Did you know that circular procurement can enhance business competitiveness by creating resilience in your supply chain
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 supply chain resilience and encourages innovation. By prioritizing initiatives that are aligned with principles of circular economy, circular procurement: helps challenge demand for traditional products […]
Where are we in understanding circular procurement?
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 cannot get past.PROCUREMENT!!! It is one of the most powerful levers we can use to transition to a clean economy, influence industrial design and consumption, […]
We’ve talked about decarbonisation, and also about a circular economy
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 trying to procure solutions that decarbonise your supply chain and enable circular economy, chances are you’ve hit this wall and these conversations are not new to you. Either you’ve been part of it or or watched someone […]
We can’t afford to shift what we procure to buy sustainable or circular products
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 in the same loop: – Chase the lowest unit price – Replace. repeat. dispose. They they focus on the main budget alloacted to purchase the product, not costs spent when it travels through […]
We want to be sustainable – right? Let’s move away from plastic
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 lowers impact. But packaging doesn’t work that way. Different materials stress the system in different places: – Paper bags often come with higher water and energy use in production […]
Moving from reactive fixes to structured decision pathways – Why packaging needs foresight, not constant fixes
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 – Customer feedback – Internal cost pressures etc. While these responses are often necessary, they tend to result in incremental, short-term fixes. Over time, organisations find […]
Packaging is not a materials decision, but a system choice
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 – Recyclable versus non-recyclable In practice, many organisations focus on improving one attribute at a time, usually in response to cost pressure, customer expectations, or […]
New Partnership Announcement
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 businesses adopt circular economy practices and build stronger, future-ready organisations. Anvarta is proud to announce our strategic collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact Network […]
Here is how the new Australia’s Circular Economy Framework would work
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 managed across the economy. Developed in response to environmental, economic, and supply-chain pressures, the framework outlines a national approach to doubling circularity by 2035, with […]
Business strategy revitalization aligned with principles of circular economy
INSEE Ecocycle Lanka (Pvt) Ltd., is a fully owned subsidiary of Siam City Cement (Lanka) Limited (a member of the INSEE Group, Thailand) and holds the unique position as Sri Lanka’s largest sustainable resource recovery solutions provider and the operator of Sri Lanka’s only facility for co-processing industrial waste in cement kilns. INSEE Ecocycle intends […]