Production

Building goals around circular activities in manufacturing is an important aspect of implementing and monitoring progress. Setting goals around activites such as zero-waste production, landfill diversion, or the conversion of manufacturing waste into feedstocks for new products or processes all contribute to a circular business model.

Design for the Environment

Intel

Intel’s Design for the Environment program ensures that product end-of-life is taken into consideration from the outset.
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Production
Product Curation
Design for Excellence

Philips

In its “Design for Excellence” innovation process, Philips has added circular economy criteria to its existing criteria of recyclability, upgradability and serviceability.
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Production
Supply Chain
Aluminum Closed-Loop Manufacturing

Novelis

Novelis, the world’s largest rolled aluminum company, expressed its intention to adopt an almost entirely closed-loop manufacturing system in which 80% of the aluminum it uses in its beverage cans, automobile parts and specialty products would be recycled material.
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Production
Sourcing
Recovering Potassium Hydroxide

Veolia

Small amounts of hydroflouric acid used in gas production must be neutralized, often using potassium hydroxide (KOH). This spent KOH was disposed of by the refineries as a hazardous waste. Veolia has developed a method to recover and recycle this spent chemical.
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Production
Energy Production
Water Systems
Alcoa Technology Center

Alcoa

Key to achieving water goals as well as assisting customers globally is Alcoa’s Natural Engineered Wastewater Treatment technology that mimics natural wetlands to sustainably treat wastewaters.
Circular Economy Categories: 
Production
Water Systems