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Circular economy is seen as a way to increase prolonged use of products, and to reduce consumption and waste (European commission, 2025). The CARE project involved over 100 households to study their current practices regarding food waste and circular clothing with the aim to be scaled up in Europe.

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Households throw away one third of edible food (Swedish Food Agency, 2024) and almost one fifth of clothes that go to waste could have been reused (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, 2024). Circular economy is seen as a way to increase prolonged use of products, and to reduce consumption and waste (European commission, 2025). The CARE project involved over 100 households to study their current practices regarding food waste and circular clothing with the aim to be scaled up in Europe. A practice-oriented perspective in conjunction with the use of an intervention-based approach are applied in the project that takes place in five different European countries and cities, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Estonia. We will present the outcomes of the first phase in the project in which the households have been recruited and observation of current practices as well as assessment of environmental impact including community related activities have been performed.