Circular economy is something is an abstract concept so here are five real world examples of CE projects in Taiwan.

The News Lens
Date: 2018/03/16
By: Nate Maynard

Credit: Ice Spring

Popsicles made from food waste, furniture repair, tool sharing, and computer recycling. The initiatives and strategies that build a circular economy vary greatly. Yet nobody seems to have a list of these projects. Did you know that Taiwan has well over 150 circular economy initiatives? We didn’t either until we helped organize a circular mapping event for the Circular Economy Club.

How do you easily share a tool to your neighbor, or purchase a responsibly made product? Last month, Green Drinks Taipei as part of the Circular Economy Club’s Mapping Week brought together a group of CE innovators from across Taiwan to put these initiatives literally on the map. What’s Green Drinks you ask? It’s an international environmental meetup group. myself and two colleagues (Martin Su and Rouyu Wu) have hosted monthly meetups in Taipei for nearly two and a half years.

The Circular Economy Club (CEC) is a non-profit network of over 2,600 CE professionals and organizations across 60 countries. In their own words “One of the challenges in implementing the circular economy framework is understanding what circularity means in practice, what is already working and what is not. The Mapping Week helps solve this challenge by gathering as many circular initiatives as possible in an open online directory.” With Taiwan focusing on the CE as a development area, we wanted to see just how many initiatives we could find.    [FULL  STORY]