By harnessing technology-driven insights, manufacturers have the capacity to redesign themselves and their products to maximise reuse and recycling as a share of overall resource use.
Only around 19% of the approximate 90 billion tonnes of raw materials extracted worldwide each year is currently recycled or composted, with about 81% dumped, incinerated or sent to landfill, according to Deloitte’s estimates, and that volume is expected to double by 2060. Meanwhile, the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, the global group focused on promoting the…
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