The Circular Economy Development Center can help you define what’s material for you in terms of both circularity and corporate financial performance. Like a North Star, good materiality assessments are a crucial ESG (environmental, social and governance) tool that also engages stakeholders to find out what they expect. Stakeholders can make or break a business, and we help you discover what they need in circularity.

The Circular Economy Development Center can help you pinpoint who and where suppliers are, what they do for a company and the impacts of their activities. Also a bedrock ESG activity, value/supply-chain mapping can be big work because it makes visible the invisible and it, too, provides information about supplier materials, resources and greenhouse gas emissions. Like a snapshot, knowing who and what is in a value/supply chain at a given time is essential to understand a product, process or service impact. We help you explore better, more circular options either with existing suppliers or with new ones.

The Circular Economy Development Center helps you navigate lifecycle assessment (LCAs), tools that measure environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions, over the entire lifespan of products, processes, materials and any other measurable activities. LCAs are foundational in understanding the complex systemic interactions of industrial production, allowing for meaningful comparisons and improvements. We help you interpret the minutiae in decision-useful ways.

The Circular Economy Development Center can help you tell your LCA story in a public-facing, meaningful way with environmental product declarations (EPDs). EPDs include relevant material impacts like greenhouse gas emissions and the global warming potential of a product or material. EPDs are quickly becoming the norm in purchasing, and some entities, including the U.S. government’s General Services Administration (GSA), require them for compliance.

The Circular Economy Development Center has expertise in EHS compliance regulations and the application of these regulatory requirements to manufacturing and other operations. We perform a high-level assessment to identify and characterize potential EHS-related requirements, risks and risk factors, compliance strategies, etc., that can help spotlight which risks pose the greatest threat to your operations. We can also identify controls to help you reduce those risk levels.

The Circular Economy Development Center has expertise in business-case development for circular companies and products, sustainable organizations and ESG initiatives. Circularity, sustainability and ESG are important, yet business must create profit to survive. Fortunately, circular business and financial profitability go hand in hand. We shine the light to help you see the path.