Understanding the driving forces behind the circular economy: 6 web-conferences from February to July 2016

The AFNOR group is organizing a series of web-conferences to help all professionals understand the driving forces behind the circular economy. It's simple, free and open to all, all you have to do is register.

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The AFNOR group is organizing a series of web-conferences to help all professionals understand the driving forces behind the circular economy. It’s simple, free and open to all, all you have to do is register.

Each web-conference will explore a different topic:

  • Tuesday February 16, 2016 from 10am to 11am: the 7 pillars of the circular economy*.
  • Tuesday, March 15, 2016 from 10am to 11am: regulations and voluntary standards for the circular economy
  • Tuesday, April 12, 2016 from 10 to 11 a.m.: sustainable procurement and eco-responsible purchasing
  • Tuesday, May 31, 2016 from 2 pm to 3 pm: eco-design
  • Tuesday June 14, 2016 from 10am to 11am: industrial ecology
  • Tuesday, July 5, 2016 from 10 to 11 a.m.: the functionality economy

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Hervé Ross-Carré will host these conferences. He is head of environmental development for the AFNOR group and one of France’s leading experts on the circular economy*.

On a daily basis, he works with companies and their teams to help them enter a new era in which the economy is combined with sustainable practices, harmonized and integrated by all. Editions AFNOR will publish its 1st book on the circular economy in April 2016.

Hervé Ross Carré is at your disposal should you wish to discuss this subject.

* The circular economy clearly implies the notion of recycling and reusing objects and services between people.

It is opposed to the waste economy. The circular economy concerns and involves circuits that give a second life to objects, and more broadly to materials of all kinds, by recycling them between economic players and/or between private individuals via, for example, second-hand purchases, donations or rentals between private individuals. The basic principle of the circular economy is to use waste as a resource to produce another product.

The circular economy is therefore an economic model that aims to achieve sustainable development. It calls for more thrifty resource management and the invention of new technological solutions, capable of consuming fewer natural resources to produce economic wealth.

Ideally, the circular economy aims to establish consumption circuits with as little unusable waste as possible, thus optimizing the rate of recycling and waste recovery. It is therefore essential to think systematically about minimizing the impact of the product’s life cycle.

About AFNOR
At the service of the general interest and economic development, the AFNOR Group designs and deploys solutions based on voluntary standards, a source of progress and confidence. The association’s general-interest missions are defined by decree, which entrusts it with coordinating the French standardization system, representing French interests in European and international standardization bodies, and drawing up and distributing voluntary standards. Our training, assessment and certification activities are carried out in a competitive environment, in strict compliance with the rules. The Group is managed by Olivier Peyrat. More information at www.afnor.org

 

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