D1.4 - CircServices for Circ@Home: A Concept for Circular Services Enabling Households to Become Circular Work package

This technical report develops the Circular Services Model (CSM) within the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Circ@Home project. The report examines how circular services can enable households to adopt more circular everyday practices by making sustainable options practical, accessible, trustworthy, and easy to use.

The report positions circular services as a core element of the Urban Circularity Triangle connecting households, local services, municipal governance, and local circularity hubs. Rather than defining services as “circular” based on labels alone, the report proposes a functional approach in which services contribute to circularity when they reduce resource use, extend product life, support reuse, or prevent waste in ways that households can realistically adopt in daily life.

The framework is built around four functional property families: visibility and access, capability and trust, transaction-cost reduction, and infrastructure linkage. The report also analyses the enabling role of municipalities, local ecosystems, service-provider models, and hub-based coordination in supporting household circularity.

The deliverable combines conceptual development with evidence from household-barrier analysis, service-provider interviews, ecosystem observations, and literature review. It provides a diagnostic and transferable framework for understanding how circular services can support urban circularity under different local conditions and serves as a basis for future piloting, evaluation, and replication activities within the Circ@Home project.