Visando a 100% de circularidade: Amsterdã
A cidade de Amsterdã estabeleceu para se própria a meta de se tornar uma cidade totalmente circular até 2050.
Agenda de Implementação 2023-2026
A <anchor>Agenda de Implementação 2023-2026</anchor> contém mais de 70 atividades que o município desenvolverá em conjunto com a cidade nos próximos quatro anos. O município trabalha em conjunto com empresários, iniciativas sociais e moradores. Mais de 14 milhões de euros foram alocados para essa cooperação. Serão usados 3,5 milhões de euros para a mudança de sistema necessária que o município deve organizar para que as empresas possam começar a trabalhar de forma circular. O foco está sendo colocado nos bens de consumo, no ambiente construído e nos fluxos de alimentos e resíduos orgânicos.
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# Policy: Circular economy

Amsterdam is a beautiful city to live, work and visit. A healthy, prosperous, green and sustainable city for everyone. To maintain this, Amsterdam is becoming a circular city, where we do not waste valuable resources and raw materials.

The strategy aims to significantly reduce the use of new raw materials and resources, contributing to a sustainable city. In the coming years, the City will map various material flows, from entry to processing, in order to preserve precious raw materials. The aim is to halve the use of new raw materials by 2030, and achieve a fully circular city by 2050.

### Amsterdam Implementation Agenda 2023-2026

The Implementation Agenda (PDF, 9,7 MB) sets out more than 70 actions that the City of Amsterdam will plan and carry out in the coming 4 years in partnership with all Amsterdammers. The City will work with entrepreneurs, social initiatives and residents. More than € 14 million has been earmarked for this purpose. € 3.5 million will be used for the necessary system change that the City has to organise so that companies can start working in a circular way. The City is focusing on consumer goods, the built environment and food and organic waste streams.

### What is a circular economy?

In a circular economy we reuse raw and other materials over and over again. That way we avoid waste and close the cycles. We learn to do more with less. In a circular economy, the value of raw materials is retained as much as possible throughout a product’s lifecycle, from design to disposal. A ladder of circularity has been designed for this purpose, showing which processing options are preferable to others. For example:

- refuse, rethink, reduce relate to the changing use and design of products. Examples are avoiding the use of plastic cups, sharing cars and producing the same products with fewer raw materials.

- reuse, repair, refurbish, remanufacture relate to the use phase of products. These are aimed at prolonging the lifecycle as much as possible. Second-hand stores and repair centres play a role here

- repurpose, recycle, recover  cover the end of a product’s life: components can be repurposed, while materials can be recycled and, as a last option, incinerated with energy recovery.

### What does the strategy involve?

As the City of Amsterdam, we are focusing on 3 value chains:

### Food and organic waste streams

Ambition 1: Short food chains provide a robust sustainable food system

Ambition 2: Healthy and sustainable food for the people of Amsterdam

Ambition 3: High-quality processing of organic waste streams

### Consumer goods

Ambition 1: The City sets the right example by reducing its consumption

Ambition 2: Using what we have more sparingly

Ambition 3: Amsterdam makes the most of discarded products

### Built environment

Ambition 1: The transition to circular development requires a joint effort

Ambition 2: The City sets the right example by formulating circular criteria

Ambition 3: A circular approach to the existing city

### Amsterdam City Doughnut

In the strategy we use the Amsterdam City Doughnut (PDF, 3,4 MB) of the British economist Kate Raworth. The model describes how societies and businesses can contribute to economic development while still respecting the limits of the planet and our society.

### Who does what?

Amsterdam cannot do this alone and fortunately it doesn’t have to. The Dutch government and the European Union also have circular ambitions. We work with the central government and with Europe on policy choices to make the world cleaner and society more equitable. For example, a shift from taxation on labour to taxation on raw materials and energy is an important precondition for creating a circular economy. In the city we are now working with the 7 city districts and with many local initiatives, market parties, knowledge institutions and residents.

### Measure our progress

To find out whether Amsterdam is on the right track, we are going to measure our progress. We are developing a Monitor (PDF, 22 MB) with which we can determine the social and ecological impact of the transition.  The Monitor charts the extent to which Amsterdam’s economy has become circular and identifies areas in which more needs to be done. The Monitor will enable us to measure whether our goals of halving the use of primary raw materials by 2030 and becoming 100% circular by 2050 are feasible.

### Lessons and recommendations Circular Strategy 2020 - 2021

Check out the key lessons and recommendations we learned from the 2020 - 2021 circular strategy.

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