April 2021 Report - African Cities: Is there Space for Circularity?

The spread of the COVID-19 the role of cities in the future transition to a is already urban (Figure 2) and the urban distance between the academic debate and pandemic has caused a shrinking of the global sustainable community (EC, 2017). [...] The measures could facilitate the gradual and system that consists of differences, it is hard flows are the sum total of the technical and The spreading of urbanisation leads to an logical expansion of neighbourhoods together to compare CE principles enforced in different socio-economic processes that occur in cities, increase in the global natural resources with the implementation of facilities;. [...] The case studies analysed in this paper are Indeed most of the available information on selected from several countries of the Sub- African circular activities comes from the south Saharan region (Figure 6 shows the localization area, while the circular activities from the and the impact of each case) to illustrate central one are less known and the work wants different backgrounds and experiences. [...] The project wants plastic waste by independent pickers from energy, the center it is planning to expand the The flow of waste is the most related to the to expand through all the 10 municipalities of individual households, from the street and from “Shongaï energy project”. [...] from the humidity in the air, thanks to the high The flow of energy affects different activities because in Nairobi more than 50% of waste temperature and the high level of humidity of in urban and extra-urban areas, but the production (2,400 tons daily) is organic.