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Gaining the Circular Advantage

In: Waste to Wealth

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  • Peter Lacy
  • Jakob Rutqvist

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Shifting to a circular model means changing our linear economy’s supply logic. We will need more renewable energy, more biomaterials and biochemicals that degrade safely, and more technical materials like metals that are designed to be easily recovered and recycled. Products need to be designed to use recovered secondary material and for low-cost end-of-life recycling, effectively closing the manufacturing loop. We need components designed for reuse and products that can be upgraded and refurbished rather than discarded and replaced. This is the critical supply-side of the circular economy.

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  • Peter Lacy & Jakob Rutqvist, 2015. "Gaining the Circular Advantage," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Waste to Wealth, chapter 0, pages 24-32, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-53070-7_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137530707_3
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