Global Partners of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation:

9 December 2015 – AISE, Brussels

Jocelyn

Blériot

@jossbleriot

Today’s linear economy - ‘take, make and dispose”

New products = new raw materials

Recycling at “end-of-pipe”

Waste is chronically high

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THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY – RESTORATIVE

AND REGENERATIVE BY DESIGN

Preserve and enhance natural capital by

controlling finite stocks and balancing

renewable resource flows

Optimise resource yields by

circulating products,

components and materials in

use at the highest utility at all

times in both technical and

biological cycles

Foster system effectiveness

by revealing and designing

out negative externalities

PRINCIPLE 3

PRINCIPLE 2

PRINCIPLE 1

SOURCE: Growth Within (2015) - Ellen MacArthur Foundation; Stiftungsfonds für Umweltökonomie und Nachhaltigkeit

(SUN); McKinsey Center for Business and Environment; Drawing from Braungart & McDonough Cradle to Cradle

(C2C)

“Bioeconomy refers to an economy that relies on renewable natural

resources to produce food, energy, products and services.”

Source: Finnish Bioeconomy Strategy