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?
A shop where you can find everything and pay for nothing? It exists. At Circularium, a site around innovation and circular production covering more than 2 hectares in Anderlecht. How the shop works? You bring in your stuff there that you no longer use. See something you can use yourself? You take that in for free.
A shop full of used and worn items
Did you know that throughout Belgium there are 42 million unused household appliances in cupboards that still work perfectly? Reason enough for the initiators to open a shop where you can bring in and pick up all kinds of used and worn items. A sewing machine, a T-shirt, kitchen utensils... The Free Shop will accept all your things, as long as they are not broken, dirty, incomplete, dangerous or liable to spoil.
Up to 200 customers a day
"De Gratis Winkel was started as a neighbourhood initiative to raise awareness among local residents about circular economy," says Gerd De Wilde, initiator of De Gratis Winkel. "In the beginning, we worked with notes. The donor could leave a note for the future owner, and he in turn could write a thank-you note. But with the success the shop is having, this is no longer feasible. Every day, an average of 120 kilograms of items come in and 180 to 200 people come to collect items."
"We do limit the number of items you can take as a customer to one per day. Only for books and clothes do we make an exception. We get those in so much that people are allowed to take a few items at a time. So at three years, the Free Shop has become a cosy place where you meet a wide variety of people, question your way of consuming and put the circular economy into practice."
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