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Waste to Wealth
The Circular Economy Advantage
Peter Lacy, Jakob Rutqvist
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Waste to Wealth
The Circular Economy Advantage
Peter Lacy, Jakob Rutqvist
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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.
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1. Accenture analysis based on World Bank data. (Pink sheets)
2. Macrotrends website, âCrude Oil Price History Chartâ, accessed December 10, 2014, http://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart.
3. âWorld Poverty Statisticsâ, Statistic Brain, accessed November 20, 2014, http://www.statisticbrain.com/world-poverty-statistics/.
4. MyWays website, accessed December 1, 2014, https://www.myways.com/
5. http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2014/08/20/how-mixing-data-and-fashion-can-make-rent-the-runway-techs-next-billion-dollar-star/
6. SKF Group, âSKF launches SKF Insightâ˘, groundbreaking intelligent bearing technologyâ, April 8, 2013, http://www.skf.com/group/news-and-media/news-search/2013-04-08-skf-launches-skf-insight-groundbreaking-intelligent-bearing-technology.html.
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.
8. âAkzoNobel and Photanol Developing Chemical Compounds of the Futureâ, company press release, September 17, 2014, https://www.akzonobel.com/news_center/news/news_and_press_releases/2014/akzonobel_and_photanol_developing_chemical_compounds_of_the_future.aspx.
9. MarketsandMarkets, âRenewable Chemicals Market worth $83.4 Billion by 2018â, company press release, June 24, 2013, http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/PressReleases/renewable-chemical.asp.
10. Dr. Forbes McDougall, âFrom waste to worth â zeroing in on wasteâ, Inside P&G, accessed September 9, 2014, http://www.pg.com/en_UK/news-views/Inside_PG-Quarterly_Newsletter/issue8/sustainability.html.
11. âGM Makes the Business Case for Zero Wasteâ, company news release, October 19, 2012, https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2012/Oct/1019_Landfill-FreeBlueprint.html.
12. Dell, âDell Outlet â Go Green and Save Some Greenâ, accessed February 3, 2015, http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/22/campaigns/outlet-green-usdfh.
13. Caterpillar, âCommon Good: Sustainability That Benefits Our Customers, Stockholders, People and Planetâ, 2013 Sustainability Report, p. 57, http://reports.caterpillar.com/sr/_pdf/CAT2013SR.pdf.
14. Yerdle website: https://yerdle.com/about. Accessed October 28, 2014.
15. Douglas MacMillan, Sam Schechner, and Lisa Fleisher, âUber Snags $41 Billion Valuationâ, The Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2014, http://www.wsj.com/articles/ubers-new-funding-values-it-at-over-41-billion-1417715938.
16. Allied Market Research, âGlobal LED Market Is Expected to Reach $42.7 Billion by 2020â, company press release, September 11, 2014, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-led-market-is-expected-to-reach-427-billion-by-2020---allied-market-research-274728291.html.
17. United Nations Global Compact and Accenture, âThe UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study on Sustainability 2013: Architects of a Better Worldâ, September 2013, http://www.accenture.com/Microsites/ungc-ceo-study/Documents/pdf/13-1739_UNGC%20report_Final_FSC3.pdf.
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1. UNEP, âResponsible Resource Management for a Sustainable World: Findings from the International Resource Panel,â 2012, http://www.unep.org/resourcepanel/Portals/24102/PDFs/SYNOPSIS%20Final%20compressed.pdf.
2. WWF, âLiving Planet Report 2014: species and spaces, people and places,â 2014, http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/.
3. Accenture analysis based on data from: Stephan Lutter, Stefan Giljum, and Mirko Lieber, âGlobal Material Flow Database,â 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/.
4. The Conference Board, Total Economy Databaseâ˘, accessed January 2013, http://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase.
5. Accenture analysis based on data from: The World Bank, âWorld Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet),â 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, âWorld Bank Commodity Price Data.â
7. OECD Development Center and Homi Kharas, âThe Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries; Working Paper No. 285,â January 2010, http://www.oecd.org/development/pgd/44457738.pdf.
8. Linda Yueh, âThe rise of the global middle class,â BBC News, June 18, 2013, http://www.bbc.com/news/business-22956470.
9. Accenture analysis.
10. Much has been written on this topic. Some selected wo...