An Industry Running Without a Ledger The circular economy has a data problem hiding behind what looks like a materials problem. Despite growing investment and awareness, the global circularity rate has fallen from 9.1% to 6.9% in just five years. That is a startling number. Billions of dollars in sustainability commitments, and the world is becoming less circular, not more. Global supply chains can provide near-perfect visibility from raw material to point of sale. But when the product reaches the consumer’s hands, the data disappears. This leads to one of the largest information voids in the global economy: consumer disposal. The AI circular economy movement exists precisely to close this…