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  • About this report
    • Foreword – Ellen MacArthur Foundation
    • Preface – World Economic Forum
    • Executive Summary
    • Company Support
    • Acknowledgements
  • 1. The benefits of a circular economy
    • The limits of linear consumption
    • From linear to circular—Accelerating a proven concept
    • How it works up close—Case examples of circular products
    • An economic opportunity worth billions—Charting the new territory
  • 2. Why the time to act is now
    • Mounting pressure on resources
    • Favourable alignment of enablers
  • 3. What are the leakage points?
    • Losses due to geographic dispersion
    • Leakages due to materials complexity and proliferation
    • Trapped in the linear lock-in
  • 4. What are the solutions?
    • Set up global reverse networks
    • Reorganize and streamline pure materials flows
    • Innovate demand-focused business models
    • Focus on pure materials stock management at the outset
  • 5. Joining forces to make the change
    • Project charter
    • A clear plan of action
  • Back matter
    • Glossary
    • Literature
    • Appendix
    • List of figures
    • List of text boxes
    • References
Towards the circular economy: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains Home Previous Next
  • Report Home
  • About this report
    • Foreword – Ellen MacArthur Foundation
    • Preface – World Economic Forum
    • Executive Summary
    • Company Support
    • Acknowledgements
  • 1. The benefits of a circular economy
    • The limits of linear consumption
    • From linear to circular—Accelerating a proven concept
    • How it works up close—Case examples of circular products
    • An economic opportunity worth billions—Charting the new territory
  • 2. Why the time to act is now
    • Mounting pressure on resources
    • Favourable alignment of enablers
  • 3. What are the leakage points?
    • Losses due to geographic dispersion
    • Leakages due to materials complexity and proliferation
    • Trapped in the linear lock-in
  • 4. What are the solutions?
    • Set up global reverse networks
    • Reorganize and streamline pure materials flows
    • Innovate demand-focused business models
    • Focus on pure materials stock management at the outset
  • 5. Joining forces to make the change
    • Project charter
    • A clear plan of action
  • Back matter
    • Glossary
    • Literature
    • Appendix
    • List of figures
    • List of text boxes
    • References

Literature

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Benyus, J. “Biomimickry in Action”, posted 6 April 2009, at: Ted. Thoughts Worth Spreading. (http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/06/biomimicry_in_a/).

Botsman, R, Rogers, R. What’s Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live. 2010. Harper Business.

Chapman, A. et al., Remanufacturing in the U.K. – A Snapshot of the U.K. Remanufacturing Industry; Centre for Remanufacturing & Reuse report, August 2010.

Disruptive technologies: Advances that will Transform Life, Business, and the Global Economy, May 2013, McKinsey Global Institute.

Geng, Y., et al. “Measuring China’s Circular Economy”; Science; March 2013.

Global Risks 2012, Seventh Edition, Davos, World Economic Forum.

Hansen, K., Braungart, M., and Mulhall, D., “Resource Repletion”, The Springer Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Meyers, Robert A. (ed.), July 2012

Hunt, A. J., ed., Element Recovery and Sustainability, RSC Green Chemistry Series, Cambridge, 2013.

Lee, B., et al. Resources Futures. A Chatham House Report, London, 2012.

McDonough, W, Braungart, M. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, New York: North Point Press, 2002.

McDonough, W, Braungart, M., Clinton, W., The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance, North Point Press, 2013.

Parsons Brinckerhoff: Accelerating the uptake of CCS: Industrial use of captured carbon dioxide, 2011.

Sharing Economy Position Paper, World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Sharing Economy Working Group, 2013. 

Stahel, W., “Service, Performance or Goods,” Circular Economy Network, uploaded 1 June 2012 (http://de.slideshare.net/CircularEconomy/service-performance-or-goods-by-walter-stahel). 

Towards the Circular Economy 1: Economic and Business Rationale for an Accelerated Transition; January 2012, Cowes, Isle of Wight: Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Towards the Circular Economy 2: Opportunities for the consumer goods sector; January 2013, Cowes, Isle of Wight: Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Urban world and the rise of the consuming class; June 2012, McKinsey Global Institute.

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