The Circular Economy Is Great For Real Estate’s Bottom Line, Oh, And The Planet

May Al-Karooni just couldn’t get her head around it.

The office of the investment bank at which she worked was being refurbished, and she asked the facilities management team what was happening to everything that was being ripped out: the fixtures, fittings and furniture. Basically, she was told, the vast majority was being thrown away. It was just the easiest thing to do.