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CIRCULAR GLASGOW
CALLING GLASGOW BUSINESSES TO HELP LEAD CIRCULAR EVENTS
Mogwai’s “The last straw for waste to landfill’ concert at the SSE Hydro. Image courtesy of Brian Sweeney
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hree circular solutions – developed by more than 60 people from 13 countries across the world – are set
to help transform Glasgow’s thriving events industry. Circular Glasgow, a joint initiative from
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Zero Waste Scotland, has announced the winning solutions to the first city-based challenge hosted on Circle Lab. Also partnered by Scottish Event Campus and the Glasgow Convention Bureau and Major Events team at Glasgow Life, the challenge asked citizens and companies from cities across the world how local businesses could improve the economic, environmental and social legacy of major city events and conferences. The three winning ideas include a deposit-based reuse system for food and drink containers; circular designs for event marketing and branding, and a scheme that will repurpose organic waste into energy and fertilisers. Circular Glasgow is delighted that the SEC has pledged to continue its support, acting as lead incubation partner in piloting the implementation of the winning solutions.
An open invitation is now being made to city venues, SMEs, entrepreneurs, consultants and investors that are interested in collaborating and sharing relevant expertise to ensure these solutions are successfully implemented. The winning solutions evolved from a month-long online crowdsourcing effort, culminating in ten solutions that helped to envision what a truly circular events space could look like. Circle Lab, an online platform supported by eBay Foundation and developed by Circle Economy, is designed to engage and educate a global community to solve universal challenges with circular solutions. The next phase of the challenge
now aims to translate the open source concepts that emerged from Circle Lab into actionable and measurable pilot projects.
Alison McRae, Senior Director of
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, said: “Glasgow is world renowned for its major events, and this Circle Lab challenge has generated a number of solutions on a global platform, which can benefit our business community. They are about introducing new ways
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of doing business – with potential to give a real competitive advantage – and are also better for our city. Alongside the SEC, we are inviting businesses who are involved in, or benefit from, events and conferences in the city to come forward and take advantage of these open-source ideas. The pace of change is daily and there is a real opportunity for Glasgow to lead the way on this.” The next phase of the challenge is a unique opportunity for other venues and SMEs with expertise in this field to come forward and position themselves as front-runners, on a global stage, in the field of the circular economy by contributing to the incubation process. Depending on the outcome, teams working on solution- based pilot projects will have the opportunity to showcase their work at the Circular Economy Scotland Hotspot 2018 – which more than 300 of the world’s leading decision- makers, trade representatives, investors and circular economy entrepreneurs are expected to attend. The interaction between local and global communities that the Circle Lab platform affords will continue throughout the incubation phase and will enable all participants, both in person and online, to benefit from global insights and to engage with and support local stakeholders in the process.
TO GET INVOLVED, CONTACT THE CIRCULAR GLASGOW TEAM AT CIRCULARGLASGOW@ GLASGOWCHAMBEROFCOMMERCE. COM OR VISIT THE WEBSITE
WWW.CIRCULARGLASGOW.COM
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