(GUF) CIRCULAR GUIDANCE NOTES

Introducing the Circular Guidance Note (CGN) Series

Waste guidance often arrives as dense policy, technical jargon or worthy slogans that tell people what they should do, but rarely explain why it matters in practice.

The Circular Guidance Note (CGN) Series is my attempt to do something simpler. Each CGN takes one practical issue — from reusable pallets, to purchasing decisions, to soft plastics — and strips it back to common sense.

• Not theory
• Not greenwash
• Just practical circular thinking

The idea behind the series is straightforward: Waste does not begin at the bin.

It often begins much earlier; in design, procurement, packaging choices and behaviours that quietly create costs and environmental impacts downstream. The first three Circular Guidance Notes reflect that progression:

CGN 01 – Wooden Pallets Are Reusable Packaging, Not Someone Else’s Waste

A reminder that reusable assets abandoned on site are not “free waste disposal,” but a cost shifted elsewhere in the supply chain.

CGN 02 – If You Bring It In – We Have To Deal With It

A challenge to think about waste before it exists, and recognise that purchasing choices shape disposal costs.

CGN 03 – Soft Plastics: The Next Wave

A look ahead at one of the most problematic and important materials in the circular economy transition.

Together they share one simple principle: The bin does not make something recyclable. Buying choices do. These notes are designed to be practical, visual and shareable — for workplaces, campuses, laboratories, public estates or anywhere waste and procurement collide. More like this (biomass) - link - more like this (recycling) - link - more like this (soft plastics) - link

More will follow.

• Less wishcycling.
• More thinking.
• Welcome to the Circular Guidance Note Series.

Coming Soon — Free CGN Downloads

Guff House is building a free download library of Circular Guidance Notes (CGNs) — practical, printable guidance sheets designed to turn circular economy theory into common sense.

From pallets and plastic films to procurement, recycling and greenwash-busting, each CGN is designed to be used, shared and adapted.

• No consultancy jargon.
• No mystical sustainability waffle.
• Just guidance that works.

Free PDF library launching soon.