Municipal waste management has become a growing issue worldwide, contributing to pollution and climate change. It’s been increasingly affected by a rising population, urbanisation, an increasing consumption of goods and increased resource scarcity. While Municipalities have inadequate and outdated waste infrastructure, and other barriers to contend with. Over the last few years, national Governments have started to introduce plans, strategies and regulations to change the current linear system into a circular system. With targets from the UK Government approaching in 2035, there are some Local Authorities in the UK who are far from the target, including authorities in Devon. The report aims to identify inefficiencies and barriers in the current linear system at a local level, in Devon, looking at how they could be addressed, and proposing solutions which could be applied locally and holistically to the UK, making the system more circular. It has collected publicly available secondary data from Governments and other sources, using it to analysis and compare the UK to a range of other countries. With the outcomes of this report being recommendations to local authorities and the UK government, with potential solutions which could be implemented to improve the circular economy.