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Focusing on cities, UrbanCircle – urban waste into circular economy benefits – seeks to integrate waste management and resource recovery into a circular economy. The project highlights synergies between different waste and resource flows, focusing on water, waste, food and energy.
The project is striving to equip cities with tools to boost their resource efficiency, capitalise on waste and create novel governance structures, based on participatory planning and multi-stakeholder engagement.
Biomethane plant in Bottrop, Germany. Photo: Hans Peter / Wikimedia.
Journal article / This study informs the scientific community and decision-makers on planning for sustainable biowaste valorisation that addresses context-dependencies.
Journal article / This paper reviews 24 decision support software tools used for sanitation planning and how they address resource recovery aspects.
Journal article / This paper presents a framework for assessing the societal impacts of increased circularity of resource recovery from organic waste streams at city scale.
Other publication / In this book, SEI's Daniel Ddiba and other leading energy researchers share their views on challenges and solutions related to the energy system of the future.
Journal article / A case study shows enabling factors and governance barriers critical to implementing circular economy strategies for organic waste in urban areas.
Other publication / This research explores the importance of applying circular economy principles to the management of organic waste streams through resource recovery.
Feature / Explore your city or community's resource recovery potential of urban organic waste streams on the new web-based platform for SEI’s newly launched REVAMP tool.
Journal article / How can the circular economy potential of urban waste streams in low- and middle-income countries be realized?
Journal article / This paper identifies factors that facilitate or limit governance capacity for circularity in the form of resource recovery from urban organic waste streams.
SEI report / This inventory report is a first step towards creating scenarios and roadmaps for a circular economy based on organic waste resources in Naivasha.
SEI brief / UrbanCircle uses the REVAMP tool to help cities identify the opportunities in their organic waste.
Feature / SEI has taken the first step towards creating scenarios and roadmaps for a circular economy based on organic waste resources in Naivasha.
Feature / Poop is a sustainable alternative source of energy that could help reduce emissions that lead to climate change.
Perspective / Resource recovery from sanitation and waste management can be a lucrative business. You can get it up and running in your city with support of the REVAMP tool.
Feature / In Chía, Colombia, inadequate waste management is putting lives and ecosystems at risk. We worked with locals to crunch data and calculate scenarios for change.
Tool / Resource Value Mapping (REVAMP) helps city planners estimate resources and reuse potential in a city's wastewater and their financial values.
Initiative / This initiative gathers SEI’s work in sustainable sanitation, bringing together research, capacity-building and policy support.
Tool / Resource Value Mapping (REVAMP) helps city planners estimate resources and reuse potential in a city's wastewater and their financial values.
SEI brief / Clean and Green is the first rural sanitation implementation framework that explicitly addresses efficient local resource management
Other publication / This policy brief summarizes case studies and insights from a session organized by SEI and partners at Stockholm World Water Week 2017.
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