Putting Circular Economy Back Into Sustainability

The explosive growth of corporate sustainability programs truly affirms the prominence, if not centrality, that many of these programs have within multinational producers across a wide variety of industries. Further, the breadth and specificity of many of these programs can rightly be said to reflect the granular analysis in which many companies engage in determining the content and resources expenditures for these initiatives. But what's truly notable in its absence – either buried in the numbers or not found at all, is the lifecycle preservation of product resources.

Product Resource Recovery as an "OS" (Original Sustainability program)

The irony in downplaying, if not omitting, product resource recovery from sustainability programs bears mention: for many international producers, one of the very first sustainability programs in which they starting participating (a decade or more past) is a regulated waste diversion scheme for the recycling and not landfilling