A Summer Break in Livorno: What a 500-Year-Old Town Can Teach Us About Maximising the Value of Everything the Land and Sea Offer
A port city built by people who arrived with nothing turned its unsellable fish into its most famous dish. Centuries later a winery down the coast in the same province built seven labels out of one harvest. Neither threw anything away, and neither lowered its standard to avoid it. Luxury is having the same argument today about resale, and calling the fear cannibalisation.
Sixty Thousand Abandoned Pallets: The Origin Story Of The Pallet Exchange Program
In 1946, the United States Army sailed home from Australia and left its handling equipment and pallets on the wharves, worth less than the cost of the voyage home. The pool built from that surplus became the origin story of pallet pooling, and it now circulates hundreds of millions of assets across sixty countries.
Circularity is often presented as a new idea. Looking back at how supply chains were originally designed, recovery was already part of the system and designed into the flow.
