Expand your circles: Rethinking relationships to create value from waste

Leverage your relationships to put circular economy into practice.

Lots of money and talk has gone into circular economy in recent years, but how do you make it happen? Here’s a hint: no company can do it alone. And even a company with complete vertical integration would need a tip or two. This guide gives you the first steps to think about how your relationships can evolve to make circular economy a reality.

What you’ll get:

• Concise summary of circular economy and how it applies to business
• Checklists with concrete tasks to complete for applying circular economy to business
• Tangible examples of how circular economy applies to your different stakeholder groups

Time required:

30 minutes

Sections:

• What is circular economy?
• New model, new relationships: Implications for business
• Dig into your own DNA: Internal material flows
• Explore your verticals: Waste materials from suppliers
• Make them love you more: Waste materials from customers
• Building bridges: Waste materials from other companies
• More info & references