The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) held a discussion on why the circular economy is not being taken up by “business leaders and policy makers”.
David Fitzsimons from the Centre for Remanufacturing and Reuse attended the meeting, held at the Institute of Civil Engineers in early January, where the question “if the circular economy is clearly in the public interest, why is it still only a minority interest among business leaders and policy makers?” was asked.
The meeting was the second one in a series that the RICS have organised to “examine the role of public interest and public good in the context of global trends and the built environment”. Fitzsimmons attended the meeting as an “expert in the development of product stewardship and extended producer responsibility programmes for companies and trade associations”.
Fitzsimmons will launch a new European Council for Remanufacturing at the end of January in Brussels, The Conseil Européen de Remanufacture (http://www.therecycler.com/posts/european-remanufacturing-council-launch-announced/), which will “mirror” a similar one in the USA, and the Council will mediate with the National Key Lab for Remanufacturing in Beijing.