Circular Economy Wales - Economi Gylchog Cymru

£5.4m investment will be a ‘game changer’ for Wales’ Zero Waste ambition
Eifion Williams CEO of Circular Economy Wales (CEW) CIC welcomed the investment and said the schools programme in particular could be a ‘game changer’ in Wales quest to become a Zero Waste nation by 2050.
Eifion said: “Social Enterprises working in our communities across Wales are experts in reaching un-tapped materials for recycling.
... "Only a few months since Circular Economy Wales CIC launched, we've seen the biggest financial shot in the arm today for Wales's community reuse sector for a number of years.
"50% of today's Welsh Government announcement of £5.4 million will be channelled towards specific reuse and schools recycling activities; programmes we've designed, trialled and promoted. Circular Economy Wales has consistently made the case over the last year that social enterprises, based in our communities across Wales, are well placed to be able to assist local authorities in capturing the hard to get to materials in the final 30%+ left in Wales's waste stream.
"Circular Economy Wales aims to assist Wales in it's journey towards Zero Waste, an incubator for new solutions ensuring that Wales becomes the standard bearer for the emerging 'Circular Economy' globally.
"We welcome the Welsh Government’s commitment to involving community organisations in the next phase of its Zero Waste Policy. Today takes Wales into new territory. I’m personally proud that Wales is taking the lead like this, Hannah Blythyn our Environment Minister is to be congratulated for her vision.”
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Fantastic news that Welsh Government is investing £5.4 million across eight new projects to improve levels of reuse and recycling! Eifion Williams CEO of Circular Economy Wales (CEW) CIC welcomed the investment and said the schools programme in particular could be a ‘game changer’ in Wales quest to become a Zero Waste nation by 2050.
Eifion said: “Social Enterprises working in our communities across Wales are experts in reaching un-tapped materials for recycling.
“Circular ...Economy Wales welcomes the total 5.4 million capital funding, the biggest shot in the arm for community recycling for a number of years. This will expand our community infrastructure and assist Local Authorities to accessing the harder to get at materials and products.
“Involving the education of the next few generations will be a game changer. This takes Wales into new territory where Wales will be the standard bearer globally for this kind of thinking. I’m personally proud that Wales is taking the lead like this, Hannah Blythyn is to be congratulated for her vision.”
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The Wales Circular Economy Charter - 2018
The organisations, groups and individuals signed up to this charter are champions who advocate, collaborate and innovate in order to transition Wales from the old linear economy to the new Circular Economy. In pursuance of this goal, We recognise: - That the linear ‘take, make and dispose’ extractive industrial model has now hit its financial, ecological and social limits and is denying Wales from fully achieving its Sustainable Deve...lopment goals. - That the Circular Economy solution does not require a negative change in the quality of our lives, nor does it require the loss of revenues or extra costs for businesses; to the contrary, it unleashes untapped wealth, prosperity and stability for all - That the Circular Economy builds economic, natural and social capital and that its benefits permeate through our communities, businesses and homes and that we have a role in its application both as consumers, workers and business leaders We aim and commit: - To build upon Wales’s global recycling achievements and to collaborate in all spheres of public life: utilising the available material flow and channelling it into new innovation: restorative and regenerative by design. - To maximise all opportunities provided to us by the new Circular Economy by embracing systems that reuse or recycle the last 30% of domestic waste in Wales: creating the maximum flow of resources into the products of the future - To develop or adopt new products in our homes and businesses where waste has been designed out: where products are designed to be repaired, refurbished and then easily disassembled for remanufacture at the end of their life - To develop or adopt renting models in traditional ownership areas and/or any system that enables full resource recovery and Zero Waste - To develop or utilise energy systems that compliment and work with all of the above: rejecting energy systems that destroy finite resources that are neither circular nor sustainable. - To account and to improve each year upon our social, environmental and economic sustainability within whichever sector we’re employed
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