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At Coreo, we work with powerful companies to make powerful transformations.
Where traditional sustainability consultants manage problems after they occur, Coreo works upstream – designing them out. The results push our clients beyond traditional compliance and efficiency savings, uplifting them to be capable of deriving financial returns from circular economic transition.
Coreo builds design strategies and systems that make circularity commercially viable. We focus on doing less, doing it better, and ensuring every intervention drives measurable value across multiple priority areas.
The Problems We Solve
Challenge 1
How do I deliver a circularity strategy without it being another thing?
You don’t need a separate circular strategy—circularity is a cross-cutting enabler that will deliver on multiple business priorities. For example, repairing your products extends their life, limiting replacement costs & carbon. Embed circularity into how you design, procure, operate and sell, so each move lifts profit and resilience while cutting environmental footprint.
Challenge 2
How can we use circularity to address carbon emissions & nature impacts?
Put simply: using fewer new things means less carbon and less pressure on land and nature. Keeping materials in use—through better design, reuse, repair and remanufacturing—cuts extraction and energy, lowering emissions and pollution while protecting habitats and water. And it’s not a growth stopper: circular models shift value from selling more tonnes to delivering service and lifetime value, so revenue can grow as footprints shrink.
Challenge 3
How can I achieve zero waste to landfill?
You most likely can’t – and that’s okay. A mature circular approach recognises this. What you can do is map your material flows (what comes in and what goes out), identify your impact hotspots, and set measurable, practical pathways to keep materials in circulation in ways that make sense for your business.
Challenge 4
How do I measure circularity?
It depends! There isn’t just one way. Some groups use recognised tools like CTI or MCI, but circularity can also be measured in other ways, like money saved, jobs created, or environmental benefits. The right way to measure it should always fit your business. At Coreo, we work with each client to choose the metrics that matter most for them.
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Still have questions about circular economy? Check out our FAQ’s…
Q1 What is the circular economy?
Today, only about 7% of the global economy is circular, meaning we mostly use new resources and discard much of what we use. The circular economy is a different model built on three principles: eliminate waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use at their highest value, and regenerate nature and society. It’s a system-level shift: no single organisation makes up an economy, but each can apply these principles through design, procurement, operations and business models—to help our economy go circular. It will look different for every business.
Q2 How is circularity different from recycling?
Circularity isn’t about recycling more. Recycling is what you do at the end: you shred, melt or pulp things to make something new; often downgrading the material (plastic chains get shorter, paper fibres weaken). If you lean on recycling too soon, you use up the material’s value faster than necessary. Circularity starts earlier: design things to last, be repaired, refilled, reused and remanufactured, then recycle only when those better options are spent.
Q3 Which circular models work, and how do they create value?
All can work; the key is picking what fits your business. Sell outcomes instead of stuff (e.g., Philips/Signify’s lighting-as-a-service: customers pay for illumination, not luminaires), extend product life (e.g., Caterpillar Reman refurbishes thousands of components each year), or switch formats (e.g., Patagonia’s repair services keep gear in use). And it’s not theoretical: Philips reports that circular products & services made up 24.4% of total revenue in 2024, showing circular models can be a material driver of growth, not a side project. Wire the model into design, contracts, returns and service, and you’ll grow revenue and resilience while cutting material use, costs and risk.
