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Let's Revolve
REVOLVE Circular is a non-profit organization based in Vienna, Austria. We advocate for a systemic transformation from a linear culture obsessed with economic growth towards a just and inclusive circular society. REVOLVE Circular showcases and empowers the transformation’s contours, ripples and clusters – and we aim to counterbalance the predominant reuse – reduce – recycle narrative by putting forward three other circular action imperatives:
Refuse. Reduce. Rethink.
REVOLVE Circular welcomes you as an individual or as an organization.
Support our work, become a member today and co-create a more circular and sustainable future with us.
The first-ever global “Circular Economy Perception Survey”
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Constructive Journalism
We call this the contours – we investigate and provide independent and constructive journalism on circularity.
Science Communication
These are the ripples: our research and our science communication projects generate them, only to grow bigger and bigger…
If you are interested in the science around the circular economy, get in touch.
Knowledge Brokerage
We conduct research and identify clusters as a knowledge and information broker. We dissect relevant from irrelevant circularity
information.
Our Members
Constructive Journalism
We investigate the insides and the contours of a circular economy and society.
Check out our reporting including features, interviews and more on circularity.
From EPR to UPR: why producer responsibility might need to be extended further
Scientists in the Netherlands have conducted research on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)…
Who is responsible for Latin America’s waste?
Packaging. Chemicals. Tires. These are just three kinds of waste that countries…
Una moda circular para América Latina
Desechamos sin considerar el impacto ambiental. En América Latina y el Caribe…
¿Quién es el responsable de los residuos de América Latina?
Envases. Productos químicos. Neumáticos. Estos son sólo tres tipos de residuos con…
Is a circular economy not enough?
In its thematic focus on a ‘Circular Society’, the German Hans Sauer…
Technology, economy, society: what do we need to achieve circularity?
Transitioning to a more circular economy increasingly seems a necessity, but what…
The Circular Economy: Societal Transformation or Economic Fairytale?
In recent years, the concept of the ‘Circular Economy’ has moved to…
In am Land wo so viele Berge stehn ischs hart über seine Grenzen raus zu gehn
Singt die wunderbare österreichisch-nigerianische Sängerin Nenda Neururer in ihrem Hit Mixed Feelings.…
Políticas para (más) circularidad
Debido al creciente protagonismo de la economía circular en el sector público…
Cómo una moneda digital impulsa el reciclaje en América Latina
Ecoins es una empresa con sede en Costa Rica dedicada al reciclaje…
Circular perspectives for linear mindsets
How did linear thinking succeed in dominating our mental infrastructure? What can…
Circular perspectives for linear mindsets: four innovative thinkers around the globe
How did linear thinking succeed in dominating our mental infrastructure? What can…
Circular economy: what’s in it for the media?
On 14 April 2021 REVOLVE Circular organized an online press briefing to…
Circular perspectives for linear mindsets
How did linear thinking succeed in dominating our mental infrastructure? What can…
Circular perspectives for linear mindsets: Interview with Doryn Negesa
How did linear thinking succeed in dominating our mental infrastructure? What can…
Circular perspectives for linear mindsets: Interview with Ashish Kothari
How did linear thinking succeed in dominating our mental infrastructure? What can…
Spotlight on circularity in Africa
Much of the Circular Economy debate focuses on highly industrialized countries, due…
Is circularity the solution to Africa's rapid urbanization?
2020 estimates project Africa to be the continent with the fastest urban…
Circularity and social inclusiveness for a different Africa
REVOLVE Circular got together with the eight current members of the ACEN…
How public finance supports Africa's circular transformation
REVOLVE Circular met up with Dr Anthony Nyong, Director of Climate Change…
Let’s REIMAGINE the global FASHION industry
An interview with Andrea Kennedy, Founder and Sustainability Lead of Fashiondex.com and…
Where readers select the circularity investigation
Circular Journalism on Demand is a REVOLVE Circular initiative with three pillars:
In pillar I we take stakeholder engagement seriously – and let our readers decide which circularity topics they want us to cover in 2022 and beyond. We propose 12 topics, and anyone interested can cast their vote by selecting up to four preferences. Following our readers’ choices, we will investigate the topic with the highest number at the end of each quarter while also replacing the topic with the least votes by one of our readers’ suggestions. We use SurveyHero.com to create our online surveys.
Pillar II will be launched at the end of February 2022 – it will offer companies and organizations around the world the opportunity to hire our reporters for their ‘circular journalism on demand’ topic; such reporting will be labelled as “sponsored” and not make any compromises on high quality constructive journalism. Are you ready?
Pillar III will be launched at the end of March 2022 – it will be for journalists only and create the first-ever network of circular economy, and circular society, journalists around the globe. Watch this space!
Science Communication
We encourage you to play around and explore the CRESTING timeline of circularity concepts
The Circular Economy is often referred to as – and increasingly recognized for – having a variety of concepts and so-called Schools of Thought (SoT) at its origin. One often finds reference to bio-mimicry, cradle-to-cradle, industrial ecology and in between six to twelve other SoTs in the literature.
Now guess what?!
There is far more to it: the EU-funded CRESTING project has already identified “over 70 circularity concepts from the Global South and North alike” and presents them in an interactive timeline. Its content is based on CRESTING’s extensive research, published as A typology of circular economy discourses: navigating the diverse visions of a contested paradigm.
REVOLVE Circular supports the CRESTING project’s fantastic exploration of the genesis of a circular economy – and society – and encourages you to play around with the timeline.
Keep learning about the circular economy and its origins!
Against the odds of a linear economy
The linear economy has revealed itself a dead end for humanity and the planet, and it is time for Circularity to take over, slowly but surely. Circularity will be the first-ever dramatic comedy against the odds of a linear economy, made in Nigeria. Circularity is also the name of the film’s main protagonist, a young Nigerian woman who thrives due to her circular mindset as she is fighting various battles against the numerous barriers established by the linear economy.
As a commercial social impact movie, Circularity will reach millions of people around the globe; it will entertain, and educate, its audiences about a different way of consuming, producing and living together. To produce Circularity, we collaborate with Lagos-based Verdant Zeal and Underdog Productions , and wish to express our gratitude for precious legal advice by Vavrovsky Heine Marth Rechtsanwälte.
The world is ready for the first-ever dramatic comedy against the odds of a linear economy – will you join us on this journey, support its production and help make it happen?
Knowledge Brokerage
Imagine Circularity – this is how we branded our first knowledge brokering and multistakeholder project. We are hoping to involve and collaborate with many partners around the world in this first-ever initiative on how people perceive the circular economy. Its main question is “How do you imagine a circular economy?” and we are pleased to collaborate with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development as scientific advisor and main partner.
The aim is to engage one million participants to produce a representative sample of their views and understandings. The survey will officially launch on 19 April 2021 and end on 19 April 2022. A global report and a series of customized reports on a large number and broad variety of audiences will be published in June 2022. We use SurveyHero.com to create our online surveys. They granted us a preferential non-profit rate enabling a truly global survey in potentially over sixty languages; in addition, the survey can be customized and extended to our partners’ specific needs.
Visit Imagine Circularity to get involved.
EU-Funded Projects
In addition to co-creating and implementing projects with REVOLVE Circular’s members, REVOLVE leads the branding, communication and reporting for numerous EU-funded research and innovation projects on the circular economy.
Large Industrial Solutions
A Circular Economy Solution for Industrial Wastewater. Recuperating industrial wastewater (brine) to extract the minerals and chemicals in order to reinsert them into respective industries that can use them in their markets, thus closing the loop of the circular economy in the water treatment sector.
Cities & Regions Solutions
The HOOP project supports 8 lighthouse cities and regions in developing large-scale urban circular bioeconomy initiatives that will focus on sustainably obtaining bio-based products from urban biowaste and wastewater. The HOOP Urban Circular Bioeconomy Hub will create an online platform to foster knowledge exchange and replication in cities.
Walking the Talk: Go Circular!
As part of our circular economy actions REVOLVE has a zero waste sustainability policy and contributes to the circular economy with its repurposing program and with its special repurposing series.
Repurposing
Discover how REVOLVE participates
in the circular economy
Small is beautiful
Discover other companies that are reusing
old materials to make new products.