CEO guide to the circular economy: 2025 edition

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CEO guide to the circular economy: 2025 edition

11 August 2025

CEO guide to the circular economy: 2025 edition

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How Cape Town businesses can lead the circular economy 

GreenCape, in partnership with Wesgro has released the CEO Guide to the Circular Economy, supported by the Western Cape Government and the City of Cape Town.

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In this guide you will find a 7-step process for building resilience to material shocks and stresses and real examples from Cape Town businesses already succeeding (such as Clothes to Good and Maltento). The guide includes insights on landfill bans and what they mean for your industry.

Additionally, you will find GreenCape’s curated list of 150+ funding opportunities to support the transition phase to a circular economy and tools to measure your circular performance and report progress confidently.

Furthermore, CEOs are provided an introduction to circular economy principles, an overview to the supply chain risks and end of life liabilities facing businesses, and resources for integrating circularity into business to strengthening value chain resilience and business competitiveness.

This publication has been produced by GreenCape and Wesgro, the official tourism, trade, and investment promotion agency for Cape Town and the
Western Cape.

For more publications on the circular economy explore GreenCape’s circular economy portal or contact the Western Cape Industrial Symbiosis Programme (WISP) to join a network of businesses that reuse each other’s waste and materials.