Topics
We organise our actions in six thematic & strategic agendas:
Strategic Agendas:
Bio-economy
Circular Construction
Chemicals/Plastics
Manufacturing Industry
Food Chain
Water Cycles
Seven leverages provide additional support:
Leverage effects:
Lever Policy Instruments
Lever Circular Procurement
Lever Communication
Lever Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Lever Financing
Lever Jobs & Skills
Lever Research
What, why and how?
Why are we pursuing a circular economy?
Future visions 2050
How do we see our circular future?
About our management
Who steers what at Flanders Circular?
Our Approach / Strategic Agendas
Manufacturing industry
Why
The transition to a more circular economy is urgent and necessary. Difficult access to certain raw materials, or even their depletion, and sharply rising and volatile raw material prices, are major challenges. By focusing on circular strategies, the manufacturing industry will make an important contribution to reducing this material footprint. Indeed, making materials accounts for around a third of CO2 emissions.
The circular transition simultaneously offers many opportunities for the manufacturing industry. A thriving manufacturing industry is an important lever for a prosperous Flanders.
Assets of Flanders
Flanders has a number of assets to become a circular leader. We have:
A strongly embedded manufacturing industry
A built-up social economy that works well with it
Strong knowledge institutions
An extensive logistics network
A large number of civil initiatives and organisations committed to circular strategies
Broad network of waste collection and sorting
