht (The Netherlands)

Summary

In Utrecht in the last few years a great diversity of community gardens has emerged. These include: gardens where young children work together with elderly people, gardens where people with diverse ethnic backgrounds unite, gardens where vulnerable people with severe mental and addiction challenges can find peace and learn to participate in society again, gardens in privileged neighbourhoods as well as in poorer districts, food gardens, educational gardens as well as more creative art gardens.