Episode 40 – Sharing data and values

I’m excited to let you know that the 2nd edition of A Circular Economy Handbook is now on sale. Whoopee!

It’s been a long wait. It should have been published in the summer, but the UK book industry went into lockdown, with printers and wholesalers either closed or understaffed. Now, it’s finally on sale, in print or ebook versions.

Thank you to the editorial, publishing and marketing teams at Kogan Page, and to all those people who helped with feedback and provided endorsements. And a big thank you to those who wrote contributions, including Richard James MacCowan and Katie Beverley for their new sections on biomimicry and ecodesign.

I’ll tell you a bit more about the 2nd edition and give you a code for a 20% discount at the end of this episode, so get your notepads ready!

In this episode, we’re rounding up some of the themes emerging from the last nine conversations. We’ve talked to people in Australia, the US, the Netherlands and the UK.

We’ve spoken to two organisations making fantastic products out of waste, particularly waste plastics. We’ve talked to a remanufacturer of beautiful, high-quality office furniture, and we’ve talked to several businesses helping to ‘intensify’ resource loops, so we can get more use and productivity out of many different kinds of resources, everything from equipment to staff. 

One of the themes I noticed is that people everywhere are wanting to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. It’s becoming a motivator for companies, and being factored into decisions, particularly for procurement. We’ll come back to that later.