Circular Economy and Sustainable Product Development
Service Overview
We help organisations design sustainable and resource-efficient products, services and systems using practical circular economy principles.
Typical Activities
- Circular economy business strategy
- Circularity metric assessment
- Circular economy workshop
- Resource efficiency
- Scope 3 decarbonisation
- Circular business models
We help organisations design sustainable and resource-efficient products, services and systems using practical circular economy principles.
Embedding Circular Economy Principles
The circular economy provides an alternative to the traditional "take-make-waste" model. We help organisations identify opportunities to reduce waste, improve resource efficiency and reduce environmental impacts across operations and supply chains. By combining life cycle thinking with practical implementation, we help organisations reduce Scope 3 emissions and support long-term business objectives.
Circular Economy Workshops
Through tailored circular economy workshops, we help organisations understand circular economy principles and identify opportunities for improvement. Based on the Circular Economy Collage and adapted to your sector, these workshops support participants to apply circular economy concepts within their organisation and identify practical roadmaps to improve resource efficiency and reduce waste.
We assess your organisation's current level of circularity using relevant circular economy metrics. This includes evaluating material flows, waste generation and resource use across operations and supply chains.
Our approach helps identify opportunities for improvement, support KPI development and establish a baseline for tracking progress over time. Where appropriate, assessments can be supported by life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify environmental impacts and identify opportunities to reduce Scope 3 emissions across the value chain.
Why Adopt a Circular Economy Strategy?
A circular economy strategy helps organisations reduce waste, improve resource efficiency and reduce environmental impacts across the value chain. By taking a more considered approach to how materials and resources are sourced, used and recovered, circularity provides a practical pathway to decarbonisation.
Reducing Environmental Impact and Resource Dependency
Circular economy approaches reduce reliance on virgin materials and minimise waste. This can reduce environmental impacts across the value chain and reduce exposure to resource constraints and price volatility.
Life cycle assessments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) can support this process by quantifying impacts and identifying opportunities for improvement.
Supporting Scope 3 Decarbonisation
Circularity plays an important role in reducing Scope 3 emissions by addressing upstream materials, supply chains and downstream product use. By combining circular economy principles with life cycle thinking, organisations can identify emissions hotspots and opportunities to reduce emissions across the value chain.
According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, transitioning to a circular economy is essential to addressing the 45% of global greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and consumption of goods, materials and food.
Aligning with Policy and Market Expectations
Government policy, procurement requirements and sustainability frameworks are placing greater emphasis on circular economy principles. Adopting a circular economy strategy can help organisations respond to evolving regulatory requirements, meet stakeholder expectations and support broader sustainability objectives.
General Questions
What does circular economy thinking add to a decarbonisation strategy?
Circular economy thinking can reveal opportunities to reduce waste, improve resource efficiency and create longer-term value through better product and system design. Circular economy initiatives most often reduce GHG emissions as well and broaden decarbonisation beyond energy and emissions alone to include more resilient business models.
What happens in one of the circular economy workshops?
Built on the Circular Economy Collage and tailored to the organisation's industry, they help teams get hands-on with circular economy concepts and map out realistic steps to cut waste and use resources more wisely.
Who can help develop a circular economy strategy for our products?
We work with organisations to build circular economy strategies that improve how products and materials are designed, used and managed throughout their life cycle. This involves identifying ways to use resources more efficiently, minimise waste and reduce environmental impacts across the value chain.
Depending on your needs, our support can include circularity assessments, workshops and actionable roadmaps. Life cycle assessment (LCA) can also be used to measure environmental impacts and uncover opportunities to address Scope 3 emissions.
Where does circularity fit into cutting Scope 3 emissions?
By tackling upstream materials, supply chains and how products get used downstream, pairing circular principles with life cycle thinking helps pinpoint where emissions concentrate and where they can be cut across the value chain.
How do these sessions prepare teams for AASB S2 obligations?
Rather than just explaining the standard, the training walks people through what it actually means in practice, covering who's responsible for what, and what needs to happen to put together disclosures that hold up.
How do you measure how circular an organisation currently is?
By tracking relevant circularity metrics, looking at material flows, waste output and resource use across operations and the supply chain, sometimes paired with a life cycle assessment to put numbers on environmental impacts and spot ways to reduce Scope 3 emissions.
What do board members get out of the climate governance sessions?
Directors come away with a clearer sense of their own oversight duties around climate issues, covering areas like governance, risk and disclosure, so decisions at the board table are better informed.
Do organisations have to run these as one-off sessions?
No, they can be run as standalone workshops or woven into a bigger climate and sustainability programme, whichever suits the organisation's broader goals.
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