Rethinking Resources

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Transitioning from a linear to a circular economy

To reduce waste across the Estate, we have taken our waste management operations in-house, ensuring that, where possible, waste travels by boat rather than trucks. We have sent zero waste to landfill from managed areas since 2009 and we’re taking steps to reduce waste sent to landfill from our construction waste too.

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As part of our ambition to move ‘Beyond Zero Waste’, we have continued to evolve our approach to circularity. Circularity is about keeping resources in use for as long as possible, delivering the highest value they can. So rather than making, using, and then throwing products or materials away (a linear system), a circular system looks at each of those stages for new ways of cycling materials and value back into the system – using materials and products again and again, in many different forms.

Net Zero Carbon Pathway

Our Vision

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To become a fully circular neighbourhood

With a long-term vision to be a fully circular neighbourhood, we have undertaken a circular economy baseline exercise, incorporating construction and management activities.

Our vision to be a fully circular neighbourhood includes:

Building Circular – embedding circularity into the provision of the buildings and physical infrastructure and ensuring their design supports circularity in use and whole-life costing.

Working Circular – embedding circularity into the management and operation of commercial, residential and retail spaces within the public realm.

Living Circular – enabling and encouraging residents and visitors to embed circularity into their lives.

Read our full Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) from page 14 onwards within our Sustainability Report.

Download Sustainability Report 2022

Circular Economy Action Plan

Operational Waste Strategy

Our Impact

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