James Pennington is an Associate Director at Deloitte where he leads the firm’s circular economy practice. He previously worked at the World Economic Forum where he was manager of the circular economy initiative and led the build-out of the Forum’s environmental work in China. He holds degrees from the University of Leeds and Cambridge.
If you were to quantify the sharing economy’s value to society, what would you say? In the United States, the social value of Uber last year was equivalent to giving every resident $20, r...
Plastic is the workhorse material of the modern economy. Lightweight and durable, it’s been used to make a vast number of products since its introduction over 100 years ago.
At the 2016 World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, we launched a report called The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics. This report provides, for the first ti...
As demonstrated in a new report, the rapid and pervasive development of digital technologies, along with an understanding of circular economy principles, will drastically change life for ...
