Reaching across our cities into regional and rural Tasmania, through community, business, industry, and technology, we believe we can create new conversations and collaborations that can build a circular economy that defines who we aspire to be and which is the envy of others.
Using our size, scale, and building on our natural assets, social infrastructure (spaces, places, projects, programs) and social capital (networks and relationships), we believe we can work together and create new ways to use and share our resources and reshape the way our economy works.
A healthy economy for all!
Dream it.
Changing the world is not simple – it takes thought, time, persistence, and insight to build advantages for Tasmania through a circular economy ... but most of all it takes something extraordinary. It requires us to come up with new ways to do things, work together, and build a shared journey of change.
Done well, a circular economy offers a comprehensive response to climate change and provides additional benefits such as distributing value more widely in the economy and spurring social enterprise innovation.
Build it.
A circular economy is designed to work in such a way that enables people and communities to provide for their social, economic, and cultural well-being whilst sustaining, safeguarding, avoiding, remedying, or mitigating any adverse effects on the environment.
With the right State Policy framework and collaboration, a circular economy enhances sustainable development of natural and physical resources, encourages public involvement in resource management and planning, facilitates economic development, and promotes a shared responsibility for resource management and planning between different spheres of government, the community and industry within the State.
Grow it.
To create change, we need to move beyond current investments in waste management, processing, and national product stewardship schemes, to find ways to divert waste from landfill, recover resources, and move towards a circular economy.
This is an important shift away from ‘take, make, use, and dispose’ to a more circular approach where the value of resources is maintained for as long as possible - as you can see from the diagrams below.
The 2018 National Waste Policy recognises that a shift to the circular economy is happening across the globe, including the European Union, Canada, and Australia’s major trading partners.
Rethinking progress
Explaining the circular economy and how society can rethink progress is an animated video essay from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Re-Thinking Progress' explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works - designing products that can be 'made to be made again' and powering the system with renewable energy. It questions whether with creativity and innovation we can build a restorative economy.
