Circularity and Sustainable Production
We design circular economy strategies, conduct circularity analyses, and evaluate alternatives to reduce impacts associated with waste management, improving operational efficiency.
The Challenge for Organizations
Circularity is increasingly a management requirement that creates value, rather than a voluntary commitment.
There are two core challenges: responding to growing regulatory and traceability requirements, and using resources more efficiently to cut costs and create value.
In the region, a growing number of countries have or are developing extended producer responsibility (EPR) frameworks, with requirements for traceability, reporting, and recovery targets.
Regulatory requirements
EPR frameworks require traceability, reporting, and recovery targets. Circularity becomes a management requirement, not an option.
Pressure on resources
Pressure on resources and raw materials drives up costs and puts operational continuity at risk.
The circularity gap in the region
In Latin America and the Caribbean, less than 1% of the materials consumed are fed back into the production system, far below the global average of 7.2%.
Information as the foundation
The traceability systems that compliance requires are the same ones that show where value is being lost and how to optimize processes.
Who It’s For
Organizations with targets as part of their climate ambition, that need to meet regulatory obligations tied to products, materials, and waste, or that need to strengthen the traceability of their information.
It’s also relevant for companies that use large volumes of resources, face high waste management costs, or want to find opportunities for savings and recovery.
Applied Experience
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From Measurement to Circular Management
Circularity requires understanding how materials enter, move through, and leave an organization. Having this information makes it possible to spot losses, regulatory risks, and opportunities to cut costs, recover materials, or develop new solutions.
We use internationally recognized methodologies, such as the Global Circularity Protocol for Business, always adapting them to each organization’s context, operations, and needs.
The process can include up to five stages:
Define
Objectives, scope, and boundaries
Map
Material flows across the value chain
Measure
Baseline and indicators
Manage
Strategy and roadmap
Communicate
Reporting on results and progress
How We Support Your Organization
Everything we do is tailored to your organization’s own reality and challenges:
Circularity assessment and measurement
We evaluate current performance, map the main material flows, and build baselines and indicators.
Gaps and challenges
We identify the main circularity gaps and challenges based on the context of the operation, as input for defining measures and targets.
Strategies and roadmaps
We define objectives, targets, initiatives, owners, and timelines to build circularity into management.
Regulatory compliance
We analyze how the EPR Law applies, identify gaps, and strengthen information traceability.
Tools and support
We design tracking systems and provide technical support for implementing initiatives.
What This Service Delivers
Building circularity into decision-making meets regulatory requirements while also creating an opportunity to optimize processes and generate value.
Compliance and traceability
Consistent information to meet regulatory and reporting requirements.
Greater operational efficiency
Better use of materials and inputs, with fewer losses and less waste.
Lower costs
Savings tied to resource consumption, transportation, treatment, and disposal.
New sources of value
Opportunities for reuse, recovery, collaboration, and new business.
Better decisions
Indicators and criteria for prioritizing initiatives and investments.
Why ImplementaSur?
Evidence and technical rigor
We build on evidence, technical rigor, and broad applied knowledge in circular economy, waste management, environmental regulation, and technical-economic assessment, both in Latin America and the Caribbean and in other parts of the world.
Compliance that creates value
We link compliance and traceability to opportunities to improve efficiency, optimize savings, and create value.
Autonomy and support
We support organizations from assessment through implementation. We build internal capabilities and provide methodologies and tools that give clients autonomy in tracking progress and help circular management last over time.
Tech Briefs
1. Circularity starts before waste is generated
The biggest opportunities can often be found in design, procurement, and production processes. Preventing waste at the source avoids material losses and costs before you even get to recycling or recovery options.
2. Compliance requires traceable information
Regulatory requirements can’t be met with a final report alone. You need consistent data, documented sources, clear owners, and control mechanisms that back up the information you report.
3. Circularity has to create value
Initiatives should help cut costs, improve processes, reduce risks, or generate new revenue streams. To last, the environmental benefit has to come with a viable operational and economic case.
4. Measuring requires defining the scope correctly
Results change depending on whether you assess an organization, a plant, a process, a product, or a material. Setting the boundaries of the measurement is essential to get consistent, comparable indicators.
5. Not all recycling preserves the same value
Beyond measuring how much gets recycled, you need to consider the quality, destination, and subsequent uses of the materials. Circularity aims to keep products and materials in circulation while preserving as much value as possible.
6. A roadmap has to prioritize
Initiatives should be ranked by impact, technical feasibility, required investment, potential savings, regulatory urgency, and implementation capacity. That lets you focus resources on the actions that create the most value for the organization.
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