A collection of circular procurement best practices, aiming to help public procurers to better analyse the needs of the organisation and challenge the market to a more circular supply of products and services.
Kantoor2023: a sustainable and circular building in Brussels
EC GPP Case Study: The Kantoor2023 project is a renovation project of the two towers of the World Trade Centre (WTC) in Brussels. The resulting residential-work complex showcases sustainability and circularity.
Lessons Learnt from the procurement pilots in Circular PP
Between 2017 and 2020, Aalborg (Denmark, Malmö (Sweden), and Smiltene and Pļaviņas (Latvia) piloted innovative new approaches to buying circular goods and services as part of the Circular PP project. Their experiences have been collected in this report, which provides a highly useful guide for any other public buyers interested in trying out circular procurement. A summary version is also available.
English
Europe/EU, Denmark, Latvia, Sweden
Food and catering, ICT (information and communication techn.), Furniture
Increasing brick recovery for reuse when procuring demolition services - Hjørring Municipality
EC GPP Case Study - a pilot project that aimed to increase the recovery and recycling of bricks when procuring demolition services for two buildings, a former police station and one other building, which were both located on the same road and were at the end of their functional life.
City of Mechelen - Procuring energy-efficient indoor lighting-as-a-service
The city views the circular economy as an essential approach for achieving sustainability goals and is exploring procurement approaches where waste can become new raw materials and where public authorities purchase a specific service instead of buying a product.