Circular economy initiatives are being undertaken across Google’s operations, from the way the company manages the hardware in its data centres, to the materials used in its buildings, to the way its kitchens are operated. For example, over the
"We are makers", Mark Miodownik tells us. We have created some astonishing products, but perhaps we should be ashamed of some of them, he says. We need to get smarter with our material choices.
With up to 50 billion connected devices predicted by 2020, a pervasive digital transformation is reshaping the economy. Will this ‘fourth industrial revolution’ lead to an acceleration of the extractive, ‘linear’ economy of today, or will it e