Car manufacturer Volvo is aiming to become a Circular Business by 2040, but first it has to bring together a lot of disparate data and information to create a baseline to establish where it is now.

Why it matters

Carbon neutrality is currently the rallying cry for sustainable businesses everywhere but true sustainability goes much further, to address the need to significantly reduce the use of virgin materials because of the impact on finite resources, on land and on animals. Being circular may not mean avoiding all use of virgin material, but there will need to be benchmarks to work...