Circular Seattle 2030
- Repair businesses
- Reuse markets
- Product-as-a-service models
- Cooperative businesses
- Local circular supply chains
- Financing mechanisms that reward resource conservation
- Habitat restoration
- Soil remediation
- Phytoremediation
- Urban forests
- Green infrastructure
- Restoring ecological functions within the city
- Youth design challenges
- Green/circular workforce training
- Apprenticeships
- Maker and fabrication skills
- Repair and restoration trades
- Turning schools into living laboratories
- Policies that enable sharing, reuse and regeneration
- Procurement standards (Extended Producer Responsibility)
- Circular development requirements
- Community ownership
- New measures of economic success beyond GDP
- Infrastructure designed for adaptability rather than permanence
- Shared vehicles, bikes, cargo bikes, transit
- Mobility hubs
- Electrification
- Reuse of transportation infrastructure
- Designing streets around shared access
- Depaving parking lots/Green infrastructure
- Neighborhood-scale micro-grids
- Decentralized energy generation and storage
- Community-owned energy co-op's
- Waste heat recovery
- Buildings as energy producers
- Land Art Generators
- Urban agriculture
- Community food forests
- Compost-to-soil systems
- Local food production and distribution
- Food waste → nutrients → soil
- Connecting urban food systems to regional agriculture
- Reuse before recycling
- Repair and refurbishment
- Material recovery
- Construction and demolition material reuse
- Organics and nutrient cycling
- Designing waste out of the system
- Local fabrication
- Digital manufacturing
- 3D printing
- Maker spaces and community fabrication labs
- Turning recovered materials into new products
- Production at the point of consumption
- Rainwater capture
- Greywater reuse
- Stormwater as a resource
- Natural systems for water treatment
- Watershed restoration
- Reconnecting urban infrastructure to rivers and aquifers
- Affordable housing / anti-displacement
- Community land trusts
- Adaptive reuse
- Modular and disassemblable buildings
- Reuse of existing structures
- Deconstruction / buildings as material banks
- Neighborhood-scale resource sharing
- Waste to resource
- Shared heat, water, energy and materials
- Byproduct exchange
- Co-location of complementary industries
- Industrial parks
- Circular supply-chains
