Environment, the Italian Atlas of the circular economy is born, Ministry of Environment
On 5 December 2017, in Rome, the Italian Atlas of the Circular Economy was presented, an interactive map continuously updated, which collects Italian experiences of circular economy, in order to make them known and usable free of charge to citizens and to promote collaboration and the construction of “circular” supply chains among economic actors that orient their activities to principles of sustainability and circularity. At each point on the map corresponds a card that summarizes the history and characteristics of the individual realities.
The Italian Atlas of the Circular Economy is an interactive web platform that records and recounts the experiences of the economic and associative realities engaged in applying, in Italy, the principles of the circular economy. It is a tool for sensitization, information and documentation aimed at all those who care about the balance between economy and ecology and who wish to direct their consumption responsibly.
Among the objectives of the Atlas there is the networking of businesses and associations that can connect to each other and increase potential synergies and their visibility.
Browsing between regions and categories, users can consult for free the descriptive cards of the individual realities mapped. The circularity of each experience is assessed through a series of indicators that take into account all stages of the production process: from the choice of raw materials to design, from energy efficiency to logistics, from waste management to the creation of shared social value, from territorial enhancement to the analysis of the entire supply chain.
The platform is designed to be a continuously updated participatory mapping tool: users can directly enter other virtuous experiences through a form prepared and edited by the CDCA team in collaboration with the Scientific Committee, composed of ECODOM sector experts , Fondazione Ecosistemi and researchers of the Poliedra Consortium – Polytechnic of Milan. The compilation of the forms for the mapping of the cards is supervised by the Scientific Committee.
Source Ministry of the Environment
