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Products That Flow: Circular Business Models and Design Strategies for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

Circular Business Models and Design Strategies for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
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Products That Flow: Circular Business Models and Design Strategies for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods explores how businesses can shift towards sustainable and circular design strategies. The authors, Siem Haffmans and Ed van Hinte, provide insights into the environmental impact of consumer goods and propose innovative business models that enable companies to reduce waste and create value through product life cycles. It serves as a guide for integrating sustainability into business practices to benefit both the environment and the economy.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in discovering innovative business strategies that focus on sustainability and circular economy principles, particularly within the fast-moving consumer goods sector. It explores how companies can redesign their product life cycles and business models to promote environmental responsibility and efficiency, offering practical insights and case studies for transforming traditional practices.

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PRODUCTS THAT FLOW is an unusual book about business and design, for it focuses on fast-moving consumer goods. Products that are not supposed to last and can be quite damaging to the environment. It concerns food, packaging, disposables, fashion and cheap gifts and gadgets.

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Products That Flow is an unusual book about business and design, as it focuses on fast-moving consumer goods—products that are not meant to last and can be quite damaging to the environment. It concerns food, packaging, disposables, fashion, and cheap gifts and gadgets. This gloriously illustrated book offers a range of business opportunities and design strategies to deal with these products in a more sustainable way. It goes beyond the point where design and entrepreneurship tend to come to a halt.

Products That Flow offers insight into the short lives of different products with quickly dropping value. A wide range of practical examples point the way to managing the flows that often are out of control. It is a field of interest shared by many, and for that reason, is destined to turn into fertile soil for improvement.

Products That Flow will change the way we deal with waste, either preventing it from leaving the circle of utility or rendering it harmless.

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Products That Flow: Circular Business Models and Design Strategies for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods is praised for highlighting the importance of designers in developing sustainable alternatives to disposable goods. It offers in-depth analysis and inspirational case studies, such as the RePack initiative aimed at reducing packaging waste from online shopping and Heineken's efforts to enhance the durability of beer bottles to improve recycling rates. The book is noted for providing practical, innovative solutions that address environmental concerns in the consumer goods sector.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789063694982

Publisher: BIS Publishers B.V.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 October 2018

Country: Netherlands

Imprint: BIS Publishers B.V.

Illustration: colour illustrations throughout

Contributors:

  • With Marjolein Van Gelder

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 200.0mm

Height: 255.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

About the Author

Siem Haffmans (Author)

Siem Haffmans has over 25 years of experience as a sustainable designer and strategic consultant on sustainable innovation and circular economy. Marjolein van Gelder is strategic consultant at Partners for Innovation, working on the circular economy and the CIRCO project. Ed van Hinte started the design research facility DRS22 in The Hague. DRS22 performs design research in public space, communication and lightweight structures.

Ed van Hinte (Author)

Ed van Hinte is an author, design critic and educator focusing on the consequences of mass reduction.

Marjolein van Gelder (Author)

Marjolein van Gelder is strategic consultant at Partners for Innovation.

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