It Encompasses Three Principles: Design Out Toxins, Waste and Pollution Keep Products and Materials in Use Regenerate Natural Systems

THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY CONCEPT:

A PATHWAY TOWARDS MORE SUSTAINABLE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR WASTE
MONITORING

The concept of circular 
It encompasses three
economy offers an principles:
alternative to the current  Design out toxins,
linear “take, make, use,
dispose” economy
waste and pollution
model, and aims to keep

Keep products and
resources in use for as materials in use
long as possible, to 
Regenerate natural
extract maximum value systems
from them whilst in use,
and to recover and
regenerate products and
materials at the end of
In India nearly 700 
Collecting waste
ragpickers, many of became a significant
whom are socially source of livelihoods
marginalized for local communities,
and illiterate women, allowed for health
have been organized insurance Plastic
and trained in waste waste used as fuel in
collection and recycling furnaces and road
activities, which has construction
also improved their 
Establishment of pilot
livelihood. plastic recovery
Approximately 10 center Government
tonnes of plastic Madhya Pradesh
waste are collected at introduced policy on
five recovery centres in
Banana-tree Bark as an Alternative
to Plastic for Seedling Transport

Bags
Replace the use of plastic The use of bark bags in all

bags during reforestation SGP projects, saved

with bags made out of 
approximately 3,000,000
banana-tree bark. A main plastic bags. The local
part of the process is community also generates
transplanting saplings from income from the sale of the
the nursery to the bark bags to the project
reforestation site. In this managers IN Burundi
method, plastic bags filled ugarama district
with soil are typically used Muramvya province
to protect the roots of the
saplings during transport.
Recycling Plastic Waste
to Conserve Negril’s Coral Reef
Collection of 20 tonnes of recyclable waste

creating community



Reuse of recycled material and design of
education programmes, 
products from recycled materials
Biodiversity protection and coral reef monitoring;
better waste management protection of 4 species of turtles and corals
Updated Negril Marine Park Zoning Plan and
and the implementation of a

protected area
consistent system of 

Protection of 200 ha of marine and coastal area
Gender and youth outreach and awareness
recycling that would divert raising, 50 women involved in all project activities,

500 households, 2000 students and 30
tonnes of plastic materials businesses
Collaboration and partnerships established with 5
from the ocean.

local NGOs and the Negril Recycling Center


ashtrays, flower vases and building blocks were
created from glass waste and an entire house was
built from glass, plastic and aluminium supplied by
the Negril Recycling Center. Other products made
from plastic included plastic lumber
SIERRA LEONE
Youth-led Innovation: Transforming
Plastic Waste into New Construction Material

The project focused on a 
Youth Build has created
circular environmental sustainable jobs for over 400
management of municipal youths and vulnerable
wastebased on the women and has produced
principle of “reduce, reuse, over 15,000 e-stones with
minimal amount of coal for
and recycle.”
heat.

Waste reduction started 
Prior to their employment
with the collection and with Youth Build, the 400
sorting of waste. Plastic participants had no trained
and paper were kept aside skills, no sustainable source
as raw materials to be of income and earned
used to produce useful irregular daily wages
construction materials.
Plastic Recycling led by Women’s Group Contributes to
National Policy on Plastic Ban

Selected women drawn 
duced burning of plastic
from the communities waste and increased
underwent a week-long recycling
training session on plastic

5ha land previously filled with
recycling, which covered litter restored and allocated
for eco-farming
collection methods, 
Increased livelihoods from
storage, processing, sale of products of recycled
marketing, bookkeeping waste
and record management. 
Reduced environmental
pollution

Improved sanitation and
health for communities

Reduced urban migration
from rural area

Plastic waste has become 
Putting in place a circular
a raw material that method of plastic waste
generates income for management, this project

collectors, including people has seen an improvement
with disabilities. Through in the quality of life of the
recycling, re-use or energy beneficiaries. It contributes
production, materials such to the reduction of plastic
as plastics, aluminium, waste in landfills and
glass, textiles,biomass, or drains, and of the overall
even sludge, can be environmental pollution

reconverted into either raw and its attendant
materials or energy consequences of flooding,
briquettes. respiratory infections, skin
disease, etc.
AFGHANISTAN
Community-based Plastic Waste
Management for Wetland
Conservation

n particular, the
organization initiated
a collection
mechanism for waste
management, started
collecting waste from
1,500 families, and
installed 20 waste
bins in different parts
of the lake area. they
currently

receive a monthly

Decreased waste to 
Increased
landfill and increased environmental
materials awareness and

for recycling. Within introduction of a
eight months the recycling culture
project collected 
• Decreased waste

15 tonnes of sorted to landfill
waste (around 8.7 
• Contribution to
tonnes of plastic, national strategies

5.1 tonnes of paper, and policies
0.8 tonnes of metal 
After the event more
and 0.4 tonnes than 3 tonnes of trash

Drop-off locations for 
ue to awareness-
recyclables increased raising in the
from community, some

just one to a total of 
local restaurants and
27 bins. Additionally, events have started
the South to use

Eleuthera Emergency 
biodegradable plates,
Partners (SEEP) cups and other items,
Recycling Depot and

was strengthened. At 
stores have increased
the end of the project the availability of
1.4 tonnes biodegradable

Agencies

The Small Grants
Programme (SGP) is
a corporate
programme of the
Global

Environment Facility
(GEF) implemented
by the United Nations
Development

Programme (UNDP)
since 1992. SGP

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THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY CONCEPT:

bags during reforestation SGP projects, saved

Collection of 20 tonnes of recyclable waste

local NGOs and the Negril Recycling Center

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