Chichi Tsai

Take, make, waste – this linear model epitomises today’s economy. While it may have underpinned economic development to date, it’s also pushed nature beyond its limits. Over 90% of the world’s land-related biodiversity loss and water stress, and a third of greenhouse gas emissions, stem from how we extract and process food, timber, bioenergy,... See more

Notpla is eliminating waste by creating seaweed and plant-based alternatives to plastic packaging. Their solutions include a seaweed-based coating for takeaway packaging that has replaced 20 million plastic-lined containers. Notpla is also known for its edible liquid bubbles – 'Ooho'.

Apeel is a company that has come up with an innovative way to... See more

Although it sometimes seems like waste is inevitable in certain situations, waste is actually the result of design choices. There is no waste in nature, it is a concept we have introduced. From tiny, short-lived products, like crisp packets, all the way up to seemingly permanent structures like buildings and roads, the economy is filled with things... See more

Nickel: High energy density crucial in enhancing EV battery range. Also used in Alkaline Electrolysers 6. Rare Earth Elements: Critical to the energy transition through their use in permanent magnets

Cobalt: Essential to the electrification of mobility and the electronics needed for smart devices 2. Copper: Electric conductivity fundamental to renewable energy infrastructure, storage systems and EVs 3. Graphite: Used as the dominant material in battery anodes for its energy density and cost-effectiveness 4. Lithium: Lithium batteries feature... See more

This guide is an objective perspective on origination and challenges of raw materials to a global energy transition, while using the EU definition in the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) as the current market standard for what defines Critical Raw Materials. In doing so, a concrete number of 34 Critical Raw Materials, and 17 Strategic Critical Raw... See more

You don’t need every detail up front, but you do need a clear picture of what scale looks like and which questions must be answered at each step to reach it.

I guess the question really comes down to: is the pilot designed in such a way that you can scale it? Or rather, that it’s designed in such a way that the scaling is taken into account... To meaningfully scale circular business models, you need to redesign internal operations and customer experience for scale from the outset, and this will require... See more