The Circ@Home project promotes urban circularity by encouraging households, municipalities and circularity service providers to adopt sustainable practices and minimise their environmental impact.
Project summary
Circ@Home aims to promote circularity at three interconnected levels: the Town-Home-Service triangle. This Urban Circular Triangle approach focuses on municipalities, the public and private services within them, and, most importantly, individual households.
By linking these three points, Circ@Home shows how they can work together to strengthen circular practices: adopting sustainable solutions, shifting lifestyles, and positively influencing one another.
However, driving these behavioral changes is challenging. It requires:
- Clear and practical solution options
- Flexibility to apply these solutions in different situations
- Strong, active connections between households, municipalities, and services
Partial solutions aren’t enough. That is why Circ@Home will prototype solutions and test them in real-life pilot projects across different settings. These pilots will address both food and non-food products and will improve circularity through the 10 R-strategies such as reduce, reuse, recycle, and repair.
The three year project has started March 2025 and it will last until February 2028.
For more information on the large-scale Circ@Home project is available at website: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/circhome
The theme of the Lahti pilot
The Lahti pilot focuses on household smart devices, aiming to apply the fourth level of the waste hierarchy by promoting repair practices that extend device lifespan and help cut down on waste.
Smart & Lean Hub Oy is the Circ@Home consortium partner responsible for the design and implementation of the Lahti pilot. The associated partner is the City of Lahti.
Acknowledgement
The main objective of the Circ@Home project is to promote urban circularity by encouraging households, municipalities and circularity service providers to adopt sustainable practices and minimise their environmental impact in the Baltic Sea Region. The Circ@Home project is co-funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.
Urban Circular Triangle
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