Tools and Resources
Explore a collection of short, accessible, and practical tools and resources designed to support businesses in implementing circular economy principles.
Tools and resources for transitioning to a circular economy.
Who can benefit from these tools?
Any organisation committed to reducing resource use and waste, while empowering customers to engage in circular practices, can benefit from these tools. Whether you're just beginning your circular economy journey or have already launched circular initiatives, these free-to-use resources and toolkits are designed to support you and your teams every step of the way.
Nine Strategies Toolkit
The Nine Strategies Toolkit is designed to help you explore opportunities for change within your business or organisation. Developing a circular strategy means rethinking and redesigning business models to move towards a more circular economy. The tool will guide you through each of the nine strategies and help you think about how they could be applied in your own business supported by practical examples of them in action.
Inspiring Sustainable Business Toolkit
The Inspiring Sustainable Business Toolkit is designed to help you look at your business or organisation in a fresh and creative way. This resource can help you generate new ideas that can inspire your first steps to becoming a more sustainable and circular business. It can be used to explore opportunities across your entire organisation or to focus on specific products, processes, or projects. The aim is to encourage open exploration and to inspire you to think creatively and consider broader possibilities.
Sustainable Business Canvas
The Sustainable Business Canvas is a strategic framework that helps entrepreneurs design business models that integrate sustainability at their core. It builds on the nine foundational blocks of the traditional Business Model Canvas and encourages businesses to understand and reduce their negative impacts while strengthening their social and environmental contributions. The canvas helps support the development of resilient, future-proof companies that balance growth with responsibility.
Circular Value Proposition Toolkit
The Circular Value Proposition Toolkit is designed to give you confidence that the product or service you’re developing considers the needs of potential customers. It provides practical guidance, templates you can work through in your own time, and links to freely available resources you may find useful. It also helps you explore how circular economy principles can strengthen your business and ensure it delivers value for both your customers and your business.
Support from external organisations
Alongside our own resources, there are several organisations and tools that provide valuable support for businesses looking to adopt circular practices, reduce resource use, and minimise waste.
UK Business Climate Hub
The UK Business Climate Hub is a collaboration between the UK Government, businesses and business groups across the UK. The UK Business Climate Hub provides net zero advice for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK.
WRAP
WRAP is a non-governmental organisation rooted in technical expertise, impartial evidence base and independent convening power.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is a systems change organisation that is aiming to reshape markets and accelerate the circular economy transition
Climate Action Hub
Jointly funded by the Scottish Government and Scottish Business Climate Collaboration (SBCC) members, and delivered by Zero Waste Scotland, the Climate Action Hub is a free-to-use platform that is intended to support SMEs understand climate risk and develop decarbonisation plans to support the global ambition of net zero.