Businesses have a pivotal opportunity to mitigate the increasing environmental concerns of waste by embracing circular principles

The Circularity Index maps businesses' progress in adopting circular strategies and their impact across three components of circularity: Commitment, Execution, and Recovery. It then places them into one of five maturity stages from Novice to Expert.

This tool enables companies to benchmark their circularity efforts against industry peers while providing a clear roadmap to advancing their sustainability and circularity initiatives.

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Industries Represented

The study surveyed 1,200 sustainability leaders from U.S. based medium to large businesses across diverse sectors. This broad sample provides a view of circular initiatives across key industries.

*A cross section including Banking/Financial Services, Higher Education, Construction, Media & Communications, Real Estate, Sports & Entertainment, Nonprofit and others.

Assess where your circularity initiatives are compared to others in your industry

Do your resources and investment align with your goals? How does your implementation and measurement of circularity initiatives stack up? Find out by taking the online assessment and compare yourself to your peers.

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Percent of Companies Planning Circularity Investments Year-Over-Year By Industry

key findings

Most companies are still in the early phases of developing their circularity approach and initiatives

…as evidenced by the fact 45% of all companies fall into the Novice and Emerging categories. Relatively few (12%) have achieved Expert status. Three important components play a role in creating and advancing a program for circularity and each components has a few core requirements:

key findings

Assess where your circularity initiatives are compared to others in your industry

87%

Of companies plan to invest more in sustainability and/or circularity year-over-year

65%

Agree: Everyone wants to increase circularity, but many do not know specifically how to do this.

71%

State they have recycling programs at all locations, yet 30% are diverting less than a third of their waste.

Embracing circularity is not just about environmental stewardship; it’s a strategic imperative for companies looking to optimize both environmental and economic benefits to meet the demand of more conscious customers.

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To get started, look for the opportunities to optimize from where you are today:

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Introducing the Circularity Index

Businesses have a pivotal opportunity to mitigate the increasing environmental concerns of waste by embracing circular principles

Assess where your circularity initiatives are compared to others in your industry

Most companies are still in the early phases of developing their circularity approach and initiatives

Assess where your circularity initiatives are compared to others in your industry

87%

65%

71%

Advance Your Circularity Initiatives

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