Reports
This is a list of reports produced by different institutions and links to each article. These represent a few of the increasingly available reports that show concepts and the breadth of benefits of building toward a more circular bioeconomy.
2024
McKinsey & Company. 2024. What is Circularity? On-line article defining circularity as practices that optimize resource use and minimize waste across the entire production and consumption cycle, emphasizing sustainability and economic efficiency. Access Here.
U.S. Department of Energy. 2024. 2023 Billion‐Ton Report: An Assessment of U.S. Renewable Carbon Resources. M. H. Langholtz (Lead). Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ORNL/SPR-2024/3103. Download Here.
2023
2022
Congressional Research Service. 2022. White House Initiative to Advance the Bioeconomy, E.O. 14081: In Brief. Download Here.
Hodgson, A., Alper, J., Maxon, M.E. 2022. The U.S. Bioeconomy: Charting a Course for a Resilient and Competitive Future. New York, New York: Schmidt Futures. Download Here.
Gomez San Juan, M., Harnett, S. and Albinelli, I. 2022. Sustainable and circular bioeconomy in the climate agenda: Opportunities to transform agrifood systems. Rome, FAO. Download Here.
2021
Dunn, J. Liang, C (Lead authors). 2021. A World Without Waste: A Circular Bioeconomy. UIDP Workshop Report sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Download Here.
Congressional Research Service. 2021. The Bioeconomy: A Primer. Download Here.
2020
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Safeguarding the Bioeconomy, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. Download Here.
Bilec, M. M., Beckman, E. J., Jambeck, J., Locklin, J. and Jiang, G., Cruz Rios Ford, F. 2020. NSF Convergence Accelerator: Design for Circular Economy from Molecules to the Built Environment Workshop Report. Download Here.
Older
Ellen MacArthur Foundation. 2013. Towards the Circular Economy Vol. 1: An Economic and Business Rationale for an Accelerated Transition. Download Here.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Food and the Circular Economy – Deep Dive. Read Report Here.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Circular Economy – Regenerate Nature. Read Report Here.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation. What is a Circular Economy? Read Report Here.
Golden, J. S. Handfield, R. Pascual-Gonzales, J. Brennan, T., Khan, L., and True, E. 2018. Indicators of the U.S. Biobased Economy. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Energy Policy and New Uses, Office of the Chief Economist. Download Here.
Carus, M., Dammer, L. 2018. The “Circular Bioeconomy” – Concepts, Opportunities and Limitations. Nova Institute for Ecology and Innovation, Hurth, Germany. Paper #9 on bio-based economy. Download Here.
Philp, J. and Winickoff, D. E. “Realising the circular bioeconomy”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, No. 60, OECD Publishing, Paris. Download Here.