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Circular economy
What is the circular economy?
The circular economy is a model of production and consumption designed to keep materials and products in use for as long as possible, rather than discarding them at the end of a single life. It stands against the linear "take, make, dispose" economy that has dominated since industrialisation, where raw materials become products, products become waste, and the loop never closes.
Instead of treating waste as inevitable, the circular model designs it out from the start. That means products built to last, repair, refurbish, and disassembly, materials that can be recovered and fed back into production, and business models like leasing or product-as-a-service that keep ownership and responsibility with the maker. The framing popularised by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation distinguishes a biological cycle, where materials safely return to nature, from a technical cycle, where components are kept circulating at their highest value. In practice it reaches deep into technology: a manufacturer that refurbishes and resells returned laptops, recovers rare metals, and designs the next model to be easier to repair is running a technical cycle instead of feeding a landfill.
The circular economy connects closely to zero waste thinking and to broader sustainability commitments, but it is more specifically about how value and materials flow through an entire system, not just what happens to the bin.
The circular economy at Dallonses
Most of what we make is software, so the circular economy looks different for us than for a manufacturer. The materials we waste are mostly invisible. Compute that runs harder than it needs to, infrastructure that idles at full power, products rebuilt from scratch when they could have been maintained. Cutting that waste is our version of keeping value in the loop.
As a certified B Corp, we extend the same thinking to the hardware behind the work, favouring repair and refurbishment over the three-year landfill cycle. With clients, our sustainable tech consulting puts circular logic to practical use. We build systems that last and scale down instead of demanding constant replacement, and choose green hosting that does not quietly run up a carbon bill. Software you do not have to keep rebuilding is the most circular thing we can offer.
Want systems built to last and run lean instead of being thrown away? Let's design for that.
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