Circular Strategy That Closes the Loop
We partner with you to build and operationalize circular strategy—not just audit and advise. From systems design through material sourcing to product redesign, we embed the roadmap your team owns and executes.
Four Ways We Work With You
Whether you're building a circularity strategy from scratch or already running a program, we meet you where you are.
Circular Strategy Design
Map your material flows, then design for them
End-to-end strategy from supplier to end-of-life. We map where materials enter and exit your system, quantify cost concentrations and fee exposures, then translate material and regulatory data into product redesign roadmaps, material recovery playbooks, and decision matrices for which product lines warrant recovery ecosystem investment. Design-for-disassembly, modular sourcing, eco-modulation strategies that improve both durability and per-unit fee profiles.
Deliverables:
Typical timeline: 12-20 weeks
Circular Material Strategy
Source, recycle, and qualify
Recycled content sourcing, supplier requalification, and cost modeling. We work with your procurement and product teams to evaluate pathways (virgin to recycled, single-source to diversified supply, long-lead to local), build supplier scorecards, and model the cost and fee impact of each choice.
Deliverables:
Typical timeline: 12-16 weeks
Regulatory & Program Advisory
Backstop your compliance and program tracking
For teams already running EPR compliance or take-back programs. Ongoing support for state and provincial regulatory shifts, PRO comment-period strategy, and periodic audits of program economics—take-back costs per unit, fee exposure assumptions, program efficiency metrics—before they go to leadership or boards.
Deliverables:
Ongoing retainer or 4-6 week audit
Recycling & Recovery Pathways & Partner Diligence
Validate a specific pathway, partner, or claim
Bounded technical engagements for teams with an existing program. Feasibility and economics of a new recycling pathway or material, due diligence on a reclamation or recycler partner, or review of customer-facing sustainability claims (diversion certificates, specifier materials, environmental product declarations) for accuracy and regulatory defensibility.
Deliverables:
2-6 weeks per engagement
What You Can Expect
Data-driven decisions
Material flows, cost drivers, and fee impact quantified so you know where to invest.
Defensible compliance
Every SKU, supplier change, and design decision documented and audit-ready.
Multi-year strategy
A 3-5 year roadmap your team can own and evolve as regulations and markets shift.
Operational handoff
Strategy and processes embedded in your team so change sticks after we hand off.
Circular Economy Action Plan, City of Ann Arbor
Leading the development of Ann Arbor's comprehensive circular economy strategy, working across municipal departments and community stakeholders to identify material flows, prioritize interventions, and design the governance structures that make circularity operational at city scale.
We Partner With You on Circular Strategy
From your first conversation, we're collaborating — understanding your unique constraints, designing solutions that fit your business, and embedding the roadmap your team can own and evolve.
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