This document discusses the circular economy and highlights several key points:
1. It presents a diagram showing the technical and biological material cycles of a circular economy, including reuse, maintenance, refurbishment, remanufacturing, and closed material loops.
2. It notes that substantial value can be unlocked for organizations through circular practices like cost savings, revenue growth, and strategic repositioning.
3. It lists some of the building blocks needed for a circular economy, including skills in circular product design and new business models.
4. It provides several examples of companies implementing circular models through practices like product servitization, reuse/remanufacturing, and performance-based models.
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The Circular Economy a system restorative by design to
retain more volume and value within the economy
SOURCE: Ellen MacArthur Foundation CE team
1 Hunting and fishing
2 Can take both post-harvest and post-consumer waste as an input
3 Refurbish/remanufacture and recycle across value chains, i.e., materials do not reenter own value chain anymore
Biochemical
feedstock
Parts
manufacturer
Product
manufacturer
Service provider
Biological materials Technical materials
Consumer User
Landfill
Biosphere
Farming/
collection1
Reuse/
redistribute
Maintain
CollectionCollection
Mining/materials
manufacturing
Extraction of
biochemical
feedstock2
Restora-
tion
Cascades
Biogas
Anaerobic
digestion/
composting
Energy recovery
I
II
Leakageto
be minimized
Yieldto be
maximized
RecycleIV
Refurbish/
remanufacture
III
Cyclesto be
tightened
Other
value
chain続
V Cas-
cade3
3. 3
Substantial value pools can be unlocked for organizations
by going circular
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SOURCE: McKinsey's CE Special Initiative
Renault cut the total costs of ownership of cutting fluid (input and process) by
33% through CE collaboration with suppliers
Cost
savings
Reduced
material volume
Reduced
material prices
Reduced input
prices
Revenue
growth
Reduced material
price volatility
Participation in
secondary sales
Capturing premium
via non-sales
based services
Growing market
share
Strategic
reposi-
tioning
Stimulating
innovation
Regulatory
strategy
Tighter control of
supply chain
Sources of value creation
Vodafone Red Hot program gives access to latest phone and helped stabilize
market share dilution
SABMiller helps maintain market dominance in South Africa due to the use of
returnable glass bottles
Ricoh established a "GreenLine" product achieving significant sales volume in
otherwise untapped market segments and high profitability (twice that of new
products)
Bosch hedged material price volatility by bringing material back at pre-agreed
prices
Supplier of H&M is able to substitute 40% of virgin fibers with recycled ones,
which would otherwise be lost to waste
Teijin developed the ECOCIRCLE and developed proprietary process to recycle
polyester creating strategic lock-in with Patagonia
Philips committed to using 10% recycled plastics in their products by 2015,
staving off potential EU EcoDesign regulations
B&Q/Kingfisher collaborated closely with raw material supplier and manufacturer
to develop and source for circular product line
Impact case examples
Lend Lease used scaffolding wood from construction process in furnishing and
landscaping of the London Olympic Village
4. 4
Building blocks of a circular economywhats needed to
win
Skills in circular
product design
and production
New business
models
Skills in building
cascades/ reverse
cycles
Enablers to improve
cross-cycle and cross-
sector performance
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Rolls-Royce Maximizing downtime and minimizing
maintenance cost for its airline customers
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Caterpillar Reman Avoiding competition and reputation
risk from the gray market
SOURCE: Company web site
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Bosch eXchange Serving cost-conscious owners of
older vehicles
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Michelin Escaping commoditization and locks in customers
with a pay-per-kilometer program
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9. 9
DriveNow Addressing dwindling car ownership
SOURCE: Company web site
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