Chapter 8
’Round and ’Round: Making Your Products Circular
IN THIS CHAPTER
Investigating material lifecycle performance
Exploring how to make material lifecycles smarter
Identifying the basics of creating circular products
Managing industry's material lifecycle performance is the pathway on which the global economy can transition from a linear way of operation to a circular one. Assessing and improving the sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, usage, and end-of-life management of the products that people rely on is the only way to make the circular economy a reality. For the longest time, initial cost optimization has been the driving force behind the global markets that people depend on today. Unfortunately, this linear way of managing resources isn’t sustainable and must be drastically changed to support later generations.
How can material lifecycles be improved? Generating products that are designed for reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling eliminates much of the waste and pollution that stems from raw material extraction and the disposal of waste after a product has been used. The materials and products people rely on can become circular by creating effective and serviceable ...
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