Circular Procurement in Action is a practical guide for procurement, facilities, workplace, property and sustainability professionals who want to turn circular-economy principles into everyday commercial decisions.
Offices contain far more value than most organisations realise. Furniture sits unused in storage while new items are ordered. Fit-outs are removed before materials have reached the end of their useful life. IT equipment is replaced rather than repaired or redeployed. Catering, cleaning and workplace-service contracts continue to generate avoidable waste. The result is lost value, unnecessary cost, higher carbon emissions and greater exposure to supply disruption.
Hélène Carpentier and Mat Langley show how procurement and facilities teams can change this. Rather than treating circularity as another sustainability initiative, the book presents it as a practical approach to retaining value: challenge demand before buying, use existing assets first, design for repair and disassembly, source refurbished products, contract for take-back, track assets throughout their lives and verify what happens at the end.
Covering offices, fit-outs, furniture, flooring, lighting, IT and AV, catering, cleaning, consumables and facilities management, the book explains how to:
build reuse, repair and refurbishment into procurement decisions;
write circular requirements into tenders, contracts and supplier scorecards;
compare buying, leasing, refurbished purchasing and product-as-a-service models;
use asset registers, QR codes and product passports to understand what you own;
plan decommissioning early and create credible recovery routes;
measure avoided purchases, cost savings, carbon reductions and residual value;
strengthen circular claims with clear evidence and proportionate assurance; and
make circularity visible and meaningful to employees in the workplace.
Real-world examples, decision tools, checklists, contract ideas and practical playbooks help readers move from ambition to action without requiring a large budget, a perfect data platform or a dedicated circular-economy team. The approach can begin with one office, one category or one sourcing event and grow over time.
Accessible, commercially grounded and focused on what teams can do next, Circular Procurement in Action moves the conversation beyond recycling. It shows how procurement can keep products and materials at their highest value for longer, reduce waste and carbon, improve resilience, support local repair and reuse ecosystems, and make sustainability tangible at work.
Part of the Sustainable Procurement in Action series, this book is for anyone ready to replace the linear “buy, use and discard” model with a smarter approach built around value, longevity and action.
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