GATE C is a circular economy consulting firm

In 2025, GATE C has been recognized by ClimateSort as one of the world’s Top 12 Circular Economy Consulting Companies.

UBER Eats partnered with GATE C to develop an environmentally aware packaging framework for restaurants in France, and help restaurants make informed decisions for their business.

The Royal Society of Chemistry recently published an analysis of the wind energy industry’s material requirements based on research conducted by GATE C.

Circular strategy

We assist companies in defining and executing a robust circular economy strategy.

Circular sourcing

We help purchasing departments to adopt circular sourcing strategies to reduce costs, secure supplies and save resources.

Circular factory

We work with production departments to better capture the value of industrial waste.

Circular logistics

We help logistics departments to improve reverse logistics performance.

Circular sales

We assist sales and marketing departments in selling products more than once.

Digital circular economy

We help businesses to fill the information gap to enable the transition toward a circular economy.

Alternatives to plastic

We help companies to find alternative materials, packaging or distribution models to reduce plastic consumption for packaging. Learn more.

Circular chemicals

We help factories reuse, recycle and resell spent chemicals. Learn more.

Circular evaluation

We designed a circular framework to help our clients understand how far they are from becoming a circular company. Learn more.

Circular training

We deliver training to build our clients’ capabilities. Our training program features three modules that can be customised to our client’s needs. Contact us to learn more.

Getting ready for the CSRD

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires 50,000 companies in the EU to disclose data related to resource use and circular economy. What is ESRS E5, resources use and circular economy? How to prepare for the disclosure? And how we can help.

Switching to reusable packaging

Pressured by increasing regulations, producers need to switch to reusable packaging. However, barriers to reusable packaging are multiple. How to switch to reusable packaging? And how we can help?

The materials industry needs to transition to a circular economy

The materials industry is a major source of CO2 emissions. To reduce these emissions, it needs to transition to a circular economy.

Digitalising material flows

The power of digital technologies to enable the circular economy. Print version

Can developing countries benefit from the circular economy?

Developing countries have not benefited from the linear economy. Can that change with the circular economy? Print version

Remaining at the top of the political agenda

We asked the former European Commissioner for the Environment, Janez Potočnik, how can the circular economy remain at the top of the political agenda.

Could circular economy help businesses face the worst recession ever?

During the Covid-19 pandemic, circular economy helped hospitals face supplies shortage. Can it help businesses face the worst recession ever?

Reverse logistics, the circular economy weakest link

Reverse logistics is sometimes described as the logistics going in the “wrong direction”. Yet it plays an important role to transitioning to a circular economy.

Waste watchers

For factories, applying circular economy strategies could create cost-saving opportunities and profitable new revenue streams.

Toward factories with no assets

Today, many factories are using energy service companies to improve their energy efficiency.
Tomorrow, they will very likely buy pay-per-use services to improve their resource efficiency.

Waste + Information = Resource

To maintain the value of materials and products in the economy for as long as possible, the circular economy needs to have access not only to waste but also to information regarding said waste.

The machines that predict the future

Thanks to predictive maintenance, products can forecast failures before they occur.

Circular molecules

The circular economy and digitalisation will be the two most important trends employed by Germany’s chemical industry as it moves towards 2030.

Making products last

Thanks to remanufacturing, refurbishing and repair, products are not just consumables anymore, they become assets, our assets.

Chemical leasing

Chemical Leasing is a performance-based (service-oriented) business model that shifts the focus from increasing sales volume of chemicals towards a value-added approach.

Circular procurement

To improve material efficiency, purchasing departments could leverage circular economy.

Creating jobs, saving resources

For decades, companies have improved labour productivity to reduce their costs. But, they should rather focus on resource productivity, and create jobs.

Reducing hospitals cost

Unlike many other sectors, hospitals have not yet fully optimised their production resources. But that can change.

Fixing broken supply chains

By implementing circular economy strategies, businesses could build more resilient supply chains

Ending e-waste

Waste electrical and electronic equipment is currently considered to be one of the fastest growing waste streams in the European union, growing at 3-5 % per year. That needs to change.

Circular economy, strategy for a sustainable world

Our book, in French, is a practical guide for companies willing to transition towards a circular economy. Read an extract here.

Pay-per-use chemicals

A growing number of chemical companies offer to sell not their chemicals, but the service those chemicals provide.

Circular business model

Manufacturers must adopt circular business models to reduce costs, decrease CO2 emissions, and secure critical materials supply.