Back to the drawing board: a circular system for design and manufacture

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In this edited essay extract Northampton Business School's Dr Kurt Yang Liu maps out new strategies for encouraging the take-up of greener design and manufacturing methods

Over the next five working days BusinessGreen will be exclusively syndicating extracts from a new essay collection on greening the UK's supply chain. The essays, compiled by the All-Party Parliamentary...

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