Our focus areas

We focus on five main areas: food, fashion and textiles, plastics and packaging, electricals and electronics, and the built environment.

These five areas were chosen because they:

  • are major contributors to London’s current waste volumes and/or London’s carbon emissions
  • touch London’s businesses and citizens at multiple points in their lives, providing a huge opportunity for behaviour and systems change that can deliver impact
  • are rich in potential resource, providing real opportunity for new circular economy business growth

In other words: because they are both a cause of the problem AND a source of solutions.

You can find out more about our five focus areas by downloading a copy of our Circular Economy Route Map or by searching for relevant content in our Resources Library

What do we do in each focus area?

For each area we have a sector lead and a plan, with activity across each area including: research and data analysis; partnership initiatives; pilots and ‘test and learn’ projects; and behaviour change campaigns.

We collaborate closely with the One World Living initiative (part of London Councils’ climate programme), the Mayor of London and a range of businesses, boroughs and funders to develop and deliver all of this work, more detail on which can be found in the sections below.

Work with us

If you would like to discuss our work in one or more of these focus areas, or would like to explore collaborative opportunities, please get in touch by emailing hello@relondon.gov.uk

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