Top businesses have shared their research in support of “the wider circular economy transition”.
Circulate News reported that HP Inc, Lexmark and Dell are among the big corporations that have shared their research and that the focus at present has focussed largely on “the role of finance in the transition, to a study of reverse logistics needs, to exploring a collection of built environment case studies”.
The article noted that more recently three finished projects concentrated on product repair, recycling plastics in all industries and “built environment circular business models”. The recycling of plastics across all industries was the teamwork of Dell, Lexmark, Philips, Renault, Schneider Electric, Veolia and others and the initiative looked at ways that “some of the main engineering plastics” used in the car and electronics market were responsible for the paper on “plastic streams and material loops” which will be explored further.
HP Inc, iFixit and ebay collaborated on The Empowering Repair Project focussing on non-commercial repair activity and identifying any obstacles as well as recommendations to increase these actions. The second action was to occupy a portal with information on products to allow a more efficient dismantling and recycling of e-waste and data and this is to be further developed.
Royal BAM and Arup collaborated on Circular Business Models for the Built Environment and the effects circular economy can have on it and how the circular business models can benefit the built environment “value chain” with the intention that “more companies will see the benefit of contributing to a built environment based on a circular economy”.
The reports can be viewed at The Ellen MacArthur Foundation website