A Circular Business Model for a Pregnancy Bra

This report proposes a strategy to develop a circular business model for Feelou, a company that has worked on a sustainable pregnancy bra. The circular business model aims to improve the lifespan of the bra and reduce resource usage. This report consists of a research phase and a conceptualisation phase. The research phase explores the current...

Creating transparency and guidance in Circular Economy indicators: Tools for assisting circular consultants with choosing the right CE indicators for manufacturing companies

Businesses are being increasingly pressured to start making the transition from their current polluting economy towards a circular economy (CE) to pursuit a sustainable industry. Indicators for CE play a key role in this transition, enabling the measurement and control of this development. However, the scattered landscape of micro level CE...

Co-creation process during the development of circular building components for housing renovation: Mapping co-creation process for the case of circular extension and deriving lessons learned for circular building components

The circular economy transition requires companies to implement innovative supply chains and business models. However, the number of available solutions for the application in the circular built environment is limited. These solutions could be developed through the co-creation between companies aiming for circular transition. However, it is...

Re:Create - The behavioural implications of sustainable service design in the fashion industry

Due to emerging climate concerns, a growing pressure is put on the fashion industry to adopt circular business models which encourage sustainable usage of clothing. The clothing supply chain is currently both complicated and polluting. Paired with rising quantities of clothing sales, technological solutions will only temporarily tackle the...

Helping Bakery Strik contribute to a circular economy: Making the food waste loop 100% circular

STRIK is a well-known bakery in Nijmegen and surroundings, with currently 3 pastry shops, 2 chocolate/ice-cream shops and 1 central bakery for storing and production. CEO van Geenen possesses a passion and talent for entrepreneurship and an expertise in pastry-making, but little affinity for- nor experience with sustainability. With the upcoming...

The Transition towards Circular Economy in the Dutch Built Environment: An exploratory research on the application of Product-Service Systems as Circular Business Models for the products, components, and materials in the building layers

The current industrial system is established on one fundamental characteristic: a linear model of resource consumption that follows a ‘take-make-dispose’ pattern. However, the emerging concept of Circular Economy (CE) is proposed to change the current production and consumption patterns that put a significant burden on our planet and its...

Circular Rollout: Bridging the design-implementation gap in circular economy

<b>Circular Economy<br/></b>Exponential growth in human activity has caused exponential changes in Earth system variables, like greenhouse gas emissions and global temperature. Human influence on the planet has reached far beyond safe parameters and could lead to disastrous consequences for large parts of the world. This is attributed to the...

Implementation of Circular Business Models in Firms: Prospects and Barriers

The appearance of circular economy has been raised as a solution to rapidly diminishing resources and waste issues that constant economic growth entail. The transition from the current linear economy in which we take, make, use, and dispose of resources to a circular economy in which waste becomes raw material is expected to close material loop....