Lyon Métropole, France

Lyon Métropole is a French territorial authority covering 58 municipalities that oversee an area of 534 km2 with a total of 1.4 million residents. Lyon Métropole is the third biggest territorial authority in France. With 9400 employees and a 2021-2026 budget of €3.97 billion, Lyon Métropole is in charge of the following public policies: Solidarity, Town planning, Urban services, Economic developmnet, Education and Culture and sport.

Driving the circular economy

• Economic development: the circular economy is one of the two structural levers of the “positive impact economic development” policy. It targets both natively circular companies and predominantly linear companies “in transition” in 6 key sectors: 4 value chains: textiles, construction, food and digital and 2 cross-cutting sectors: industry and commerce
•  Prevention and waste management, with a waste master plan aimed at reducing waste production by 25% per capita and incineration by 50% by 2030, and improving the recovery of residual waste (60% material recovery - reuse, recycling, composting, etc. - from household and similar waste).

Waste management

Lyon Métropole is taking action by :

- Adapting its offer to encourage reuse and material recovery: shared and individual composting, biowaste drop-off points, donation centers, ecocenters, mobile waste collection centers, vegetation centers, etc.

-  Supporting users: awareness-raising, workshops,

-  Establishing a framework conducive to waste prevention and recovery: collection regulations and swearing-in of staff.

Two pillars for the circular economy strategy

- Choice of a strong circularity, i.e. a transformation of lifestyles and production methods in line with the limitation of natural resources (as opposed to a weak circular economy based on the optimization of existing models),

- The need for cooperation, between companies and between companies and the local area, to move from a linear economy to a circular economy.