Sustainability Service
Shifting from linear to circular economic models is essential for building flexible, risk-resistant organizations and economies while conserving resources. Our circularity solutions help identify new opportunities and create new sources of value.
Businesses face a new reality shaped by geopolitical disruptions, regulatory pressures, and resource scarcity. These changes present both challenges and opportunities, making it imperative that companies act now to position themselves and to ensure a competitive advantage for future success. We’ll guide you in developing and scaling innovative solutions that create value through circular design, reducing waste, extending product life, remanufacturing, and recycling. We’ll also examine how shifting profit pools and changes in the flow of materials and information can unlock new areas for growth.
Our team of circular economy consultants will help you pinpoint areas in your business in which circular principles can be applied, seamlessly integrate these strategies into your operations, and support your business and sustainability goals. Despite the perception of high initial investments in sustainable operations, our experience shows that circular business models can actually drive growth, reduce costs, and enhance business resilience, especially when paired with vertical integration and strategic partnerships. Whether your business deals with raw materials, manufacturing, or consumer products and retail, our circular economy solutions can help you gain a strategic edge.
Our comprehensive strategy and tools cover every aspect of transforming your company’s traditional linear business models into circular ones. We also assist you in integrating circularity across business functions and organizational priorities, including procurement, manufacturing, supply chain, and full potential strategy.
Understand value and opportunity costs from circular business models and benchmark maturity and commitments against competitors.
Assess circularity needs and compromises paired with other operations priorities, such as cost and resilience
Incorporate future-focused circularity considerations and concessions.
Integrate circular design and trade-offs into product and packaging development.
Committed by 80 companies, project partners, and supporters via the Alliance to End Plastic Waste
Projects in past two years for clients on the topics of circularity, recycling and waste / packaging strategy
We’ll work with you to identify circularity opportunities, such as switching to circular feedstocks for plastics, textiles, or metals, to boost profitability, increase efficiency, and appeal to sustainability-minded customers.
Establishing circular business models can help differentiate your brand and drive growth. Integrating circularity into your long-term strategy may include a variety of actions, from developing reusable packaging to extending the lives of products and selling products as services.
Shifting to recycled products and technologies ensures continued growth as resources become more constrained. We can assist you in implementing a range of critical actions that make a significant impact, such as decarbonizing your supply chain.
From identifying circular business opportunities to reducing your physical footprint and costs by minimizing waste and input materials, we help integrate sustainability into your brand, improving efficiency and customer relationships.
Embracing circularity in tech can cut costs, enhance reputation, and access new markets. We help implement actions to build loyalty and reduce environmental repercussions, such as extending product lifecycles.
Our partnerships in the ever-evolving sustainability landscape enable us to meet your needs and deliver impactful results. Through these relationships, we can offer the latest thought leadership and circularity solutions so that you can stay ahead. Learn more about how these partners can help transform your company for the better.
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