Circular economy

Companies are on the verge of a resource crisis that threatens their core business.

Soon companies – and not just their procurement teams – will bear the consequences of the risks related to resources availability: geological and geopolitical availability of raw materials; competition between industrial sectors and countries; lack of substitution alternatives and recycling potential; and social and environmental impact.

These risks are starting to materialize through sky-rocketing commodity prices, severe supply chain disruptions and pressure from customers, analysts and NGOs, putting companies’ core business in jeopardy. The traditional linear model of “take-make-consume-waste” is looking increasingly untenable. The circular economy has become a business imperative.

“Data from our CRI report, Circular economy for a sustainable future, indicates that 73% of executives polled agree that a contribution to the circular economy is necessary to achieve long-term financial and competitive goals; only 53% attest to having a circular-economy strategy and only 41% of organizations have integrated circularity metrics into decisions.”
Clément Chenut, Circular Economy Services Leader

Bringing circular economy to life

How we can help

Our circular economy solution 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. Our circular economy solution draws on skills from across the Group, from strategy, technical engineering and data, supported by bespoke tools, frameworks, and value-chain solutions, to make businesses more resilient, more sustainable, and more socially responsible.

Rethink materials, rethink production, rethink supply chains

Clément Chenut, Circular Economy Leader, and Kara Pecknold, VP Regenerative Design, frog, on planetary boundaries and a hero for the next economy.

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

Client stories

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Circular economy in action

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Accelerating the future of recycling in Southeast Asia

We are working with Heng Hiap Industries (HHI), a fully integrated plastic recycling company in Malaysia, to design an innovative business roadmap for a new mobile application that rewards and simplifies the process of plastic waste recycling for consumers in their communities.