Check out the Newest ETC/CE Reports on Reusable Packaging, Textiles, and a Just Transition to Circular Economy! Circular economy practices are being adopted across many value chains. Three recent reports by the European Environment Agency Topic Centre on Circuar Economy (ETC-CE) examine the textiles and plastics sectors (two of the most polluting industries) and explore how the transition to a circular economy can be achieved in a socially fair way. Achieving global circular production and consumption will require profound changes across value chains in all industries. These three reports explore what this transformation entails, focusing on sectors where circularity is urgently needed and examining how fairness can guide the shift. The report “Textiles and the environment – the role of digital technologies in Europe’s circular economy” updates key datasets and insights, including the latest developments in European textile production, consumption patterns, trade flows, exports of used textiles, and related environmental impact estimates. Looking into the future, the authors map current and emerging digital solutions and examine how they could transform the design, production, and servicing of clothing and other textile products. The report “Reusable takeaway packaging for food and drinks – scalability of systems towards circularity in Europe” analyses a sector where circular practices are already being tested. Focusing on plastics, the report explores how far reusable food and beverage container systems have come, and identifies the main obstacles and possibilities for expanding them. To do so, the ETC-CE researchers located and interviewed businesses and projects in eight European countries whose core activities center on different parts of the reusable packaging value chain. In the report “A Just Transition to Circular Economy”, the authors bring forward a justice-oriented circular economy framework, emphasizing the need to consider participation, fairness, and the distribution of benefits and burdens in a circular economy. The report also examines the justice aspects of transitioning to a circular economy across the battery, textile, and plastics value chains. Got to our library to download all three reports! For further questions, please contact Livia El-Khawad.