Category
Overview

Category
Introduction

Waste Services and the Circular Economy involves the regular collection, transportation, processing and disposal or recycling and monitoring of different types of waste materials​.

Category
Vision

CBRE is committed to decreasing the amount of waste generated through its own operations and its clients’, and promotes the reduction, reuse, repair, recycle and recover hierarchy for waste. CBRE champions the sharing of best practices and innovation in the field of waste.

VOC Priorities  

Category Strategy / Program Deliverables

Objectives
and Targets

Market Characteristics /
Cost Drivers

Potential
Saving Levers

Risks and Constraints

• Utilize CBRE Preferred and Contracted suppliers​
• Align global KPI’s and SLA’s with  mandatory regulations and requirements​
• Reporting to include monthly recycling and recovery rates ​
• Grow the Circular Economy commensurate with CBRE’s Zero Waste policies ​

• Global waste is expected to grow to over 3.50 billion tonnes by 2050, more than double population growth over the same period
• Supply chain fragmented and regionally localized (CBRE has over 1500 global suppliers)
• New regulations combined with labour shortages are increasing costs but growing trend to implement ESG initiatives
• Nearly 40% of global carbon dioxide emissions come from the real estate sector. 70% of emissions are produced by building operations​

• Adoption of technology (reduce waste disposed into landfills)
• Supplier Competition (competitive bidding and transparency in pricing)
• Optimsation of Services strategies ( suppliers who can provide effective waste minimization techniques)
• Bundling of services (consulting, waste tracking, reporting and waste management services)
• Rebates (from specialist recycling suppliers)

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• Inability to collect credible waste data - impacting reporting requirements
• Regional goals and objectives differ - need to solution on a localized level

• As global waste increases so will the costs of traditional disposal​

Sourcing Benefits

Predictable Savings

4 x4 Global Coverage

Client Considerations

Value to Clients

ESG

• Linear economy is suffering from scarcity of commodities,  increase in prices and supply chain issues post-pandemic- goods are more expensive to produce​
• Implementation of circular economy plus improvements in downstream activities (recycling etc) have a part to play in the future 
• CBRE can support clients to deploy workplace strategy that encourages sustainable resource management and waste reduction practices​

• In 2022, CBRE launched a circular economy programme inc TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency)  certification ​
• Focus will be on technological innovation (to deliver improvements to waste services), competitive pricing, client-centric operational models. after-care support etc​

• Coverage for all major regions countries 
• Pending results of RFP in Australia 

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• Best-In-market pricing through competitive tendering  
• Access to the latest innovations and waste service technology (such as smart disposal sensors) leveraging of multi-regional intelligence -  through topical in-house category mgt 
• Ongoing supplier partner performance management and development of  specialist audit / support services to align with corporate zero waste / net zero policies 

Typical Industry % Savings Technology: 5-7% 
Supplier Optimisation: 6-8% 
Service Bundling: up to 8% 

• • Potentially – 19% to 23% if combination of methods used​

Suppliers Interactive Map

*Hover over geolocation to reveal suppliers by country 

Stakeholder Engagement 

Playbook Analytics 

4x4 Coverage / Current Status / Future Roadmap

Current Plans
to Build 4x4
Coverage

Coverage Rates 

Sessions : 13k

Visitors: 3.5k

Asset Views: 2.5k

Geography : 38

Intuitive platform engagement from June 1, 2022, through present day.

Spikes in sessions represents dates of new playbooks release.

Digital Playbook

Milestone Governance Report - Stage Gate 3

Waste Management

&

Circular Economy

Eddie Olmedo

Susan Griffiths 

Paul Rushton

Global Procurement Solution Lead - Waste

Global Procurement Solution Lead - ESG

Global Strategic Sourcing Manager 

eddie.olmedo@cbre.com

susan.griffiths@cbre.com

paul.rushton1@cbre.com

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