Circular economy
Imagine a waste-free future for your business, your family, and yourself A circular economy is an economic system designed to save money, eliminate waste, and achieve deep sustainability. No-brainer, right? Circular Economy For Dummies explains why the old way of doing things (linear economy)...
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Hoboken, N.J.:
John Wiley
c2021.
Hoboken, New Jersey : [2021] |
| Colección: | --For dummies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- How This Book Is Organized
- Part 1: Linear Is Out, Circular Is In: An Economic Revolution
- Part 2: Rethinking Business for a Circular Economy
- Part 3: Rethinking Material Lifecycles - The Circular Perspective
- Part 4: Redesigning the Future to Be Circular
- Part 5: Creating a Circular Economy for All
- Part 6: The Part of Tens
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1 Linear Is Out, Circular Is In: An Economic Revolution
- Chapter 1 Rejecting Waste, Rethinking Materials, and Redesigning the World
- Rejecting the Idea of Waste
- Waste as a driver of the economy
- Waste as a resource
- Rethinking Material Lifecycles
- Take, make, and waste
- Making technical materials circular
- Making biological materials circular
- Upcycling versus downcycling
- Redesigning the Future to Be Circular
- Food production
- Circular businesses, products, and clothing
- A circular economy for all
- Chapter 2 What's Wrong with Being Linear, Anyway?
- We're Taking the Wrong Stuff
- We're not importing this stuff from space
- Everyone keeps having kids
- We don't have as much as we thought
- It all revolves around oil
- We're Making the Wrong Stuff
- You're buying trash
- Even kids can build with blocks
- Trying to recycle the unrecyclable
- We're using materials that are bad for us
- We're Wasting the Wrong Stuff
- It all comes at a big cost
- We're running out of room
- It's expensive to throw things away
- The debt collector is knocking at the door
- Change Is Really Hard, We Know
- If it ain't broke, don't fix it
- Taking risks
- Chapter 3 A Growing Demand for a Circular Economy
- The Drive to Make Money
- Redefining risk and liability.
- Innovating to attract new customers
- The Drive to Be Healthier
- Lifestyles that foster health and sustainability
- Wellness as a priority
- The Drive to Be in Compliance
- Environmental, social, and corporate governance
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- Climate and shareholders
- A Larger Drive Toward Deep Sustainability
- This has been brewing for a while
- Precedents
- Looking to the future
- Chapter 4 From Linear To Circular: What You Need To Know
- So Much Chaos: Understanding Entropy
- Externalized costs
- Linear versus circular: A hilarious- yet-depressing comparison
- Borrow from nature, not from the future
- Waste = Food: Redefining Disposal
- All materials have another use
- Product stewardship
- Building Resilience Through Diversity: Redefining Strength
- Responding to disruption
- Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'
- Durability and reparability policies
- Part 2 Rethinking Business for a Circular Economy
- Chapter 5 Identifying Your Business Opportunities
- Exploring the Benefits of Going Circular
- Exploiting the profit opportunities
- Reducing volatility and ensuring greater supply chain security
- Managing the new demand for business services
- Improving customer interaction and loyalty
- Rethinking the Business Model
- Building new types of capital
- Rethinking money as the only medium of exchange
- Reflecting the true cost of products
- Embracing diversity
- Rethinking your supply chain
- Designing for the future
- Examining Business from a Global Perspective
- Chapter 6 Rethinking the Conventional Business Model
- Rethinking How We Look at Cost
- The hidden cost of procurement
- The hidden impact of transportation
- The hidden burden of inventory
- The hidden secrets of quality
- Maximizing Your Value Proposition to Customers
- Becoming a mission-driven company.
- Safeguarding your workers
- Greenwashing
- Turning Obstacles into Opportunities
- Listening to customers
- Creating unspoken demand
- Rethinking old assumptions
- Bending linear into loops
- Thinking of businesses as a system
- Chapter 7 Exploring the Essentials of a Circular Business Model
- The Six Rs: Your New Circularity Mantra
- Refuse: Say no to what you don't need
- Reduce: Use less for longer
- Reuse and remanufacture: Extend product life
- Repurpose: Find other uses
- Recycle: Return materials for rebirth
- Rot: Return it to the soil
- Developing a Circular Business Structure: The Bones of the Operation
- Identifying potential material loops
- Considering innovative business models
- Who's at the table? Engaging your stakeholders
- Developing a message
- Benchmarking and improvement
- Chapter 8 'Round and 'Round: Making Your Products Circular
- Managing Material Lifecycle Performance
- Designing products for reuse
- Designing products to be remanufactured
- Designing products for recycling
- Making Your Product Lifecycle Smarter
- Creating effective and serviceable products
- Being flexible
- Seeking collaborators and partners
- How It All Comes Together
- Everything is circular first
- Everything is transparent
- Chapter 9 From Trash to Treasure: Converting Waste into Products
- Seeing Why the Circular Economy Is All About Retaining Value
- Stop Being Linear: It's a Waste of Time
- Why Buy Waste When You Can Sell It?
- Selling your old stuff
- Starting your own business
- Troubleshooting a Wasteful Product Lifecycle
- Where the wild things are
- Signed, sealed, delivered
- Waste not, want not
- Being a sustainable shopper
- Finding value in the ugly
- Part 3 Rethinking Material Lifecycles: The Circular Perspective
- Chapter 10 Understanding the Circular Material Lifecycle.
- Viewing the Entire Spectrum of Environmental Impact
- Defining degenerative lifecycles
- Defining sustainable lifecycles
- Defining regenerative lifecycles
- Understanding the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Butterfly Diagram
- Examining the circular economy's structure: The bones of the operation
- Renewables flow management: Harnessing biological cycles
- Stock management: Optimizing technical cycles
- Promoting environmental restoration: Investing now to obtain even more later
- Chapter 11 Analyzing Material Lifecycle Processes
- Looking at Material Processes
- Fostering transparency
- Instituting chemical management
- Rewarding innovation
- The Lifecycle Principles: Identifying Where Change Can Happen
- Preserving natural capital
- Enhancing the usefulness of products, components, and raw materials
- Developing effective systems that minimize negative externalities
- Looking at Opportunities for Optimization
- Refusing the new: Reusing the old
- Employing the remaining factor: Remanufacturing
- Biochemical extraction for the win
- Chapter 12 Improving the Material Lifecycle
- Improving How Material Lifecycles Function
- Looking at Materials in a New Way
- Getting to know your lifecycle
- Refuse before you reduce, reuse, and recycle
- Examining Operations in a New Way
- Looking at human capital
- You can be everywhere
- Connecting Sourcing, Suppliers, and Customers
- Chapter 13 It All Comes Down to Selecting the Right Materials
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Exploring Materials
- Oil or Plastics - They're Really Much the Same Thing
- What's Harder than Rock? Metals
- Paper Products and Cardboard
- Through the Looking Glass
- And Everything In-Between
- Identifying Hazardous Materials
- Red list materials
- Red list material alternatives
- Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
- Sourcing, Ethics, and Standards.
- Understanding strategic sourcing
- Establishing ethics
- Exploring certifications and standards
- Chapter 14 Circular Materials, Products, and Packaging
- Redesigning Materials and Products: The Transition from Linear to Circular
- "Less bad" does not equal "good"
- Planning for material reincarnation
- How To Keep Materials In Use Forever
- Why things break
- From planned obsolescence to planned permanence
- Shipping Global versus Producing Local
- Building a regional economy: A shipping substitute
- You've got to be shipping me
- Permanent packaging
- Part 4 Redesigning the Future to be Circular
- Chapter 15 The Circular Economy of Food Production
- Examining the Two Ways of Producing Food
- Investigating the Hidden Costs of Agriculture
- Food waste: Expending money, time, and resources unnecessarily
- Environmental degeneration: Damaging the planet with increasing speed
- Permaculture to the Rescue
- Following nature's lead: Permaculture design principles
- Taking a look at permaculture management zones
- Chapter 16 Circularity for Design
- Redesigning Design
- Understanding circular design
- Designing out waste
- Keeping products and materials in use
- Regenerating natural systems
- Recognizing the Problems Designers Face
- We're being overtaken by trash
- We're running out of materials
- We're choking on carbon
- Creating a Framework for Circular Design
- Applying the ReSOLVE framework to buildings
- Layers of useful life
- Putting the pieces together
- Chapter 17 Circular Economy for Builders, Makers, and Manufacturers
- Assessing a Building's Lifecycle
- Defining construction and demolition debris
- Gauging the economic opportunities of C&
- D waste
- Measuring C&
- D waste impact
- Defining lifecycle impacts
- Identifying human health hazards and promoting transparency.
- People, planet and profit.
