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Circular Resource Use Strategies

Material you pay to dispose of already carries the energy and carbon spent making it. TCB puts a price and a carbon figure on recovering it.

Who it is for

Process plants and logistics operators with a waste stream, a byproduct or an asset replacement decision on the table, or a customer asking for recycled content.

What you get

  • Material and energy flow mapWhere the losses are
  • Opportunity list with estimated cost, saving and carbon per optionWhat to do first
  • Circularity and carbon indicatorsRecycled content share and the Material Circularity Indicator where relevant, with materials and energy combined in one carbon figure
  • Assessed pathways, and a team that can continue the work after the engagement

Deliverables are tailored to each client's situation. The final scope can vary depending on the client's specific needs. This list is indicative only, and no rights can be derived from it.

What is at stake

Optimised resource use lowers costs and increases resilience against supply disruptions. Circular practices in materials help meet the requirements of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and prepare for the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), while reducing carbon emissions. Combining energy and materials in one carbon indicator improves the chances of subsidies for the improvements, and makes a supplier more attractive to customers with Scope 3 targets.

The work

How it works

Map material and energy flows

Inputs, losses, byproducts and waste streams, mapped with your technical team.

Find the opportunities

Yield gains, byproduct or feedstock matches, reuse and refurbishment, recycled inputs.

Quantify each option

Cost, saving, carbon and material impact.

Assess the pathways

What each option needs and where it leads, assessed with your technical team.

How TCB works

TCB works with your technical teams to assess the current situation and the pathways. Your team can continue the work once the engagement ends.

Triggers

When companies call

  • A company wants to meet the circular requirements of PPWR and ESPR.
  • A supplier to customers with Scope 1 and 3 decarbonisation targets needs to renew assets without a spike in capital goods emissions.
  • A company wants to reduce the risk of supply chain disruption while looking for cost reduction opportunities.

First step: a diagnostic of one site or one material flow, covering the flow map, the opportunities and the pathways to assess. Book a call to scope it.

For packaging, these same methods sit behind the PPWR recyclability, recycled-content and reuse requirements (see PPWR Compliance Support).

Losses found in a carbon accounting exercise are a natural starting point: see GHG Accounting and Decarbonisation.

Other services

The services can be combined

GHG Accounting and Decarbonisation

Carbon figures your customers can use in their own Scope 3, and a reduction plan where every measure has a business case.

PPWR Compliance Support

Declarations of conformity built on supplier data that has been checked, with a process that stays current as the requirements arrive from 2028 to 2040.

ESG Strategy and Reporting

One set of evidence for questionnaires, EcoVadis assessments and tenders, updated each year.

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