OUR MISSION IS TO ACCELERATE THE TRANSITION TO A
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Aichmi Group works with business, government and academia to build a framework for an economy that is restorative and regenerative by design.
WHAT IS THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY?
A circular economy is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems.
source : Ellen Macarthur Foundation’s website
LINEAR ECONOMY IS REACHING
ITS LIMITS
We take resources from the ground to make products, which we use, and, when we no longer want them, throw them away.
Take-make-waste.
We call this a linear economy.
source : Ellen Macarthur Foundation’s website
WHERE WE HAVE COME FROM
A transformation in our ability to make things changed society.
We’ve been at a turning point before. In 1684, Thomas Savery invented the steam engine and it changed everything. This invention kick-started the industrial revolution, which transformed our ability to make things. Raw materials and energy were seemingly infinite, and labour was readily available. For the first time in history, goods were mass produced.
source : Ellen Macarthur Foundation’s website
WE ARE DISRUPTING THE SYSTEM
The linear economy has to change.
We must transform all the elements of the take-make-waste system: how we manage resources, how we make and use products, and what we do with the materials afterwards. Only then can we create a thriving economy that can benefit everyone within the limits of our planet.
source : Ellen Macarthur Foundation’s website
HOW THIS LOOKS TODAY
We turn resources into an extraordinary number of products.
Since the industrial revolution, the rapid pace of technological progress has continued. The resulting innovations mean that many now have access to products from all over the world at affordable prices. The products have brought many of us levels of material comfort unimaginable to previous generations.
source : Ellen Macarthur Foundation’s website
THE NEW SYSTEM :
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
It’s a new way to design, make, and use things within planetary boundaries.
Shifting the system involves everyone and everything: businesses, governments, and individuals; our cities, our products, and our jobs. By designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems, we can reinvent everything.
source : Ellen Macarthur Foundation’s website