Coro’s Blog: On Purpose

How the circular economy could end take-make-waste businesses

Published on December 4, 2015

Under the mainstream radar, businesses are innovating a new industrial paradigm: the closed loop (PDF) company.

The impetus? Our industrial economy is approaching a tipping point where the old “take-make-waste” business model will dead-end.

A growing and urbanizing global population and resource scarcity already are forcing some businesses to rethink their products based on the assumption of infinite and cheap material inputs.

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