Circular City Ports - Lessons Learned

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01 We need a more comprehensive understanding of the many practices and innovations linked to circularity. 01 We need a more comprehensive understanding of the many practices and innovations linked to circularity.
01 17 ● There are not yet clear definitions of all aspects related to circularity. ● Circularity needs to be business driven, and not only be a political question. There is not one way to be circular. Circularity and circular economy are often perceived solely as the recycling of materials. However, it goes farther than that. Circularity is already happening inside the ports. On each scale many projects and initiatives take place, using and developing different strategies and innovative ways to start-up a more circular process. In order to start up a productive dialogue between the different stakeholders to further circularity, a better understanding of the diverse circularity approaches and of their dominant framings is needed. Circularity can result in very different futures, and we should acknowledge this heterogeneity and the value frameworks sustaining them. ● Circularity asks for innovation, and triggers the development of new skills and jobs. Our capacity to further circularity will depend on innovations in the provision of more-effective products, processes, services, technologies, or business models. News skills will be developed, and new jobs will be required to adopt them. At the City Port level, understanding this change might help to accelerate the adoption (or modification) of circular processes, and their practical implementation. The primary focus of circular economy is on the systemic redesign of our modern industrial system. This requires a real paradigm shift that cannot be achieved in isolation. ● Everybody is inventing the ‘circular wheel’ while the questions and challenges linked to circularity are common to many companies, ports and cities. Knowledge of all the aspects related to circularity is not openly shared. The lack of a platform from where this knowledge could be shared is preventing the system from fully transforming it. Many ports, cities, regions, villages and companies deal with the same issues and possibilities, and some of them know already how to handle them. On the other hand, there isn’t a single way to be circular, and this way surely surpasses the mere material recycling to move into a redefined industrial system, operating within planetary boundaries and vigilant of everyone’s welfare. The challenge it to share these innovations while staying true to the wide range of circular framings. ● The win-win of circularity is not yet clear to companies. Currently the benefits of circularity inside businesses are not yet counted inside the business models and plans. To convince the companies to invest in circular innovations and in collaborations, they need to be made aware of the advantages that come with these investments. There should be a clear view on the return of this investment and on the gain on other levels: reduction of energy costs, less production or material costs, creation of new jobs… Implementing circularity inside business models should be seen as a must-do for each company, and not something that has been unwillingly imposed by higher authorities. The beneficial side of circularity should be investigated and shared in order achieve this shift.
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Page 11 and 12: Explorative trajectory 'Circular Ci
Page 14 and 15: Looking at the City Port as a start
Page 16 and 17: On site at Eilandje 2.0 in Antwerp
Page 20 and 21: 01 Imagining new jobs in the Rotter
Page 22 and 23: 02 Port authorities need to rethink
Page 24 and 25: 02 Criteria for concessions Survey
Page 26 and 27: 03 To build up a system of circular
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Page 30 and 31: 04 The current obstacle of data sha
Page 32 and 33: 04 Overview of the material flows o
Page 34 and 35: 05 A significant shift in the regul
Page 36 and 37: 05 Providing a framework and space
Page 38 and 39: 06 The programming of infrastructur
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Page 42 and 43: 07 A circular port relies on the ex
Page 44 and 45: 07 Spatial framework as underlayer
Page 46 and 47: 08 The transition towards more circ
Page 48 and 49: 08 Charter ‘Innovative City Port
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