John Gardner
Building a Circular Economy: How Ford, Novelis Created a Truly Closed Loop for Automotive Aluminum
The Next Economy / With approximately 9 billion people in the world today, society consumes and discards more and more each year, with no signs of slowing down. Culturally, we’ve begun to embrace and adopt recycling as a solution to our modern waste habits and an opportunity to keep designing, using and producing recyclable materials. But what if those recyclable materials are not in fact being recycled? Well, then we’re right back where we started, aren’t we? - 8 years ago
The Circular Economy Requires Size and Scale — How Will We Get There?
The Next Economy / In the build-up to the official launch of the world's largest aluminum recycling centre this week, John Gardner, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Novelis — which built the plant — discusses the barriers and the opportunities for taking the circular economy to scale. - 8 years ago