Combined interventions

Individual interventions along a range of platforms have a limited impact on the Circularity Metric and the material footprint, but when we combine the interventions we see a substantial impact.

In our broad ‘what-if’ image for the economy, if we harness the cross-intervention synergies, Sweden reaches a Circularity Metric of 7.6% (including extractive waste) (9.9% excluding extractive waste) and the material footprint is lowered by a remarkable 42.6%, from 257.5 million tonnes to merely 148 million tonnes.

When combining the interventions, it is crucial to be aware of potential overlaps across the different interventions. In particular, the scenarios on repair, recycling, as well as fossil resource consumption, are applied across sectors, thereby also influencing the industry specific interventions on construction and agriculture. Therefore, we prioritise interventions according to principles of the circular economy. We begin with strategies that aim to reduce inputs, secondly applying repair and reuse focused scenarios and only lastly applying those focused on recycling.