Regeneration through industrial processes
Circular economy strategies for the technosphere;
- Share (products) & maintain (products)
Shaw Industries sell carpet usage as a flooring service, maintain the carpets, and take back the carpets to be refurbished, repaired and re-used. Phillips lighting sells lighting as a service, instead of selling light bulbs which alternately would have increased electronic waste.
Marks & Spencer introduced a programme where clothes can be returned to their stores, to be reused, recycled or upcycled.
Clothes, shoes, and electronic items can be repaired instead of being discarded which would increase their lifetime.
Semiconductor manufacturer Applied Materials has a business segment for global services such as integrated solutions to optimize equipment, performance and productivity. This includes spares, upgrades, services, certain remanufactured earlier generation equipment, and factory automation software.
- Remanufacture (components)
GE Healthcare remanufactures components in its medical imaging devices, and the device therefore comes with a comprehensive warranty, as the team takes care to remanufacture when the device begins to give trouble.
Looptworks creates 100% upcycled goods using textile waste.
Flooring company Desso uses recyclable yarn in its carpets, that can be separated, and used over and over again.