The era of linear “take, make, waste” models is over. Today’s leaders are called to adopt sustainable business strategies that go beyond minimizing harm—they must create regenerative systems that ...

Volatility in commodity markets is making it harder to rely on linear supply chains. Lithium prices, for example, rose by more than 1,000 percent between 2020 and late 2022, before dropping 86 percent ...

The circular economy offers a fresh approach to how we produce and consume, focusing on reducing, reusing, recycling and recovering. It moves us away from the traditional "make, use, discard" model, ...

Twenty-three African countries have pledged to move the continent’s circular economy agenda beyond policy frameworks and towards investment, business growth and industrial development. The shift could ...

The shift to sustainable business practices and the circular economy is becoming necessary for every company. For instance, if your customers go beyond your local community, the European Union's laws ...

We extract more than 100 billion tonnes of raw materials from Earth each year, then throw most of them away. The "circular economy" offers a different approach: instead of the linear "take-make-waste" ...

The circular economy reimagines entirely how we make and consume in order to design waste and pollution out of our industrial systems, keep materials and resources in use for as long as possible, and ...

Recycled materials make up just 6.9% of the global economy Value chain losses from waste cost $29 trillion annually, a third of GDP 45 countries now have circular economy roadmaps, up from six a ...

While companies are reducing packaging, using industrial waste as raw material and making recyclable products, circularity ...