2022 Highlights
What a week! Thank you to everyone who participated, hosted events and shared their stories during Circular City Week 2022.
If you missed out on some of the events, or want to re-watch your favorite speakers, the recorded events are available on this page. You can also access the presentations used by many of the speakers here. The extensive photo gallery provides pictures from the 115 events.
Recordings and event highlights will be added continuously.
Pioneer Talks
Event Recordings
Circular City Week Official Opening Ceremony: Circular Activation - The Impact of Initiatives
Join the official opening event of Circular City Week New York together with our inspirational Pioneer Partners who are on the mission to spur action towards a circular system.
Circular City Week Official Closing Celebration: Corporate Trailblazers – Embracing Circular Economy the Nordic Way
The week ended on a high note with inspiring and energizing discussions together with Circular City Week Premium Partner Nordic Innovation and large Nordic corporates.
Circularity in Furniture Series
How Business Leaders Drive Change: Leading the Way on ‘Circularity’ from Within
Monday May 2, 2022
HOSTED BY MEBL | TRANSFORMING FURNITURE, SUSTAINABLE FURNISHINGS COUNCIL, & AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS NETWORK
The hosts explore change from within using examples from the furniture and consumer products industries to illustrate strategies applicable across many sectors.
Circularity in Furniture Series
Public Policy & Circularity – Business Can Move the Needle
Wednesday May 4, 2022
HOSTED BY MEBL | TRANSFORMING FURNITURE, SUSTAINABLE FURNISHINGS COUNCIL, & AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS NETWORK
How can companies support and inform critical public policy to advance the transition to a circular economy?
Circularity in Furniture Series
Circularity and the Future of Furniture Design
Working towards a circular economy is a clear path towards a healthier future for the planet, our homes and the people who make our objects, but there can be hiccups along the way. Join us to discuss holistic and realistic steps and strategies to implement the circular economy.
Circularity in Furniture Series
The Circularity Challenge of Toxic Chemicals in Furniture and Interiors
This event shined light on the problem of hazardous chemicals in furniture and interiors, with a focus on solutions that facilitate circular design, cleaner manufacturing, and material reuse in a circular economy.
Inclusive Circular City Symposium
U.S. Circular City Snapshots: Firsthand Accounts of the Circular City Transition
Dive into a session on urban perspectives on opportunities and barriers with real-time examples from U.S. cities and their journey towards a circular economy.
Inclusive Circular City Symposium
Europe: Ahead of the Curve? Inclusive Circular Cities in Europe
The key is, how to make circular theory a reality in the spaces that we live in? The current policy framework in Europe is critical and can help cities across the globe in their journey trying to adopt a circular approach.
Inclusive Circular City Symposium
Mexico City: Convening a Multi-Sector Platform to Enable Circularity
Mexico City is a mega-city with major water-food-energy challenges for the growing population. In this session you can learn about the circular case of Mexico City and the importance of coalition building and multi-stakeholder engagement.
Inclusive Circular City Symposium
Accra: Incubating Circularity at the Intersection of Informal Waste Collectors & Material Reverse Logistics Hubs
Ghana is a leading circular country in Africa taking a holistic approach to tackle massive issues, such as waste, and human rights. Local leaders from the forefront of circularity are engaging in this impactful session.
Inclusive Circular City Symposium
Brazil: Building Inclusive Circular Ecosystems in Urban Hubs at Scale
The transition to a circular economy in Brazil is driven by the potential for an economic boom, where Porto Alegre is an example of enabling the circular transition.
Inclusive Circular City Symposium
New Delhi: Unlocking Circularity to Repurpose Waste & Mitigate Air Pollution
This event is zooming in on India and how the circular economy transition can support economic benefits by creating an inclusive and regenerative platform.
Inclusive Circular City Symposium
Inclusive Circular Cities: A Remedy for the World
Watch a deep dive into the essence of circularity and focus on how companies, institutions, and nonprofits can unlock good at scale and be a critical platform helping humanity live within the planetary boundaries.
Circularity in Sustainable ZEV Fleet Transitions
The focus of this discussion is the opportunity electrification of mobility is playing as cities transition to an equitable, decarbonized and circular future as well as the challenges that must be overcome. The invited conversants are leaders across North and South America, each bringing examples of successful initiatives underway that can inform and scale to other communities.
Circularity IRL: How Circular Net Zero Ambitions are Taking Hold Through Action
Entrepreneurs, scientists, think tanks and convening bodies are talking about how to address real on-the-ground challenges. They are looking at a vast array of conditions and landscapes where they’ve progressed understanding and collaboration to address challenges from decarbonization, electrification, resiliency, equity and public health.
Circularity and the Green Mobility in the City of Brussels
This event shared common and successful models in green mobility in Brussels and how the city and its citizens already benefit from those examples.
Circularity in the Textile Industry: Examples of the City of Brussels
Apart from designing with biodegradable or recycled materials, producing with resource efficiency and after-sales reuse, there are so many frameworks that Brussels companies are using towards a full circular textile industry.
The Circular and Regenerative Built Environment in the city of Brussels - Shifting from Sustainable to Regeneration
Instead of doing less damage to the environment, it is now time go a step further and to learn how one can integrate ecological systems as a basis for design and, as such, regenerate the environment. Want to get to know more about companies pursuing projects like this in Brussels?
Circularity in the Food Industry in the City of Brussels, Capital of Europe
How to integrate urban agriculture and develop resilient food systems in the face of climate change to the problem of food waste? Examples from projects in Brussels.
Creating Resilient Agri-Food Systems with Circularity in Mind
Food Nations patron, HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, opened the talk with motivating words about how a shift towards a circular approach is both necessary and inevitable and requires responsive, clever and creative thinking all while protecting the food systems from external shocks.
Measurement and Circularity: How a NYC Bakery Uses Data to Optimize for Zero Waste
In this session they shared how Breads is tracking their wasted materials every day using the Foodprint Trax® mobile and web-based app, food waste via Breads’ POS system, and the impact of partner programs such as Too Good to Go. They touched on data collection methodology and how the team uses data to inform and enrich their zero waste journey.
Who Cares?
This event explored if a tear in your shirt mean the end of its use? If a rusty bike be reborn again? How we can care for the worn floor in our homes? And the land our homes are built on? And how it all connects.
The Built Environment: The Untapped Opportunity for Circularity?
WorldGBC introduces opportunities for the circular economy in the built environment to demonstrate environmental, economic and social sustainability opportunities and urgency for action.
Moving Closed-Loop Agriculture Forward
During this panel Re-Nuble together with Brooklyn Grange and Hundred Acre Farmsy shared actionable steps towards sustainable agriculture practices as a way to deal with the current global environmental crisis, discussed if waste-to-value can truly be incorporated into an indoor farm’s operations and methods to do so, as well as strategies to move the needle forward for closed loop agriculture.
Waste2Soils - Optimizing the Urban Waste Stream to Create Soils and Capture Carbon
Explore the opportunities that exist to realize a truly sustainable future driven by urban soils.
How to Eliminate Waste Using Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
Watch a discussion about the Circa Token, sustainable, carbon neutral blockchains, how incentives can influence behavior and how data can be collected and verified via the blockchain.
Sustainable Financial Models in the Food Industry: An Ecosystem Approach
A case study discussion of the critical importance of making any circular initiative financially attractive.
Exploring Circularity in Canadian Communities
At this event you will gain insights from international experts on why and how local governments can benefit from adopting circular economy approaches. Featuring graduates from their Peer-to-Peer Network, alongside leading circular economy organizations Circle Economy and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
The Next Frontier: Circularity in Design
Tuesday May 3, 2022
HOSTED BY LAURENCE CARR INC. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SUSTAINABLE FURNISHINGS COUNCIL & EARTHX
Circular economy practices are becoming more widely understood and have finally taken a foothold in the built environment and furnishings industry. But how do we accelerate this movement, what is the next frontier of circular progress, and what impact can it have?
Education and Skills: Getting Ready for the Emerging Job Market in a Circular Economy
Watch a panel discussion about the importance of education in the domain of circular economy, the role it plays in bridging the gap in the utmost required skills, and the highly considerable potential it brings in driving job creation across all industries.
Tackling the Supply Chain Data Bottlenecks with the Toxnot Exchange and Digital Product Passports
Digital product passports are the future of supply chain data management. Passports allow increased access to accurate materials data, simplified data exchange, and greater visibility into your entire supply chain. Join Lily Hogan to review exactly how passports are created on the Toxnot Exchange and learn how they benefit everyone throughout your supply chain. From manufacturers to every upstream supplier.
Presentations and Outcome Materials
Designing Inclusive Circular Business Support Services in the Pacific Northwest
Measurement and Circularity: How NYC Bakery Uses Data to Optimize for Zero Waste
By Foodprint & Breads Bakery
Committing to Circularity for Future Growth & Internationalization
Hemp: The Premier Plant for a Circular and Bio-based Economy
Recap from Food Nations Global Food Talk “Creating resilient agri-food systems with circularity in mind”
By Food Nation
Remanufacturing - A Hidden & Critical Lever for a Strong Circular Economy Onepager
