Our priorities

We have three key missions, aligned with global trends — critical minerals, plastics, and retail — and we use our position at the interface of business and policy to accelerate change.

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Exploring the circular economy opportunity for critical minerals

Rethinking critical minerals in a material-intensive future.

  • Critical Minerals
  • Mission
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Designing out plastic pollution with the circular economy

We must change how we design, use, and reuse plastics.

  • Plastics
  • Mission
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Activating policy for a circular economy

Policymakers can create the enabling conditions for the circular economy to outcompete linear...

  • Policy
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2030 Plastics Agenda for Business

After a decade of concerted effort, leading companies have bent the curve on virgin plastics in packaging. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s new 2030 Plastics Agenda for Business provides the blueprint to build on this progress in eliminating plastic waste and pollution in the years ahead.

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The Story of the Big Food Redesign

Watch the Foundation’s latest video, The Story of the Big Food Redesign, to learn more about the...

  • Food
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Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a circular economy

We develop and promote the idea of a circular economy. We inspire and work with business, academia, policymakers, and institutions across the globe. Our vision is an economic system that’s better for people and the environment.

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Built environment and the circular economy

In a circular economy our built environment can be a force for good

  • Built environment
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Cities and Measurement and the circular economy

This topic area looks at the role cities play in the transition to a circular economy.

  • Cities
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Circular design and the circular economy

Design is a force for change. From innovative products or disruptive business models to entire...

  • Design
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Finance and the circular economy

This topic area looks at the role of the financial sector in the shift to a circular economy.

  • Finance