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A widely used metric for assessing how effectively materials are kept in use across a product's life cycle. Single score from 0% (linear) to 100% (fully circular).

A weekly reflection on circular economy, leadership and the human side of systems change.

Green success stories, industry trends, jobs and top events. Free weekly delivery to inbox.

A simple exercise to track what is being thrown away, given away, or left unused, noting what it was, how much, and what it cost. Builds a baseline before any strategy.

Understand systemic drivers and disruptive trends for circular economy. Explore approaches to assess sustainability and circularity, analyse circular business strategies, design your own innovation journey, and evaluate readiness.

Covers linear economy effects, circular opportunities, practical tools like Circularity Compass and Value Hill, circular models such as Product-as-a-Service and Sharing, plus real-world case studies.

A course on measuring and assessing key performance indicators in circular economy efforts.

A 1-hour webinar offering a concise introduction to circular economy by a Swedish expert with more than 20 years of experience in the field.

Join a regional network of businesses, organisations and professionals across the Western Balkans, with monthly members meetings and exclusive offers.

North Macedonia's circular economy priorities, opportunities and strategic direction with practical insights for aligning a company with the transition.

Identifies the most critical challenges companies face when transitioning to service-based business models, and proposes a method for succeeding.

An introduction to circular economy with emphasis on application in small and medium enterprises. In Serbian and accessible to Macedonian audiences.

An accessible overview of the circular economy policies a manufacturer exporting to the EU needs to know about.

Helps marketers navigate the challenges and opportunities of shifting to a circular economy and use it as a brand-value lever.

Current state of textile waste management in North Macedonia, including challenges, opportunities for recycling and reuse, and upcoming policy obligations.

Explains how AI can offer substantial improvements in product design, operations, and infrastructure optimisation as part of the circular transition.

A book for business owners who want to understand and apply circular economy principles through specific business models.

A suite of canvases for audit, ideation, stakeholder engagement and KPI tracking across multiple circular economy use cases.

A strong first read before exploring deeper design tools.

Helps reinforce the brand through a circular innovation strategy and find the right messaging.

Helps a team think about how products and materials can flow back into useful cycles instead of becoming waste.

Helps a design team make smarter material choices by asking the right questions about product inputs and system impact.

A workshop worksheet that guides a design team through redesigning a product around safe and circular criteria.

A platform for maximising profit per unit of time, giving manufacturing leaders full operational visibility and a free on-site assessment option.

Beginner-level understanding of circular economy, its history, benefits and the shift away from the linear model, including Western Balkans case studies.

A leading free tool for simplified life cycle assessment used by SMEs, universities and consultants.

A useful goal-setting framework that identifies five universal policy goals a company can adapt as a starting structure for SMART targets.

A credible business-led framework for measuring circularity at company level, closely aligned with ISO 59020 and ESRS E5.

An accessible institutional explainer in plain language, useful as a first reading to share with employees who are new to circular economy.

ESRS E5 covers circular economy under EU sustainability reporting and will increasingly shape customer data requests for exporters to the EU.

International standards covering circular economy terminology, frameworks, measurement, assessment and transition guidance.

A searchable case study database of circular economy good practices by sector, topic and region.

Free, hour-long expert sessions on practical circular topics that work well as ready-made training material for team meetings.

A regional Western Balkans initiative collecting 100 leading company examples that have successfully implemented circular solutions.

Introduces ESPR, which entered into force in July 2024 and will set circular design requirements for almost all products sold in the EU.

Identifies which product categories the EU is regulating first under ESPR so companies can align design improvements with the timelines.

Explains DPP requirements for many product categories under ESPR, including structured data on materials, repair, end-of-life and supply chain.

A widely used recyclability evaluation methodology for plastic packaging and components in Europe.

A sectoral agenda for the plastics industry covering circular targets, regulatory direction and business priorities to 2030.

A filterable collection of toolkits, articles, case studies and reports on circular fashion for textile manufacturers.

A filterable collection of toolkits, articles, case studies and reports on circular plastics.

Sedex and EcoVadis are widely used third-party supplier sustainability assessment platforms.

An international standard for energy management that provides a structured way to set targets, monitor performance, and drive continuous improvement.

The EU's mandatory reporting standards covering climate, pollution, water and resource use in operational sustainability reporting.

Introduces PPWR, which entered into force in February 2025 and affects every manufacturer handling packaging.

An accessible introduction to circular business models with concrete examples, useful when starting to explore alternatives to outright product sales.

The strategic EU document driving much of the regulation a Macedonian manufacturer exporting to the EU will encounter.

Helps organisations rethink business models or projects and create long-lasting impacts through systems thinking.

A tool to analyse a company's market or industry and gather key information about resources, end users, competitors, technologies and policy to identify new opportunities.

The official EU portal covering CBAM regulation text, guidance, default values and verification rules. Steel, iron and aluminium are in scope from 1 January 2026.

A European union of associations representing craft enterprises and SMEs in the metalworking industry, with practical guidance and sector developments.

Lists materials with high supply risk relevant to metalworking and sets EU benchmarks for sourcing, processing and recycling.

Resources on circular economy in steel including scrap, EAF, embedded carbon, environmental product declarations and decarbonisation pathways.

Resources on circular aluminium including recycled content, scrap collection, aluminium and CBAM, and low-carbon aluminium products.

A global multi-stakeholder standard for responsible steel production covering ESG, recycled content, embedded carbon and chain of custody.

An introduction to standard metal product certificates used to declare chemical composition, mechanical properties and recycled content.

The textile sector's leading chemistry framework used by major EU brand customers to identify substances that should not be used in textile manufacturing.

The EU's framework strategy for the textile sector, covering ESPR for textiles, Digital Product Passport, recycled content thresholds, destruction bans and extended producer responsibility.

An authorised collective operator under Macedonian law for textile take-back, collection and recycling obligations.

An authorised collective operator under textile waste rules for take-back and recovery, positioned as an alternative to Тексомак.

A leading textile certification framework covering sustainable production, traceability and chemical safety, often required by EU buyers.

Certifies products containing recycled materials and verifies recycled content, chain of custody, social and environmental practices and chemical restrictions.

Explains the ESPR-related ban on destruction of unsold consumer textiles for large companies from July 2026 and medium-sized companies from July 2030.

An industry-standard sustainability self-assessment for textile, apparel and footwear used widely by EU buyers.

Guidance, position papers and sector data on circular plastics, recycled content and regulation from the European plastics industry association.

An industry programme to prevent plastic pellet loss during handling, transport and storage, with free guidance, self-assessment and certification pathways.

Certifies traceability and content of post-consumer recycled plastic and supports verified compliance with the EU PPWR.

A leading certification for circular and bio-based plastics, including chemically recycled feedstock, with mass-balance methodology.

Explains the EU directive restricting specific single-use plastic products and its sector impact since 2021.

The main authorised collective operator for packaging waste, including plastic packaging, under Macedonian extended producer responsibility rules.

Provides European recycling capacity by polymer, regional infrastructure, technology readiness and quality standards for plastics converters planning significant PCR use.

The European Commission's free online tool for estimating how much electricity a rooftop solar installation would generate month by month.

A structured, step-by-step EU environmental management scheme for tracking and improving energy, water and waste performance, designed to be achievable for SMEs.

A short animated video by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation explaining in plain visual language what circular economy is and why it matters.

An open-access global library of circular economy case studies where any company can publish its own experience for free.

A practical platform for DPP-ready supply chains that collects verified sustainability data, automates mass balance bookkeeping, and generates ESPR-compliant digital product passports.

A step-by-step guide to identifying and implementing industrial symbiosis, where one company's by-product or waste becomes another's raw material input.

Official European Commission context on the EU Plastics Strategy and its goals for reusable or recyclable packaging, reduced plastic waste and lower reliance on single-use plastics.

The official database maintained by ECHA listing substances subject to authorisation or restriction under EU REACH regulation.

An EU voluntary commitment platform for plastics circularity that opens doors for policy engagement and partnership opportunities.

A European association for non-ferrous metals producers, transformers and recyclers that publishes practical guidance on recycled content, scrap quality, CBAM and circular transition issues.

A German resource efficiency centre offering practice-oriented checks for metalworking processes plus calculators for material flow cost and investment payback analysis.

A detailed study on DPP implementation for textiles, covering data requirements, infrastructure, supply chain implications and timeline.

A filterable collection of toolkits, reports, case studies and frameworks on circular economy in fashion and textiles.