Walter R. Stahel

CIRCULAR ECONOMY NAME: Siddharth Shukla STUDENT ID:500491513 Bangor Business School Date:8th December 2017 ASB-4413 INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MANAGMENT A Report Analysis on the Circular Economy using innovative ideas and different case studies of manufacturing and service sector. CONTENTS Executive summary Introduction Definition “A Circular economy as a regenerative system in which resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage

What is a circular economy, what are some of the key principles, concepts and building blocks and what system shifts might be needed to bring it about at scale? The growth of the middle class around the globe is currently driving the demand for branded goods. (EMF Report 2 2013) reports that Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates that the global middle class will increase from 1.9 billion in 2009 to 4.9 billion in 2030 with almost 90% of the growth coming from Asia-Pacific

Jay Kelkar B411900 MSc Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and Management MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING 14MMP409 Sustainable Development: The Engineering Context Individual Coursework Introduction The world is seeing the fastest growing consumer market till date with manufacturers introducing products to generate brand new markets. The consumption of resources has been on the rise and there exists tremendous potential for the recovery of materials and the products as a whole, for

A Functional Service Economy Green Business. Natural Capitalism. Eco-efficiency. An Eco-economy. These are terms used to describe the desired (and often purely conceptual) transformation of the private sector, from one of often flagrant resource use and disposal into a sustainable and ecologically concerned industry. ?The eco-efficiency imperative is based on the idea that companies must come to terms with the new realities of population growth, increased evidence of global warming, ozone