Waste to Wealth

The Circular Economy Advantage

Peter Lacy, Jakob Rutqvist

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781137530684
• eBook ISBN: 9781137530707
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully.

Notes

Executive Summary

1. Accenture analysis based on World Bank data. (Pink sheets)

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7. Drawing on primary and secondary research, Accenture analyzed more than 120 case studies on companies representing a wide range of geographies and industries, with the most prevalent being companies in Europe or North America and in the textile, high-tech and apparel industries.

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1 On Borrowed Time

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3. Accenture analysis based on data from: Stephan Lutter, Stefan Giljum, and Mirko Lieber, “Global Material Flow Database,” March 2014, http://www.materialflows.net/fileadmin/docs/materialflows.net/SERI_WU_MFA_technical_report_final_20140317.pdf; The World Bank GDP data, accessed September 9, 2014. http://data.worldbank.org/.

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5. Accenture analysis based on data from: The World Bank, “World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet),” December 2014, http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/0,,contentMDK:21574907~menuPK:7859231~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:476883,00.html.

6. Accenture analysis based on data from: The World Bank, “World Bank Commodity Price Data.”

7. OECD Development Center and Homi Kharas, “The Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries; Working Paper No. 285,” January 2010, http://www.oecd.org/development/pgd/44457738.pdf.

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9. Accenture analysis.

10. Much has been written on this topic. Some selected wo...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• A Note from the Authors
• Forewords
• Executive Summary
• Section I The Case for the Circular Economy
• Section II Five New Business Models for Circular Growth
• Section III Creating Circular Advantage
• Section IV Starting Now
• Methodology
• Appendix: Data Tables from Modeling
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Notes
• Index