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Circular Economy as 'Circular Metabolism'
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City/Country
Paris, France
Initiative
Starting from 2014, Paris began its CE transition by exploring the city urban metabolism: results and data was disseminated by an app in order to visualize the resources flows (materials, water and energy) and map out some CE innovative initiatives. In 2015 the “États généraux de l’économie circulaire du Grand Paris” (250 partners between associations, companies, institutions, universities and with a citizen engagement) came up with a White paper that suggested 65 actions in order to facilitate the CE transition. In 2017 Paris defined “Le Plan économie circulaire de Paris” focusing on zero household waste, map out of all plastic chains starting from 2019, total food waste collection by 2020, zero building chain waste. Two roadmaps (2017 and 2018) were defined: every roadmap is composed of 15 different and concrete actions.
Level
City level
Period of
Implementation
2017-2020
Core vision
The Paris transition towards a CE is made up of three main domains (waste management, demand and behaviour of consumers, goods and services provided by economic actors) which in turn are based on seven pillars:
Sustainable supplies;
Ecodesign;
Industrial and Territorial ecology;
Functional economy;
Responsible consumption (collaborative in particular);
Extension of the duration of use (reuse and repair);
Recycling.
The strategy combines existing and sustainable-oriented municipality plans with two specific CE roadmaps, where concrete actions (15) are implemented after a previous feasibility value process. The actions are three-levels related: City services/ administration, Territory of Paris (exercise of powers, public policies), Metropolis of Greater Paris (partnerships).
Implementation & Governance
In 2017, after an action diagnostic and feasibility studies phases, a first roadmap was defined by 15 practical actions that were splitted up in 5 categories:
Planning & construction (building materials, building sites, sustainable and circular construction);
Reduction, reuse, repair (waste reduction, repair, re-use, re-manufacturing in Paris);
Support for Actors (Incubator, sharing, promote and raise awareness, inter-company synergies, network);
Public procurement (sustainable purchases, clothing);
Responsible consumption.
In November 2018, after another action diagnostic and feasibility studies, a second 15 actions roadmap was defined and divided in 6 new categories:
Efficient administration (number reduction, resale and contribution plan, furniture reuse, plastic use reduction);
Responsible consumption (fostering places sharing-economy based, circular fashion);
Culture (fostering CE actions in cultural spaces);
Events (sustainable and circular-based organisations and assessment);
Awareness and education (higher school education, CE education toolkit, municipal staff training, zero waste);
Territorial-level synergy (local energy and local water enhancement fostering disposal and reuse, public procurement and building value-chain).
At the same time, an assessment plan was released, where there’s a generic evaluation of the strategy evolution and specific actions progress as well.
Instruments and Levers
Biodiversity plan
New Climate Plan
Paris Resilience Strategy
Other Municipality sustainable development plans (Climate and Energy plan, City of Paris staff travel plan, Local Urban Planning scheme, Local Housing programme, Local Waste prevention programme).
Governance
A multiple governance:
PROPOSE:
Open forum (Participants from the General Assembly on CE, all citizens);
PREPARE:
Technical Committee (General Secretariat, CE representatives from the Departments, Managers of actions in the plan or project leaders, any external figure according to the agenda);
Steering Committee (Presidency, Deputy mayors, Office of the Mayor of Paris, any other elected on request by the committee presidency);
ADVISES:
Sponsorship Committee (Qualified figures)
Partners
Department of Green Spaces and the Environment (DEVE)
Urban Planning Department (DU)
Department of Roads and Transport (DVD)
Department of Heritage and Architec- ture (DPA)
Department of Accommodation and Housing (DLH)
Department of Economic Attractiveness and Employment (DAE)
Department of Property, Logistics and Transport (DILT)
Department of Finance and Procurement (DFA)
Department of Information Systems and Technology (DSTI)
The Metropolis of Greater Paris (MGP)
Department of Sanitation and Water (DPE)
Department of Educational Affairs (DASCO)
Legal Affairs Department (DAJ)
Department of Informations and Number System (DSIN)
General Secretariat (SG)
Department of Cultural Affairs (DAC)
Department of Information and Communication (DICOM)
Department of School Affairs (DASCO)
Department of Human Resources (DRH)
Municipality of 10e (M10)
Department of Public Construction and Architecture (DCPA)
Other public-private partnerships (different for every action of the roadmap)
Indicators and
Monitoring system
Observatoire national des emplois et métiers de l’économie verte (Onemev)
Service de l’Observatoire et des Statistiques (SOeS)
Commissariat Général au Développement Durable (CGDD)
The analysis tool was LOCALFOOTPRINT® developed by UTOPIES
Budget allocated
Not specified
Results, impacts and learnings
By 2020 Paris aims to:
Reduce quantities of household waste (-10%);
Generalise the sorting of organic waste at source for all producers;
Sort all plastic packaging (before 2022);
Recover waste from construction and public works in the form of materials (70%);
End to provision of disposable plastic cups, glasses and plates, except for those that can be composted in household compost and made entirely or in part from bio-based materials;
Proportion of recycled paper in public purchases - the rest must be sourced from sustainably managed forests - (40%).
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