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Home / Newsletter Anvarta Spotlight – Issue #10 Welcome to the 11th edition of Anvarta Spotlight! With 2026 around the corner, it is time to reflect and note some of
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Home / Newsletter Anvarta Spotlight – Issue #10 Welcome to the 11th edition of Anvarta Spotlight! With 2026 around the corner, it is time to reflect and note some of

Home / Newsletter Anvarta Spotlight – Issue #10 Welcome to the 10th edition of Future’s Blueprint. We’re thrilled to bring you all the latest news, insights, and updates from the

Home / Newsletter Anvarta Spotlight – Issue #9 Welcome to the latest edition of Future’s Blueprint. We’re thrilled to bring you all the latest news, insights, and updates from the

Home / Newsletter Anvarta Spotlight- Issue #6 Welcome to the latest edition of Future’s Blueprint. We’re thrilled to bring you all the latest news, insights, and updates from the industry.

Home / Newsletter The Future’s Blueprint – Issue #5 This month’s insight – Strategies for a circular economy Product Stewardship– The responsibility lays with us As a concept, product Stewardship

Home / Newsletter The Future’s Blueprint – Issue #4 This Month’s Insight – Comparative measurement for a circular economy – Tools to assess the environmental impact Lifecycle Assessment – A look

Home / Newsletter The Future’s Blueprint – Issue #3 This month’s insight – Materials for a circular economy Biochar – How it contributes to the biological cycle in a circulareconomy?

Home / Newsletter The Future’s Blueprint – Issue #2 A crisis also provides an opportunity… As economies around the world are on the verge of significant downturns, Sri Lanka issued

Home / Newsletter Creating the Future’s Blueprint A campaign to inform alternative ways of consumption Here is our first campaign this year focusing on 10 simple shifts we can make in

Home / Newsletter Circular Economy thinking in designing cities Cities account for over 70% of global CO2 emissions. An increase in transportation and industrial buildings emerging as prominent contributors to

Home / Not all circular economy strategies are meant to be equal. In the transition to a circular economy, we often hear about recycling — and while it’s important, it’s

Home / “We want to go circular—but where are the options?” If you’ve tried sourcing sustainable or circular solutions lately, chances are you’ve run into this. – Limited product visibility–

Home / Recycling isn’t enough — here’s what comes next We’ve all seen it. Bins full of “recyclables.” Trucks on the road. Factories breaking materials down. And yet — our

Home / Capability building isn’t just a buzzword. It’s the foundation for a true shift toward a circular economy. Capability building to drive change may mean different things in

Home / What skills will define the future of advanced manufacturing? Together with The Gordon TAFE, City of Greater Geelong, Geelong Manufacturing Council, Geelong Tech School and Skilling the Bay,

Home / On paper, carbon markets are brilliant: On paper, carbon markets are brilliant: put a price on pollution, fund solutions like protecting forests or building solar farms, and funnel

Home / Is Trust the Critical Factor in Carbon Markets? Carbon markets carry significant potential to accelerate decarbonization. Their impact, however, depends on strengthening trust among all stakeholders. 1️⃣ Consumers

Home / The Hidden Flaws in Carbon Credits You Should Know Carbon credits can drive climate action, and there are three key factors that become significant in qualifying for them,

Home / We begin life surrounded by gifts, soft toys, tiny clothes, the colors of care. They mark our beginnings, then slowly fade into drawers, boxes, or forgotten corners of

Home / What are the opportunities for the hospitality industry to better design for a circular economy? You might say – Packaging! Yes, it is an opportunity. But what about

Home / “What has been will be again… there is nothing new under the sun.” — Ecclesiastes 1:9 It turns out, innovation isn’t always about breaking new ground; sometimes, it’s

Home / Why Board Buy-In Matters for Sustainability Transformation As organisations prepare for the upcoming Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS), many are recognising that real progress on reducing the resource

Home / Some things we buy stay with us for years. Others, we use once and forget. How do we access what we require, without locking resources into cupboards, garages, or landfills?

Home / Every celebration glows bright and fades beneath what it leaves behind. Mountains of wrapping paper, ribbons, and packaging tell a quiet story of what gets unwrapped and left behind.

Home / The Rise of Shared-Use Design What if products created more value after each use, not less? Shared-use models are now emerging as a practical lever for optimising resource

Home / Why Repair Still Matters. We live in a world where upgrading feels easier than repairing. But every time we choose to fix rather than replace, we extend the

Home / Remanufacturing is a growth strategy, not a cost Remanufacturing used to be considered a niche activity—an add-on to traditional production. Today, it’s emerging as a strategic advantage for

Home / Circular Economy Is About Designing Better Systems Repair, refurbishment and remanufacturing are often seen as end-of-life solutions, but in a circular economy, they are part of a much bigger story.

Home / Circular Economy Is About Designing Better Systems Most packaging problems don’t actually start on the shop floor. They start long before that—often in rooms where decisions are made

Home / The reality of trade-offs Not all “sustainable” packaging options perform the same—and some fail where it matters most. Many organisations upgrade to new materials without a clear understanding of how

Home / The value of structured decisions without relying on judgment alone In many organisations, complex decisions, such as selecting suppliers, materials, technologies, or investment priorities, are still shaped primarily

Home / Australia’s Environmentally Sustainable Procurement (ESP) Policy is reshaping procurement by emphasizing climate action, environmental protection, and circular economy principles. Effective from 1 July 2024, the policy initially targets

Home / “Circular procurement? Sounds expensive (to consider and to work on)” That’s how you may feel – but the truth is far from this. For many teams, the move

Home / “Oh my god bro, why is there a box, in a box and another box?” This is what I heard from the living hall when my 9-year-old started taking off

Home / Most training sessions look like this: – Someone presents. – Everyone listens. – A few nod. – Maybe a couple of questions. And then… back to work. Here’s the thing, Understanding something doesn’t mean

Home / If we take a deep look … at the type of “interaction” we can do during “interactive workshops” …. Aren’t they constrained and narrowed to exchange ideas in

Home / Did you know that circular procurement can enhance business competitiveness by creating resilience in your supply chain, driving innovation and designing out waste to save costs? It improves

Home / Newsletter Why Market Clarity Matters More Than Ever Market Mapping At Anvarta, our work with clean economy innovations proves one thing—the amount of focus going into creating market success

Home / Newsletter Where are we in understanding circular procurement? If we talk about the golden key that opens the entrance to accelerating change in markets, there is one we

Home / Newsletter We have good intentions, but do we have what it takes to functionally run a circular economy? How many of us reach the point where our well-functioning

Home / A structured approach to clean economy growth transforming complex market challenges into clear, actionable strategies. This framework helps organizations identify opportunities, prioritize pathways, and accelerate sustainable expansion with

CONCEPT PAPER UNPACKING MARKET GROWTH Home / A structured approach to clean economy growth transforming complex market challenges into clear, actionable strategies. This framework helps organizations identify opportunities, prioritize pathways,

CONCEPT PAPER UNPACKING MARKET GROWTH Home / A structured approach to clean economy growth transforming complex market challenges into clear, actionable strategies. This framework helps organizations identify opportunities, prioritize pathways,

Home / A structured approach to clean economy growth transforming complex market challenges into clear, actionable strategies. This framework helps organizations identify opportunities, prioritize pathways, and accelerate sustainable expansion with

Home / We’ve talked about decarbonisation, and also about a circular economy “But, internally driving these are not enough” “We need to also purchase solutions that actively drive these!” If you’re actively

Home / Turning evaluation into progress We often need to choose between “things” in a progressive path for development. Something that already is there, and something “new” or an alternative

Home / We can’t afford to shift what we procure to buy sustainable or circular products when we hear this, the real underlying question is: Can we afford not to? Most procurement teams get stuck

Home / Making Trade-Offs Visible Why do some decisions look reasonable at the time, but cause problems later? Often, the issue is not the decision itself, but the trade-offs that

Home / Why Many Decisions Feel Unclear Many organisations say decisions feel harder than they used to. Is that because people are less capable, or because the decisions themselves have

Home / How true is this famous quote that says “what changes your life is who you meet and the books that you read When you read a book (or

Home / Many product solutions are designed around an important assumption: that people will use products exactly as intended. But what does that actually mean in practice? It often means assuming that

Home / We want to be sustainable – right? Let’s move away from plastic We see this a lot in packaging decisions: teams assume that choosing a material perceived as sustainable automatically

Home / Moving from reactive fixes to structured decision pathways – Why packaging needs foresight, not constant fixes Many packaging changes today are driven by immediate triggers, – New regulations

Home / Packaging is not a materials decision, but a system choice Packaging decisions are often treated as technical or material choices – Plastic versus paper – lighter versus heavier

Home / We’re Excited to Share the News! Anvarta is proud to announce our strategic collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact Network Sri Lanka — working together to help

Fact Sheets Here is how the new Australia’s Circular Economy Framework would work. Australia’s Circular Economy Framework 2024 marks a significant shift in how resources, waste, and value are

Last month, we celebrated three years of Anvarta, and it reminded us of a question we’re often asked. What does the name “Anvarta” mean? So I thought of sharing the

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The project involved taking a deep analytical look at CMTP’s organizational footprint analysis and product footprint analysis of a key strategic key unit (SKU) and proposing, a) Options for continuous

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We often drift to purchasing something new and shiny, fresh off the shelves, when we think of buying something. Retail and advertising industry techniques are also made to influence us

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