The Circular Regions focus on Canadian business circularity project has a long history of data collection. Currently this project is managed through weRcircular, through their trained Circular Regions data collection entrepreneur.

This project began in 2021 when the Circular Economy Club city chapters within Canada banded together during the pandemic to create The Canadian Circular Economy Clubs of Canada. This group conducted a data-driven mapping of Circular Businesses across the country which was showcased at the 2021 Sitra’s World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) and again in 2022.

Circular Region’s project platform made this all possible by creating new data intake methods developed to aid in multi-stage best-practice case study mapping and condensed case studies for baseline reporting. They introduced an associated e-learning module to support networks of communities. Circular Regions gave the team new data intake methods that allowed our team much more independence in the case study editing.  The team felt enabled and the  e-learning modules were very supportive.