1. Circular Economy at the World Economic Forum
Circular Economy and Fashion

2. Global trends are driving the transition to the circular economy
Resource constraints
Price volatility at an all time high and depleting reserves
Increasing demand
3bn new middle class consumers expected to enter the market by 2030
Environmental Degradation
Social awareness and discontent with negative environmental impacts is increasing
New type of consumer
Shift in consumer attitudes towards access over ownership
Shift in demographics
Steady increase in the number of people living in cities
Advances in technology
Innovations in information/industrial technologies
Mobilized government
Carbon, energy & waste regulation becoming more favourable of circular setups

3. The value generated by a circular economy can be huge
Materials Savings Potential
US$1 trillion/ year
Net Benefits
US$500 million within 5 years
Jobs Created
100’000 within 5 years
Avoided/ valorized materials waste
100 million tons within 5 years
Reduction in volume of products landfilled (EU)
80% for electronic and mobile devices
15% for motor vehicles and transport equipment
55% for machinery and equipment
Reduction of industrial CO2 emissions from production in the above sectors (EU)
45-65%

4. The circular economy aims to decouple economic growth from resource constraints

5. Global Plastic Flows are Mostly Linier
Accelerating CE: systems, platform, mutli-stakeholder
MainStream: Industry driven, material flows

6. This Brings a Number of Negative Externalities
Accelerating CE: systems, platform, mutli-stakeholder
MainStream: Industry driven, material flows

7. Report Recommendations
Improve after use economics
Moon-shot innovation challenges
Increase knowledge base
Work across all stakeholder groups
Accelerating CE: systems, platform, mutli-stakeholder
MainStream: Industry driven, material flows

8. Circular Business Models for Plastic 1
Circular Business Models for Plastic 1. Improve the after-use economics of plastics
Better collection systems
Common labelling
Common set of additives
Wide spread industry and stake-holder mobilization 8
Accelerating CE: systems, platform, mutli-stakeholder
MainStream: Industry driven, material flows

9. Circular Business Models for Plastic 2. Replace
Accelerating CE: systems, platform, mutli-stakeholder
MainStream: Industry driven, material flows

10. Circular Business Models for Plastic 3. Up-cycle
Accelerating CE: systems, platform, mutli-stakeholder
MainStream: Industry driven, material flows

11. Circular Business Models for Plastic 4. Take it out of the ocean
Accelerating CE: systems, platform, mutli-stakeholder
MainStream: Industry driven, material flows

12. Circular Business Models for Plastic 4.1Ocean plastic economics?
Accelerating CE: systems, platform, mutli-stakeholder
MainStream: Industry driven, material flows