| BAMB | Building As Material Banks |
| BBL | Federation for a Better Environment |
| CEBANS | Circular Economy Business Accelerator North Sweden |
| CEFUR | Centre for Research and Development |
| CFE | OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities |
| CO2 | Carbon dioxide |
| EMASAGRA | Water and Sanitation Company of the City of Granada (Empresa Municipal de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento de Granada) |
| EU | European Union |
| EUR | Euro |
| FTI | Packaging and Newspaper Collection Service |
| GBP | British Pound |
| GDCP | Green Deal Circular Procurement |
| GDP | Gross domestic product |
| GHG | Greenhouse gas |
| GPP | Green Public Procurement |
| ICT | Information and communications technology |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IT | Information technology |
| LCA | Life Cycle Analysis |
| MOVEBI | Mobility and Transport for the Visitor Industry |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OVAM | Flemish Public Waste Agency |
| PM10 | Particulate matter smaller than 10 microns in diameter |
| R&D | Research and development |
| RISE | Research Institutes of Sweden |
| RISN | Resource Innovation and Solutions Network |
| SEI | Stockholm Environmental Institute |
| SEK | Swedish Kronor |
| SME | Small- and medium-sized enterprise |
| UBI | Umeå Biotech Incubator |
| UMU | Umeå University |
| USBE | Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics |
| USD | American Dollar |
| VAT | Value-added tax |
| VTT | Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. |
| VVSG | Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities |
The Circular Economy in Umeå, Sweden
