ReLondon

📢 BIG NEWS! Today we’re excited to share ReLondon's first ever impact report - packed full of evidence for the positive impact we had during the 2022-23 financial year, as well as case studies showing how we're helping to accelerate the transition to a low carbon circular economy in London. We examine our impact with London’s local authorities, businesses, and citizens; and we showcase work done in our some of our focus areas, which are food, textiles, plastics, electricals and electronics, and the built environment. Some key highlights include: ♻ 83% of local authorities who engaged with our work saying that we've helped enhance their knowledge and competencies to take actions to embed circular practices 📈 Supporting 119 businesses to adopt or scale viable and attractive circular business models across London, helping create 225 circular jobs among those businesses 🙌 80% of Londoners who saw our 'Be that person' campaign saying that they had been recycling more in the past six months, compared to only 54% of those who hadn't seen the campaign. ... and much more! Download the report here ➡ www.relondon.gov.uk/impact #circulareconomy

Today is our least favourite day of the year - it's #EarthOvershootDay, the date when humanity’s demand on natural resources surpasses Earth’s capacity to regenerate them for the given year. 😱 Source: https://zurl.co/mD5n Essentially this means we're using nature 1.7 times faster than our planet’s ecosystems can regenerate - i.e. we need 1.7 Earths to keep up with our current consumption habits. Clearly something has to change! At ReLondon, our citizen engagement work aims to encourage Londoners to adopt more sustainable behaviours, such as buying and wasting less stuff, and reusing, repairing, sharing, renting and recycling more. But we continually come up against numerous barriers in this work - not least the concern that we're 'telling people how to live their lives' - but also because we're competing against corporate brands' large marketing budgets that promote overconsumption on a daily basis. 📃 We explore these barriers further in our latest article and explain why we need to better fund behaviour change work to challenge overconsumption and tackle the climate emergency. Have a read here ➡ https://zurl.co/8cdu We'll be talking about all of this in much more depth at our upcoming webinar: 'How to talk about consumption, without talking about consumption' on Tuesday 13th August, 2-3pm (BST). 📅 Register here ➡ https://zurl.co/QaLC #MoveTheDate #sustainability #sustainableconsumption #circulareconomy #circularity #zerowaste #zerowasteeconomy

📣 There's just two months to go until #CEweek2024 kicks off! Are you a circular economy change-maker? Here's why you should get involved: Taking part in Circular Economy Week offers the opportunity to showcase the work you and your organisation are doing to become more circular. Here's how you can take part: ♻ Host your own online, in-person or hybrid event and put your business on the circular economy map. ♻ Sign up as a sponsor or supporter and gain recognition as a leading circular economy advocate and practitioner. ♻ Attend events and connect with like-minded professionals, organisations and associations accelerating the transition to a circular economy. Want to learn more? 👉 Download the partner pack at the CE Week site: https://zurl.co/Kt89 #circulareconomy #circularcities

📢 Mark your diaries! Registrations are now open for our next webinar: How to talk about consumption without talking about consumption. Join us as we explore the trepidation of many in the policy sphere around talking about consumption – how we consume ‘stuff’, including food, and how we ask citizens to consume less or differently. Our expert panel will discuss research about people’s relationship with consumption and sustainability; and give examples of communications and campaigns that have done it well (or not so well). We'll delve into the barriers around talking about consumption – for policymakers, businesses, communities, individuals – and discuss what needs to change to help engage citizens more effectively and motivate behaviour change towards more sustainable lifestyles at the pace and scale needed to help tackle the climate emergency. Speakers: - Ali Moore - Head of communications and behaviour change, ReLondon (Chair) - Dan Bennett - Consulting Partner & UK Lead, Behavioural Science, Ogilvy - Laura Costello - Head of Sustainability & Planet Services, THINKHOUSE - Oliver Pattenden - Global Research & Insight Director, The Sustainability Studio, Accenture Song - Poppy Mason-Watts - Chief Growth/Impact Officer, WaterBear Network 📅 Tuesday 13th August | 2:00-3:00pm BST 🖱 Register here ➡ https://lnkd.in/epwPm-5Z 💻 See you there! #circulareconomy #consumption #sustainablelifestyle #behaviourchange #campaigns

📣 New article: We need to fund behaviour change to tackle the climate emergency. Our CEO, Wayne Hubbard FCIWM, and head of communications and behaviour change, Ali Moore, argue that it’s time to channel investment into behaviour change, which will support people’s move towards more zero-waste lifestyles that benefit people and planet. 📰 Read the full article at Circular Online: https://lnkd.in/dWGK_rCq #behaviourchange #consumption #zerowaste #circulareconomy #OvershootDay

Join London Councils webinar this afternoon at 3pm to discover how London's is not only tracking, but actively reducing its consumption-based emissions, and setting a benchmark in climate leadership. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/d6TsKQZm

We're thrilled to be nominated for the 2024 LARAC Celebration Awards! Our circular neighbourhood project, Heston in the Loop, is up for the circular achievement award. 🎉 Delivered in partnership with London Borough of Hounslow and championed by London Councils OWL programme, Heston in the Loop was a demonstrator circular economy neighbourhood that introduced circular solutions to empower individuals and the community in the Heston area to waste less and reuse, repair, share and recycle more. Congratulations to our fellow nominees - we're looking forward to celebrating at the ceremony in October! See full shortlist here: https://lnkd.in/eDKjwxzD Learn more about Heston in the Loop here: https://lnkd.in/ewkwA8ry

⏱ Just 2 days to go for Southwark's high street businesses to apply for a grant of up to £5,000 to trial new 'beyond waste' activities. If you live or work in Southwark and/or know a Southwark-based business that's keen to improve their environmental impact while strengthening their business, make sure to let them know! Apply here by 24th July at 11am ➡ https://lnkd.in/ec4ZZdMC #zerowaste #zerowasteeconomy #circulareconomy #Southwark

Many congratulations to Cllr Mete Coban MBE on his appointment to this vital role to keep up London's great work on climate and the environment. We're looking forward to working with him to accelerate London's transition to a low carbon circular economy.

We're so excited to see our pioneering friends at Library of Things are growing! Check out this exciting role to help grow Library of Things' new licensing business and join the team as co-CEO 👉 https://zurl.co/vr8k Advertising job opportunities on our circular jobs board is an exclusive benefit for our circular SME community, alongside gaining access to partnership and funding opportunities and our business transformation team’s circular economy and business expertise. Are you also a small-and-mighty business developing solutions to revolutionise London's relationship with stuff? Then join Library of Things and other like-minded peers in being part of ReLondon's circular SME community, and benefit from ReLondon's support and amplification. Apply here to join our growing community of SMEs making London a low carbon, circular city : https://zurl.co/1yhm #circularsme #circularjobs #circularopportunities #circularbusiness #circularity #circulareconomy