The National Circular Economy Strategy of Uruguay,guides the vision to build a critical mass of stakeholders who will adopt the proposed model by 2050. This includes consumers, producers, businesses, and institutions. Achieving this critical mass will involve a learning process to assimilate system changes at different levels:
- Optimize resource use and dematerialization at the product, business, and consumer levels.
- Implement new business models at the meso level (value chains and industrial parks), including shared infrastructure, collaboration, and symbiosis between businesses to improve the efficiency of materials, water, and energy.
- Contribute at the macro level (cities, regions, and national level) to natural resource conservation, economic prosperity, and social equity.
General Objective: To promote sustainable production and consumption systems focused on the circular use of resources, generating value and regenerating natural systems.
Specific Objectives:
- Strengthen institutions, public policies, and the environment to promote circular production and consumption systems, including monitoring systems.
- Encourage RD initiatives for circular models like eco-design, extending product life, material recovery, energy and water recovery, biomass use in cascades, and shared resource use.
- Foster circular business models and cities.
- Promote a culture of circular consumption and production.
