Waste to Wealth, 1st ed. 2015 The Circular Economy Advantage

Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully.

1. On Borrowed Time
2. The Roots of the Circular Economy
3. Gaining the Circular Advantage
4. Circular Supply-Chain: ' 'Right from the Start ' '
5. Recovery & Recycling: Making History of Waste
6. The Product Life-Extension Business Model: Products That Are Built to Last
7. The Sharing Platform Business Model: Sweating Idle Assets
8. The Product as a Service Business Model: Performance over Ownership
9. Circular Business Models: Evaluation, Enablers and Ecosystems
10. Driving the Technology & Digital Edge in Circular Advantage: Ten Transformational Plays
11. Five Circular Capabilities for Driving Value
12. The Power of Policy
13. Capturing the Advantage: Getting Started

Peter Lacy is Global Managing Director of Sustainability Services at Accenture and a member of the Accenture Strategy leadership team. He is an adviser to the United Nations, the World Economic Forum and governments, CEOs and boards around the world. He is a business fellow at Oxford University, a WEF Young Global Leader and co-founder of 'The Circulars', the first worldwide circular economy award for business innovation. He is a regular contributor to publications such as the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Business Week, The Guardian and China Daily.

Jakob Rutqvist is a manager in Accenture's Strategy and Sustainability practice and is part of its Nordic sustainability leadership team. Before Accenture he worked as a lobbyist on innovation, climate and energy and has engaged big multinationals as well as governments and institutions like the UN, World Bank, World Economic Forum and EU Parliament. He is an alumni of Clinton Global Initiative, One Young World and Harvard University. Jakob has written for Fast Company and Fortune.