Big Ideas: “How we can eliminate single use packaging” with Mike Newman, CEO of Returnity…

The next business frontier is rethinking everything we consume: what it does, where it comes from, where it goes, and how we can keep on getting its service from a net flow of very nearly nothing at all—but ideas.

Despite the potential of circular manufacturing and regenerative design, today’s pioneering industrial and urban designers face a formidable challenge: working with business, finance and governments that are still trapped within the mindset and metrics of degenerative economic design.

Design for disassembly, closed-loop material recycling and working systemically along the entire supply chain have brought increased profitability along with a wide diversity of environmental benefits.