Can developing countries benefit from the circular economy?
Developing countries have not benefited from the linear economy, the economy in which goods are manufactured from raw materials, sold, used, and then discarded as waste. They have ...
Rémy Le Moigne is the Managing Director of Gate C, a circular economy consultancy firm. He has been a partner of Deloitte where he led projects in Europe and Africa, and is also the author of several award-winning books including: L’economie circulaire. Stratégie pour un monde durable (Dunod, 2018), and Supply chain management. Achat, production, logistique, transport, vente (Dunod, 2017).
Towards Factories with no Assets
Many offices don’t buy printers, lighting systems, computers or carpets anymore. To reduce their costs, they prefer to buy copies per page from Xerox, light per lux from Philips, c...
Reverse logistics, the circular economy weakest link
Reverse logistics is sometimes described as the logistics going in the “wrong direction”. Yet, by closing the loop of product lifecycles, it plays an important role to transitionin...
Making Products Last
Recently, Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, made an unnoticed but major statement. She announced that Apple’s goal was to eliminat...
Waste + Information = Resource
Circular economy principles rely on a very simple equation, “waste = resource.” However, the reality is somewhat different. For example, converting plastic waste into valuable mate...
An Important Step Forward
Janez Potocnik – Forum for the Future of Agriculture, Brussels 2016 Adopted by the European Parliament on April 18th 2018 and approved by the European Cou...