to Go for More Education Chapter 21: A Global Vision of a Circular Economy Seeing What a Circular Community Looks Like Seeing What a Circular University Looks Like Seeing What a Circular Restaurant and Brewery Look Like
10 Part 6: The Part of Tens Chapter 22: Ten Questions to Ask About Your Material Lifecycle Where Did This Material Come From? What Are the By-Products of Harvesting This Material? What Are the By-Products of Manufacturing This Material? How Is the Material Delivered? How Is the Material Installed? How Is the Material Maintained, Powered, or Operated? How Healthy Are the Materials? What Can We Do with These Materials After We’re Done with Them? What Can Be Done to Extend, Prolong, or Maintain the Material? What Can We Do to Encourage the Reuse, Refurbishment, Redistribution, or Remanufacture of the Material? Chapter 23: Ten Questions to Foster Innovative Thinking How Can We Make This Product Redundant? How Can We Rethink How This Product Is Used? How Can We Reduce the Resources or Materials Used? In What Ways Can This Product Be Reused by Another Consumer? In What Ways Can This Product Be More Easily Maintained and Repaired? In What Ways Can This Product Be Restored or Kept Up-to-Date? How Can Discarded Parts Be Remade into a New Version of the Same Product? How Can Discarded Parts Be Remade Into a New Product? In What Ways Can We Recycle These Materials into Quality Products? How Can We Dispose of This Material in a Manner That Recovers Energy? Chapter 24: Ten Questions to Ask about Your Supply Chain What Drives Your Product Design? What Are Your Users' Needs? Will Your Customers Access or Will They Own Your Product? Who Are Your Partners? What Materials Are Required? How Will You Produce Your Product? How Will Users Receive Your Product? How Will You Support the Repair and Maintenance of Your Product? What Refurbishment Options Will You Offer for Your Product? How Will You Reclaim Your Product at Its End of Life? Chapter 25: Ten Questions That Reveal How Much Your Waste Is Costing You What Labor Costs Are Tied to Waste Disposal? What Is the Real Cost of Waste Disposal? What Is the Impact on Human Health? How Does Waste Impact Ecosystem Services? What Is the Innate Value of Waste? How Much Raw Material Is Required to Offset Waste? What Are the Indirect Costs of Waste? How Much Does Poor Efficiency Cost? What Natural Resources Are Required for Waste? What Waste Remediation Will Be Required?
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List of Tables
1 Chapter 2TABLE 2-1 Prescription for the FutureTABLE 2-2: Comparing Circular and Linear Economies
2 Chapter 13TABLE 13-1: Plastic Types and Applications
3 Chapter 16TABLE 16-1 Design Goals for a Circular EconomyTABLE 16-2 Circular Design First Principles
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: The typical approach to making clothing is the linear model.FIGURE 2-2: Having one fewer child, which saves 65 tons of carbon emissions per...FIGURE 2-3: If you compare population growth to carbon emissions, you see a dir...
2 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: Determining external costs.FIGURE 4-2: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
3 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: The ReSOLVE circular framework, highlighting the circular economy's...
4 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: A product has two prices: the retail price you pay and the hidden p...
5 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: Companies spend a lot of money on R&D.FIGURE 7-2: The five steps to crafting a circular business model.FIGURE 7-3: Telling your brand's story.FIGURE 7-4: Making a list and