Circular economy

Closing the loop – leveraging technology

Our Circular Economy offer helps you move strategically and operationally from a linear economy that can destroy value, to a circular economy that preserves value. We use the principles of a circular economy to create business, consumer and environmental value, by maximizing the use of resources, components and ‘final’ products throughout the value chain and product lifecycle and ensuring the reduction of the production of waste.

We believe that you can build in circular value across five entry points across the business and product lifetime:

• Define a sourcing model that is most appropriate
• Design circular products that minimize their resource footprint and enable revalorization processes
• Develop product-as-a-service innovative business model to maximize product utilization
• Extend product life with reverse operations working with existing supply chains
• Revalorize waste by developing and scaling capabilities and infrastructure to give waste a new life.

We’re already engaging with clients to help them develop their CE roadmap in sectors such as energy, aeronautics, and automotive and are well positioned to help companies secure the future of their business and develop a resource and circular economy strategy at scale.

For example we are working with Heng Hiap Industries, a fully integrated plastic recycling company in Malaysia, to design an innovative business roadmap for a new mobile application, which rewards and simplifies the process of plastic waste recycling for consumers in their communities. Read about our involvement in a project to ‘Uberize’ plastic waste recycling in South East Asia.

Capgemini’s Circular Economy service draws on the skills from across the group, from strategy, technical engineering and data, supported by bespoke tools, frameworks, and value-chain solutions.

The result? Transitioning to circular will make your businesses more resilient, more sustainable and more socially responsible.

Read more on our Sustainability propositions in automotive and aerospace sectors, and Net Zero strategy, New Business Models and Data for Net Zero.

“Over 70% of a product’s lifecycle impact (economic and environmental) is determined during its design phase.”

Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation  

Expert voices

In this video, Clément Chenut, Circular Economy Expert, Group Sustainability Accelerator, Capgemini Invent, highlights an ocean of opportunities for OEMs in the circular economy. So far, most sustainability efforts have focused on the upstream end of the value chain: the provisioning of raw materials and battery production. But Clément is excited about untapped potential between end of use and recycling for vehicles.