In light of increased environmental destruction, resource scarcity and increased waste production the concept of circular economy (CE) has gained increasing attention. It is the main goal of CE to re-form the dominant linear value chains into a circular economic system. By applying sustainable product design, closing resource loops, implementing service solutions or circularity along…
Mandatory Carbon Footprint as a Part of the New Strategic Approach for Sustainable Life Cycles of Batteries By taking a look at possible future scenarios, batteries are inevitable in numerous use cases. In our daily lives at home, we use batteries in smartphones, in our living rooms or remote controls and kitchen equipment. As a…
Companies that are seriously dealing with the topics of climate change and sustainability will sooner or later need to re-launch their business model. When all “low-hanging fruits” are picked a company has no choice but to dig deeper and find more ways to fulfil their climate goals, implement their climate strategy and complete their reduction…
During a plenary debate in February 2021, the EU Parliament representatives agreed that achieving the goals of the European “Green Deal” will only be possible if the EU moves to a circular economy model and that this change will create new jobs and business opportunities. Furthermore, they stated that mandatory 2030 targets for material consumption…
In short, Circular Economy (CE) is about creating closed loop material flows keeping products, components and materials at their highest utility and value and use them through multiple lifecycles. It is also about waste prevention, resource efficiency, leakage minimisation and dematerialisation: Raw materials are added for manufacturing and re-manufacturing of products or components already in…
8. Bayrischer CSR Tag – Risikomanagement für Lieferketten, Klimaneutralität bis Social Entrepreneurship Ein spannendes Programm versprach der 8. Bayrische CSR-Tag am 22. September 2020, aus gegebenem Anlass virtuell durchgeführt. Vom Risikomanagement für Lieferketten, Klimaneutralität bis Social Entrepreneurship wurde der Bogen gespannt. Unser Teilnehmer, Armin Hipper, entschied sich für die Workshop Session „von der Circular Economy…
Huge amounts of plastic waste in oceans and on land, landfills that cause pollution, animals struggling with our waste: These are only a few challenges humanity is facing at the moment linked to the conventional economic activity ‚produce, use, throw‘. One factor is that most business models at the moment are focused on linear growing…
In light of increased environmental destruction, resource scarcity and increased waste production the concept of Circular Economy (CE) has gained increasing attention. It is the main goal of CE to re-form the dominant linear value chains into a circular economic system. By applying sustainable product design, closing resource loops, implementing service solutions or circularity along…
DFGE has recently published the new whitepaper “Closed-loop value chains: how to move towards a circular business model”. In this paper, DFGE demonstrates how a business can create a loop value chain in which no ‘waste’, such as food waste, packaging or energy, is generated. The term ‘circular economy’ has evolved into one of the…
