GHG (Hotspot) Baseline
CIRCULÉIRE is raising awareness and capacity building with our member participants to explore and report not only Scope 1 & 2 emissions, but also Scope 3 emissions on an annual basis. The CIRCULÉIRE baseline assessment provides you with a Hotspot Baseline for your estimated emissions across scope 1, 2 and 3 which provide an indicator of how your organisation is performing over time. Completing a baseline assessment annually will help your organisation to:
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Inform carbon reduction target setting
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Establish internal data collection and data management practices
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Enable transparent communication about your emissions reduction efforts – as part of ESG and CSRD reporting requirements.
GHG (Hotpost) Baseline Steps
Circular Maturity Model
Transitioning from the current linear economy of ‘Take, Make and Waste’ to a circular economy where ‘waste’ is designed out of the system is not something that is done overnight. Nor is it something that is done by one or two people within in an organisation. It requires a broader conversation across the entire organisation to make that shift from a linear to a circular mindset.
CIRCULÉIRE’s Circular Maturity Model (CMM) is an online self-assessment toolkit designed to facilitate that conversation.
Key benefits of the CMM tool are:
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Stimulate a dialogue around what circularity means for your business
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Understand your circular economy capabilities
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Establish (Annual) Circular Maturity Baseline & Benchmark Circularity Performance
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Gain recommendations to improve Circular Economy Performance
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Visual Reporting Tool - representing your current and targeted circularity levels
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Easy-to-Use Online Tool - functionality for both individual and multi-user assessments
Circular Action Plan
For those organisation's interested in finding ways to save money and add value to your business operations, we offer a comprehensive assessment and customised action plan.
Over the course of 12 to 16 weeks, our team will work closely with you through on-site visits, workshops, and interviews to:
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Understand the current environmental impacts of your production processes and supply chain, focusing on materials, water, and energy usage.
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Identify areas where circular economy strategies are already in practice.
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Analyze how resources are utilized throughout your value chain and pinpoint where inefficiencies occur.
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Brainstorm innovative ideas for reducing costs, enhancing supply chain resilience, and create new value opportunities through circular strategies.
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Develop a customized action plan outlining short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals for implementing circular economy practices, allowing for ongoing monitoring and performance tracking.
Circular Ventures Accelerator
From 2020 to 2023, CIRCULÉIRE in collaboration with Tangent, Trinity’s Idea Workspace delivered Ireland’s first accelerator dedicated to scaling circular ventures. This programme is a combination of non-equity funding and expert mentoring that supports mid-level start-ups to expand their innovative business models and impact Ireland’s Net-Zero Carbon ambitions. The programme empowers Ireland’s circular economy entrepreneurs to scale their circular solutions and find markets.
CIRCULÉIRE's Circular Venture Accelerator aims to support late-stage circular economy ventures to scale by introducing innovators to System Thinking for circularity, helping them refine their customers profiling, improving their ability to leverage multiple funding opportunities, getting them familiar with tools to measure circular performance and master their storytelling. We are committed to give circular economy innovators, who wish to avail of highly specialized circularity mentorship and business acceleration support, access to a diverse pool of mentors, coaches and subject experts.
Circular Food Co.
Circular Food Co. enables the circular economy by transforming food manufacturing waste into high-value ingredients. We help producers reduce disposal, cut carbon, and create new revenue streams—keeping food in the system longer and replacing resource-intensive ingredients with upcycled, sustainable alternatives.
EcoRoots
Ecoroots is a biotechnology company creating high-performance, compostable packaging from mycelium, the root network of fungi, grown on agricultural and industrial waste. By combining advanced biology with digital optimisation, we deliver circular solutions that cut emissions, reduce energy use, and eliminate waste by upcycling local by-products into truly sustainable, closed-loop packaging.
Bean Around
Bean Around is a coffee repurposing business focused on transforming used coffee grounds into revitalising exfoliating bars, body scrubs and other high value-added products. We are challenging the prevailing linear, single use, throw away business model that is contributing significantly to current global environmental issues. Our philosophy is: rethink the problem, reimagine the solution, and redesign the product. Our goal is to shift the way people view waste, turning what was once discarded into high value-added, eco-friendly, sustainable products.
Mesh Bioplastics
Mesh Bioplastics develops sustainable plant-based alternatives to single use medical plastics. By designing products compatible with existing clinical waste and industrial composting processes, we enable healthcare providers to reduce reliance on fossil-derived plastics and move toward circular end-of-life solutions—minimising environmental impact without disrupting established workflows.
Kinset
Kinset is driving circularity in fashion through its Digital Product Passport platform. By enabling supply chain transparency, promoting repair and reuse, and guiding end-of-life recycling, Kinset empowers brands and consumers to extend product lifecycles, reduce waste, and meet EU sustainability regulations, transforming compliance into action for a more circular economy.
Reloop
Reloop supports CIRCULÉIRE’s mission by embedding circular practices in households, promoting access over ownership, enabling textile and e-waste recirculation, and engaging diverse stakeholders. Our data-driven, service-based model reduces waste, retains materials, and fosters systemic change, accelerating Ireland’s transition to a circular economy with measurable environmental benefits.
Anaula
Anaula builds technology that transforms distillery wastewater into algae-based fertiliser and feed. By using algae to recover nutrients from waste, we convert pollution into a regenerative input—replacing synthetic fertilisers and unsustainable fish feed—demonstrating a closed-loop, nature-based circular economy model.
Hibra Design
Hibra Design develops bespoke vehicles and vehicle systems with a focus on clean technology powertrains. A core part of our offering is to reengineer fossil-fuel powered vehicles with battery-electric powertrains. This allows companies to significantly reduce operational costs; meet ESG and CSR responsibilities; create healthier working environments and increase production efficiency.
European Level Funding Supports
Horizon Europe
Horizon Europe is European Union’s primary funding program for research and innovation. The programme funds large scale international research projects on a variety of topics including the circular economy and sustainability.
Objectives: Improving European competitiveness through innovation.
Target Audience(s): Research organisations, SMEs, multinationals.
For most call proposals you must apply as a team of at least three partner organization from three different EU or associated countries, at least one being from an EU country.
Total Funding: Budget of EUR 95.5 billion for the period of 2021-2027.
Availability: Funding opportunities all year around, deadlines dependent on specific calls.
National and All-Island Funding Supports
Enterprise Ireland Green Transition Fund
The Green Transition Fund supports companies across each of the different aspects of their decarbonisation journey – from initial planning and capability building to investment, research, and innovation. The fund is comprised of two separate streams:
The Climate Planning Fund for Business includes the following opportunities:
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Climate Action Voucher: €1,800 for advisory support to develop an initial sustainability/decarbonization/circular economy strategy and action plan
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Green Start: Up to €5,000 to fund consultancy to introduce environmental best practice systems.
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Green Plus: up to €50,000 support for training project to improve environmental management capability.
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Strategic Consultancy: Up to €35,000 support to assist large energy user to develop carbon reduction roadmap.
Audience: High-potential start-ups, SME and large enterprise can apply to all the above, except from GreenPlus which is available only for SME and large enterprise.
Availability: any time.
The Enterprise Emissions Reduction Investment Fund include the following opportunities:
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Capital investment for Energy Monitoring & Tracking Systems: Up to €50,000 for companies to put in place systems to monitor energy usage.
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Capital Investment for Decarbonisation processes: Up to €1m to support companies to decarbonise their manufacturing combustion processes.
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Innovation and R&D Grants: From €5,000 innovation vouchers to large scale R&D projects in the areas of sustainability and decarbonisation.
Audience: Manufacturing, SMEs and large enterprises.
Availability: any time.
Policy Innovation
CIRCULÉIRE's involvement in policy advisory groups and legislative discussions exemplifies our collective commitment to advancing the circular economy agenda in Ireland. Through strategic collaborations, expert representation, and thought leadership, we actively contribute to the formulation of policies that drive sustainable practices, innovation, and economic growth. As we engage with policymakers and industry stakeholders, our aim is to create an environment where circular principles thrive and pave the way for a more resilient and prosperous Ireland.
At CIRCULÉIRE, we actively engage with key policy initiatives and decision-making processes that affect our Industry members to support the adoption of their circular transition in Ireland. CIRCULÉIRE team members play an active roles in advisory groups led by government and state agencies, such as the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment (DCEE), the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (DAFM) , the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI). We contribute on behalf of Industry members with insights, knowledge, and industry experience to inform the policy decision making process