An online resource offering companies a free step-by-step guide to increasing the lifecycle and reusability of their products, thereby making their businesses less environmentally wasteful, has been launched.
The Circular Economy Toolkit features various free, downloadable presentations and an assessment tool which enables firms to identify which parts of their businesses are most profligate and least sustainable. Users are then encouraged to develop solutions which, where possible, also increase profit.
The toolkit has been designed by Jamie Evans, a Masters Student at the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing with supervision by Dr. Nancy Bocken, as part of wider research into how the economy can become more “circular”.
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Image:Landfill site in Poland. The toolkit aims to encourage manufacturers to consider reusability, reparability and recycling at every stage of a product’s lifecycle, from design to the point of disposal.
Credit: Wysypisko odpadów w Łubnej, via Wikimedia Commons
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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Circular argument for a sustainable future
19 September 2013
A new online toolkit for manufacturers and retailers has been released to enable users to pinpoint areas in which their businesses could be made both more environmentally sustainable and profitable.