circular supply chain

Out with the old and in with the new – circular supply chain might just save the environment Good news! Businesses can now increase their profits and reduce their carbon footprint at the same time. As it stands, the supply chain industry follows the traditional linear supply chain methodology (source, create, and discard) but with our already limited resources and the expected rise in the global population (10 billion citizens by the year 2050), this idea of “input equals output” is an overall economic dead-end and environmental threat. The linear model has been left relatively untouched since the 1980s…