Circular Transformation of Industries

Enabling a growing, resilient and sustainable economy through the adoption of circularity at scale.

We unite stakeholders across industries to drive the widespread adoption of circular practices, enabling a growing, resilient, and sustainable economy.

For over 20 years, businesses, industries, and governments have primarily focused on circularity initiatives centred around waste management. However, this approach overlooks a much broader systemic opportunity for transformation. True circular transformation requires a shift across entire systems to encompass operations, manufacturing and business models. 

The Circular Transformation of Industries Initiative brings together diverse stakeholders across multiple industries. Our goal is to to enable a growing, resilient and sustainable economy through the adoption of circularity at scale.

Driving our mission forward

The initiative fosters  the adoption of circularity at scale through strategic  efforts across three key workstreams.

Knowledge Sharing

Inspiring action by learning from best practices and Circularity Champions while identifying the circular business and operating models vital for industry-wide transformation.

Thought Leadership

Defining and leveraging key enablers of circularity for business and policy.

Mobilisation

Uniting and mobilising a community to drive a cross-industry movement, incubate pilot projects, and scale solutions to address common implementation challenges.

Circularity-enabled impact areas

Competitiveness

Unlocking growth and maximizing value through innovative business models, enhanced resource productivity, and greater product longevity.

Resilience

Strengthening supply chains, reducing exposure to resource disruptions and price volatility, and diversifying sources of inputs.

Sustainability

Lowering environmental and material impact by minimizing waste, lowering emissions, and advancing resource-efficient production systems.

Our latest insights

Circular Transformation of Industries: The Art of Scaling Circular Supply Chains

This white paper provides a practical roadmap for moving from ambition to execution. It outlines methods for prioritization, approaches to design circular supply chains and key enablers that are essential for scale. 

Circular Transformation of Industries: Unlocking Economic Value

This paper suggests enabling strategies that can help navigate complexities and unlock economic value. These strategies offer a roadmap for achieving a circular transformation of industries at scale.

Harmonizing Metrics to Measure Circularity: A Call to Action

This briefing paper helps readers understand business perspectives and where they are now in terms of circularity/resource efficiency metrics.

Circular Transformation of Industries: The Role of Partnerships

By examining three distinct archetypes of circular value creation, the paper offers valuable insights into collaborative approaches that facilitate the exchange of knowledge, information and circular material and products.

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If you have any questions about our initiative, don't hesitate to contact us.

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