Google

Membership status: Partner

Global business has a key role to play in moving from a global economy based upon ‘take-make-dispose’ to one based on designing waste out of systems. Google believe in the democratising effect of putting knowledge in the hands of everyone, so they're organising the world's information and making it universally accessible. Google are committed to doing this in a way that has a positive impact on the planet. This partnership will allow Google to build on existing practices to embed circular economic principles into the fabric of their infrastructure, operations, and culture.

Focus Areas

• Advancing the digital enablement of the circular economycircular economyA systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature.

• Developing a circular economy vision for Google's built environment

• Building on existing practices to apply circular principles to data-centres

• Engaging the Google design community around the opportunity presented by circular design principles

Read more about Google's work on the circular economy:

• Artificial intelligence and the circular economy

• Circular Consumer Electronics: An initial exploration

• Cities in a Circular Economy: The Role of Digital Technology

• The Role of Safe Chemistry and Healthy Materials in Unlocking the Circular Economy

• Accelerating the circular economy through commercial deconstruction and reuse

• The promise of glass in concrete

• The circular economy at work in Google data centers