8 MILLION TONNES EVERY YEAR INTO OCEANS=
1 LARGE GARBAGE TRUCK PER MINUTE
IMAGE: Why Files IMAGE: EarthZine
TECHNICAL MATERIALS (LIKE PLASTICS) -DESIGNED TO BE RECOVERED, UPGRADED, REPAIRED, ETC
IMAGE: Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Household ‘Waste’
Landfill
OrganicPlastic Metal Paper Glass Non-Recyclable
Recycling
CURRENT HOUSEHOLD ‘WASTE’
Electronics
Household ‘Waste’
Landfill
Organic Non-Recyclable
Recycling Biogas
WE WOULD HAVE MATERIAL FLOWS
Plastic Metal Paper Glass Electronics
“DESIGN OUT” WASTE & DESIGN FOR AN END USE
REPLACE PS/EPS & PVCINNOVATE
REDESIGN / DESIGN OUT SCALE UP
WASTE TO WEALTH - UPLIFTING THE INFORMAL SECTOR
OTHER KEY STEPS FOR RECYCLING IN ASIA
LEGISLATION & INFRASTRUCTURE
EDUCATION/INVENTIVES
LABELLING + +
A NEW MINDSET:WHERE WASTE BECOMES
RESOURCE
URBANISATION -> 3X GROWTH IN URBAN WASTE IN ASIA BY 2025!
SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC, SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL
RETURNS
QUICK RECAP
WE NEED TO COLLABORATE & THINK SYSTEMICALLY
Fossil FuelEg. Shell
Polymer SupplierEg. Dow
Plastic ManufacturerEg. Amcor
FMCG CompanyEg. P&G Consumer
Waste Management Companies
Govt
Introducing Forum for the Future
Forum for the Future is an independent, international non-profit with a 20 year track record in driving sustainable development.
Our purpose is to accelerate the big shift to a sustainable future by transforming whole systems.
What we do with partnersto reinvent the way the world works
1Innovate solutions to systemic challenges
2 Develop and deliver transformational strategies
3 Equip people to drive systemic change
We partner with pioneering companies who recognise that sustainability issues are already shaping their business context today, and want to actively create the conditions for their future success.
Business opportunity
• Drive business and industrial innovation
• New sources of value creation
• Aligns with business priorities(i.e. eco-efficiency, risk management, decarbonisation, lean thinking, resilience)
Why circular economy?external pressures + business opportunity
External pressures
• Rising costs for material, energy, land and water
• Risk of resource constraints and price volatility
• Growing legislation placing responsibility on business
“The systemic nature of the circular economy requires both the ecosystem and its individual components to change. This means that governance, regulation and business models could potentially be even more important to achieving the transition than design and engineering.”
Gregory Hodkinson, Chairman, Arup (September 2016)
It’s not just about the technologytrust an engineer!
Our circular economy investigations revealedthe need for a value network perspective
Disruptive innovation requires new relationships to access to a greater variety of assets and capabilities.
Circular business models requires re-aligned interests so there is a new flow of value to drive the more sustainable performance.
To get started you need a dynamic community of interested parties – the ‘source material’ for new relationships
The main barriers to a circular economy are not primarily technical
There are circular business models
Thinking in terms of ‘business model’ is useful
Yes!
Sort of
As it turns out, not really!
= value network
Value network?here’s an example
• Industrial aluminium company, HQ-ed in the US, subsidiary of Aditya Birla (Indian conglomerate)
• World’s largest producer of rolled aluminium sheet
• Serves customers in automotive, beverage cans, consumer electronics and construction sectors
• World’s largest aluminium recycler
• 2020 targets:• Zero waste to landfill (from 60 K mt baseline)• 80% recycled metal content (up from 30% baseline
announced in 2011, achieved 53% in 2016)
• Minimise primary aluminium input • 95% reduction in GHG emissions associated with primary
aluminium production
• Minimise aluminium waste generated by customer production processes and consumer use of end-product
Novelisan example
To close the loop on materials, there is a huge amount of knowledge transfer required between different players in the value network
Blue arrows → where Novelis cannot make change happen on its own
A value network perspectivenot a simple feat
• Challenges traditional areas of control and influence - and encourages greater collaboration
• For some this may mean relinquishing control and sharing the ownership (and value) of the results
• “Giving up part of the pie to grow the pie”
Impact first: As an NGO, we exist to catalyse change, and that’s our sole motivation.
Positive and ambitious: We believe a sustainable future is possible - we’re tracking signals all the time - but we’ll only work with people who share our appetite for bold leadership.
Partnership and collaboration: System change is only possible when ‘unusual suspects’ work together – we make that happen.
Forum for the Future is an independent, global non-profit with a 20 year track record in driving change towards a sustainable future.
www.forumforthefuture.org@forum4thefuture
Jiehui Kia
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