A key step on the path to greater sustainability in companies is the transition to the principle of the circular economy. In the “disposable economy” we’ve been using up to now, products are manufactured and largely discarded after their useful life, meaning they are not reused and waste is incinerated or sent to landfill.
We want to change that! By avoiding and reusing waste and recycling it effectively, we create a cycle, from production to the use of a product, in which only a small proportion of new resources need to be added. This means that in an ideal world, an office chair would be made from waste (e.g. PET bottles) or renewable materials (e.g. hemp). Once it has reached the end of its useful life, its individual parts can be processed into new elements in just a few production steps without the addition of further materials. These elements ultimately result in a new chair of equal quality, and so the cycle continues. Through this cradle-to-cradle principle, the chair gets a new life over and over.
What sounds simple in this example is highly complex in practice, especially when it comes to planning entire offices. As experts in sustainable office fit-outs, we are here to help.