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Circular procurement: the basics

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Circular procurement is a powerful tool to minimize your company’s negative impact and enhance your positive impact. Often, your most significant impact is hidden behind the products and services your company purchases. But how do you start with circular procurement? And how do you involve your suppliers in this process?

Circular procurement involves purchasing products or services where requirements for optimal and effective (re)use of resources and products are applied.

Circular procurement to minimize negative impact

Be aware: circular procurement is more than buying circular products. It’s not just about a one-time purchase now, but also about commitments for the future. Think of agreements regarding maintenance, return, and residual value. This is necessary to achieve a real circular approach – one that doesn’t end after your purchase.

The R-ladder is a useful tool in circular procurement. Strategies higher on the ladder save more resources. The most circular procurement, after all, is generally the procurement that doesn’t happen: ‘Is that new floor really necessary, or would a thorough maintenance of the current carpet suffice?’

If you want to get started with circular procurement, read the Circular Procurement Action Plan: 8 steps to smart and circular procurement.

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Circular procurement for stimulating impactful innovations

Research has shown that circular procurement is more effective in stimulating impactful innovations than direct R&D subsidies. Circular procurement is thus a powerful instrument in the transition to a circular economy.

The Dutch government has an annual procurement volume of over 70 billion euros. With its purchasing power, the government can make a significant contribution to the transition to a circular economy. However, the business sector can stimulate circular innovation in the market through its procurement policies.

Getting Started with Circular Procurement?

Effectively applying circular procurement can be a journey. Ikwilcirculairinkopen.nl helps you take the next steps based on your role. A benefit for your company and our planet.