Corporate Real Estate’s Guide to the Circular Workplace
Who’s Who in The Circular Workplace (2024)
In the year since Green Standards published our first Circular Workplace report, the members of this coalition have spoken on panels, run workshops, conducted interviews, advised policy makers, and done the hard work to ensure the stuff in our offices stays in use and out of landfill. And the one thing we keep coming back to is this: Collaboration.
There is no such thing as a circular economy of one. Everyone in the modern workplace needs to know that circularity is a proven way to save money, resources, and carbon emissions. The workplace strategist needs insight into how the furniture manufacturer facilitates reuse and repair; the facilities manager requires information on how the remanufacturer can integrate into their operations; and the corporate real estate professional must identify an architect who considers end-of-use planning from the outset.
To enable a true circular workplace, it will take all these individuals working more collaboratively with each other. No one company, team or individual can do this alone.
The State of The Circular Workplace (2023)
大型企业、创新型初创企业、雄心勃勃的非营利组织和行业协会正在向零废弃办公室的理念迈进，他们在Green Standards 这份新报告中分享了自己的最佳实践。将我们的线性 "索取-制造-浪费 "经济转变为一个再生循环，设计出废弃物并保持资源的使用，是一项艰巨的任务。这份报告是我们现在所处状况的缩影，是我们需要做的事情的总结，也是对全世界工作场所的行动号召。
This report features insights from Steelcase, Starbucks, General Motors, Haworth, CBRE, Teknion, Davies Office, M Moser, Cuningham, BIFMA, the USGBC, and many more organizations. Together, they show how building owners and occupiers, manufacturers and re-manufacturers, service providers, and the architecture and design community can work together to put circular ideas into practice. The result engages employees, saves money, cuts emissions, and turns the engines of the economy into workshops for the circular economy.
Green Standards, the global sustainable decommissioning company, is building a circular coalition to close the loop on workplace waste.