Rémy Le Moigne

Rémy Le Moigne is the Managing Director of Gate C, a circular economy consultancy firm. He has been a partner of Deloitte where he led projects in Europe and Africa, and is also the author of several award-winning books including: L’economie circulaire. Stratégie pour un monde durable (Dunod, 2018), and Supply chain management. Achat, production, logistique, transport, vente (Dunod, 2017).

Can developing countries benefit from the circular economy?

Developing countries have not benefited from the linear economy, the economy in which goods are manufactured from raw materials, sold, used, and then discarded as waste. They have poor access to che...

Towards Factories with no Assets

Many offices don’t buy printers, lighting systems, computers or carpets anymore. To reduce their costs, they prefer to buy copies per page from Xerox, light per lux from Philips, compute capacity ...

Reverse logistics, the circular economy weakest link

Reverse logistics is sometimes described as the logistics going in the “wrong direction”. Yet, by closing the loop of product lifecycles, it plays an important role to transitioning to a circula...

Making Products Last

Recently, Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, made an unnoticed but major statement. She announced that Apple’s goal was to eliminate the ...

Waste + Information = Resource

Circular economy principles rely on a very simple equation, “waste = resource.” However, the reality is somewhat different. For example, converting plastic waste into valuable material i...

An Important Step Forward

Janez Potocnik – Forum for the Future of Agriculture, Brussels 2016   Adopted by the European Parliament on April 18th 2018 and approved by the European Council on...