Stringing the Pearls: Finding your Loop in the Circular Economy
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1st draft intro:
We know the circular economy is coming. Its happening in our world whether we want to adjust or not.
Governments, economies, industries, businesses educational institutions, and non-profits around the world are all working to understand the profound changes it brings, the opportunities, and the practices we will have to change. Governmental regulators and non-profits are working to create it's boundaries, but Industries, global companies and even tech start ups are at the cutting edge of putting together the pieces to make it happen.
It's like stringing pearls. together. We are all an expert on our pearl, and we may see a couple of other pearls that should go on our string, but how to we start our string, and find our place on it? this string of pearls is sometimes called a loop in circular economy discussions because in comparison to the Horizontal line of inputs, throughputs and outputs, that existed since indutstrialization it is a continuous circle, or Loop.
Moving to a Circular Economy is a self-organizing collective response to every driving economic force of the day. Forces like Climate change, population growth, population concentration, habitat loss, Landfill space disappearance, Food insecurity, Scarcity of water, Ocean waste, Air and water resource reduction. Energy generation pollution, contaminating emissions; the economic justice and producer responsibility movements. Opposition to combustion of any kind.....what else...
1. Understanding your material's Life Cycle
- molecule in the future will go through multiple loops;
- Shortest available Loop is most energy efficient
- Chemical Recycling is the Longest Loop
- Pyrolysis is currently the longest loop in chemical recycling
- Not all pyrolysis systems produce the same results
- purer break downs
- increase CR Speed and reduce cost
- Shorten the Pyrolysis Loop
- Shortage of Pyrolysis Testers
- To Partner or Not to Partner: are you a pearl or a necklace
- The Pearls:
- Designers
- Manufacturers
- Refurbishes
- Parts Dealers
- Salavagers
- Mechanical Recyclers
- Chemical Recyclers
- Supply Chains -for both sides of the Loop
- Case Studies: The Loops
- Small Loop
- Large Loop
Governments, economies, industries, businesses educational institutions, and non-profits around the world know the circular economy is coming. We are all working to understand the profound changes it brings, the opportunities, and the practices we have taken for granted we will have to change. Governmental regulators and non-profits are working to create it's boundaries, but Industries, global companies and even tech start ups are at the cutting edge of trying to put the pieces together. It's like stringing pearls. together. We are all an expert on our pearl, and you may see a couple of other pearls that should go on our string, but how to we find our string, and our place on it?
Moving to a Circular Economy is a self-organizing collective response to every driving economic force of the day. Forces like Climate change, population growth, population concentration, habitat loss, Landfill space disappearance, Food insecurity, Scarcity of water, Ocean waste, Air and water resource reduction. Energy generation pollution, contaminating emissions; the economic justice and producer responsibility movements. Opposition to combustion of any kind.....what else...
Its happening to our world whether we want to adjust or not.
Instead of responding jpeicemeal lto these issues, a systemic change
The change is like walking for a life time and coming to a shore. You either stop where you are, or learn to swim to keep moving. If a move to Post industrial society created the service industry have a century ago, then next Step beyond this is the circular society.
During the design phase, consider all the steps in the product life including raw material inputs, production, transportation & storage, retailing, consumer use and the 3Rs Solutions from the World Economic Forum 1. Set up global reverse networks for products & components 2. Innovate demand-focused business models 3. Focus on pure materials stock management
Steps
each step at the same same pace
1. Assess
2. Design the best-in-class objective
3. Create departmentally Integrated tactical solutions with common phase Lines
4. create KPIs
5. Create an internal and external communication plan
6. Integrate the Journey into your culture using LARK
L Gather Legends
A . Create accessible artifacts
R. Rites and Ceremonies
K. Kindle safe correction
Circular Principles at all levels
- Measure all resources used and produced by my organization
- Water
- Energy
- Emissions
- Co-products
- Waste
- Design products to account for their full life cycle,
- Maintenance
- Refurbish
- Reuse
- Disassembl to resources
- Re-use
- Convert to base resources at their highest value
- Build products accounting for all costs
- Establish reverse supply chains
including product design, aiming to keep plastics in the economy and out of the environment, reduce virgin plastic production and use, and decouple plastic production from the consumption of finite resources.
My Machinery
My Buildings
My Suppliers
My product Designs
My Products
My Operations
People Figuring it out
https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/
https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/towards-a-un-treaty-on-plastic-pollution
https://www.holcim.com/what-we-do/circular-construction?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=wefdavos2023&gclid=CjwKCAiAleOeBhBdEiwAfgmXfzsGi3YN-jbKwrKcR-AOupJCx5YNDuZkZoVWhSOoVgU65ioTqaRlDhoCWRkQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
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