This first course in the Sustainable and Circular Product Development specialization provides the tools necessary to implementCircular Economy (CE) principles. Methodologies include Cradle-to-Cradle, ...

Driven by government regulations, consumer demand, and the necessity of meeting climate and sustainability targets, societies and businesses have begun the transition toward a circular economy. In a ...

What are the standards that can help guide you to optimizing the overall product lifecycle from initial manufacturing to end-of-life treatment? How to achieve longer product lifecycles to improve ...

Designing electronics for a circular economy requires companies to communicate more openly and collaborate more closely, said Accenture’s Teun van Wetten. Challenges in developing a circular economy.

Businesses that adopt a circular philosophy are more likely to survive and thrive going forward, says Anne van Riel, Head of Sustainable Finance Americas at ING. Following a difficult 2018, IKEA has ...

The Circular Economy is about zero waste, where products are disassembled into their constituent components, either to be recycled or composted. While considerable attention has been on the product ...

Europe will generate 683,000 tons of composite waste in 2025. The global recycling capacity is currently under 100,000 tons. Until we can find better ways to repurpose these materials, over half a ...

The circular economy represents a fundamental shift in the way resources, energy and information flow through our economy. A key characteristic of this framework is that products and components remain ...

When times are tough, the instinct of many executives is to squeeze existing assets: make platforms do more with less, reduce the total cost of ownership, and extract value through cuts. One study ...