The Capital Region of

Partnership for Circular Municipalities

Pernille Kernel Special Consultant on Resource Use & Circular Economy Capital Region of Denmark

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The Capital Region of Denmark (CRD) • Hospitals and healthcare services, Public transport, Soil, groundwater and mineral resources as well as Regional development The Centre for Regional Development: • Circular economy • Sustainable energy sources • Climate change 29 municipalities and 1,8 mio citizens. CRD has 39.400 employees and a total budget of € 5.3 billion.

Titel/beskrivelse (Sidehoved/fod) Navn (Sidehoved/fod) 2 The Capital Region of Denmark Circular economy – a fairly new approach Strategic level • Bringing stakeholders together • Finding common solutions • Creating roadmaps towards CE Demonstration actions • What can be done successfully? • Which challenges have to be overcome? • Upscaling

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PARCK: Turning municipalities into active players in the transition to CE PARCK: partnership for sustainable municipalities Purpose: Support, develop and demonstrate the role of the cities in the transition to circular economy. Economy: 1 mio Euro, 2/3 funded by CRD Participants: • 6 municipalities: , , Rødovre, , Hørsholm, Rudersdal • 3 waste management companies: Vestforbrænding, Norfors and BOFA • The Capital Region (project owner and participant) • Gate 21 (lead)

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Why participate? - Hørsholm Municipality

• ”Municipalities cannot address this challenge alone. We need a strong collaboration network, internally as well as with enterprises and citizens, in order to create the experiences and best practices that will take us one step further. PARCK is setting us on the right path.”

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Why participate? - Vestforbrænding

• ”We are partners with the municipalities on reuse and recycling, and we can see a great potential in developing new circular solutions. We handle the waste ressources from the citizens and the municipalities on a daily basis. In this project we will use this insight to help solve the challenges we are facing. • For example separating textiles from the waste designated for incineration and ensuring quality in the treatment of textiles.”

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PARCK focus

• Investigate the municipality’s potential to act as catalysts. • Develop and test a range of strategic and practical models for municipalities to cooperate with partners along the value chain. • Five cases form the core of the project • Common learning activities to ensure capacity building and exchange of experiences • Immediate dispersion of knowledge beyond one city’s border • Facilitate replication of best practices after finalisation.

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The five cases in the project are

• Circular value chain for building materials • Circular procurement and upcycling of textiles • Increased resource effectiveness and recycling of waste from local SME’s • Direct reuse and upcycling from the recycling station • Direct reuse of items collected from households

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Circular value chain for building materials • Ambition: 72 % of all waste must be recycled • Participants: BOFA, Waste Management Company and Municipality of Bornholm • Actions: • Selective demolition of appointed buildings • Marketplace for materials for reuse/recycling • Engaging local construction companies in using these materials • Challenge: No profitable business model

Titel/beskrivelse (Sidehoved/fod) Navn (Sidehoved/fod) 9 The Capital Region of Denmark Circular procurement and upcycling of textiles The Regional Hospitals and the Municipality of Copenhagen focus on procurement • Mapping amounts, use and disposal of specific textiles • Tenders: Demands today and in the future • Roadmap for chosen textiles Rødovre Municipality and Vestforbrænding focus on improved recycling of textiles from households • Collecting and mapping textiles • Studying available technologies • Stakeholder workshops • Developing a roadmap as well as a business case

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Resource effectiveness and recycling of waste from local SME’s • Purpose: Increase recycling and ressource efficiency of commercial waste & creating circular business models • Targeting SMEs that want to follow the waste flow and document the recycling rate of their waste • Developing a template for ressource clauses targeting waste handling and treatment companies: • Demands on sale, reuse and recycling of different waste fractions • Demands on documentation and traceability

Titel/beskrivelse (Sidehoved/fod) Navn (Sidehoved/fod) 11 The Capital Region of Denmark New channels for direct reuse and upcycling – •Direct reuse of building materials •Target items/fractions for upcycling-enterprises •Learning facility for upcycling

Titel/beskrivelse (Sidehoved/fod) Navn (Sidehoved/fod) 12 The Capital Region of Denmark New concept for improving direct reuse of items collected from households • Collecting more waste fractions for reuse • Online registration • Distribution through collaboration with socio-economic organizations and direct sale at the recycling station

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Expected impacts

• Methods and tools for municipalities to act as a catalyst for the transition to circular economy • Upgraded capacity among professionals in the municipalities and their value chain partners • Increased awareness, creativity and new behaviors among citizens regarding direct reuse • New jobs within areas such as direct reuse, waste sorting and upcycling

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