The world needs to change the way it consumes and disposes of goods – from fashion to food, from cans to cars. Businesses across the supply chain recognise the need to move to a circular economy, where reusing and recycling materials creates cost efficiencies and minimises the waste we put into our land and oceans.

But the co-ordination of action by businesses and governments needs to increase dramatically to make new, circular systems work – where materials are produced and products are designed to make them easily reusable or recyclable at the end of their lives.

The Festival of Circular Economy provides a forum for all actors – from start-ups to multinationals, from research projects to governments – to generate the ideas and connections which will accelerate our progress to a world without waste.