Circular system design | Stena Recycling

Gain insights into your opportunity space using systems thinking. Explore profitable circular business models, such as take-back systems, and identify key partnerships to unlock value and reduce supply chain risks.

In an era where sustainability is paramount, our consulting services in Circular System Design offer a comprehensive approach to building resilient and profitable business models. We empower organizations to embrace circularity through strategies that promote remanufacturing, Product-as-Service offerings, and strategic partnerships.
Our Tack Back System Design focuses on creating efficient systems for reclaiming and remanufacturing products, enabling businesses to capture value from their materials.

By adopting Product-as-Service models, companies can shift from ownership to delivering value through services, fostering deeper customer relationships while minimizing environmental impact. Establishing partnerships is crucial in this transition; we facilitate connections with key stakeholders to enhance collaboration and resource sharing. Overall, we assist businesses in understanding and unlocking their systems' potential, design profitable circular models, and forge essential partnerships that drive their sustainability ambitions forward, ultimately contributing to a more circular economy.

Contact us today to start understanding your system potential. See our services below, you can also try out some of our smaller “get started” services such as our circular business model or system mapping workshops.

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Product-as-a-Service business model development

Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) is one approach to shift from simply selling products to charging for utility and creating stronger alignment with circular economy practices. The approach ensures that the company captures value each time the product is used and puts it at the core of its business strategy.

By aligning incentives between businesses and customers, PaaS encourages manufacturers to design products for durability, repairability, and recyclability, while empowering consumers to access goods on a pay-per-use basis. Moreover, PaaS enables businesses to forge deeper relationships with customers, offering personalized solutions, continuous product improvements, and enhanced value-added services.

We work with multiple brands on developing a Product-as-a-Service business model and value proposition. By exploring what PaaS can do, companies can unlock new revenue streams, drive innovation, and contribute to a more sustainable and resilient future.

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Take-back system design

While modern industrial recycling has advanced, a significant share of product value is often lost in the process.

Take-back systems include a series of processes whereby a company retrieves used products or packaging materials from customers for recycling, refurbishment, or potentially reuse on a secondary market. Implementing an effective take-back system presents an opportunity to transform your resource management, unlock new revenue streams, and gain a competitive edge. We offer a take-back system design service tailored to your specific products, target market, and sustainability goals.

Our service helps you evaluate the business case for a take-back system, exploring opportunities for customer retention, securing critical components, enabling new business models, and facilitating rapid product upgrades to retain your competitive edge.

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Oskar Mikaelsson is an expert in circular product design and circular system design.

Circular Metrics Specialist

Oskar Mikaelsson

Circular Metrics Specialist

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Building system partnerships

Sometimes we are called to act as an independent mediator creating space for various stakeholders to gather around a topic that could make a difference across the whole value chain.

Our role then involves orchestrating dialogue and cooperation among suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and consumers to develop and implement circular initiatives that drive meaningful change.

By fostering consensus among these stakeholders, we enable the creation of comprehensive circular strategies that address every stage of the product lifecycle, from production and distribution to consumption and disposal. Through our holistic system perspective, we strive to cultivate a culture of openness and transparency, needed to secure the systemic circular solutions that actually work.