SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS
ACCELERATING CIRCULARITY WITH DELOITTE AND ECOLAB
When it comes to embedding and accelerating circularity, it is definitely a team game.
When McLaren Racing recognised the need for expert help, it turned to one of the globe’ s largest consultancies, Deloitte.
The two businesses have been working together since 2020, as David Rakowski, partner and circularity lead, Deloitte UK, explains:“ Currently Deloitte is helping McLaren to embed circularity, the concept of eliminating waste and maximising resources through reuse and recycling, into McLaren’ s sustainability mission.
“ We have drawn on our experience of helping clients around the world to model, pilot and scale the circular economy, including our work in developing the Global Circularity Protocol for Business, to create this first important step on the journey- the handbook.”
The circularity handbook has been put together for all F1 teams, guiding their journey to circularity and giving a common approach to its measurement.
David adds:“ The challenge of implementing circularity can sometimes be daunting – you need to transform your product, supply chain, business model and digital ecosystem. But once you put the organisation infrastructure in place to do this, it is very feasible.
“ I think bold organisations like McLaren, which are at the forefront of this journey, have a real opportunity to show that it is possible – and prove it is less complex if there’ s a genuine commitment to change.”
McLaren also works with Ecolab, to demonstrate how sustainability and performance do not have to conflict with each other and actually go hand in hand.
The pair are also collaborating to decarbonise McLaren’ s business travel.
48 June 2025