01. What is a circular economy?

The circular economy is about keeping materials and resources in use and retaining their value, rather than consuming and disposing of them. To achieve this, products are designed to have longer lives, to be reused, remanufactured or reassembled instead of discarded. Or products have to be made from biological materials without any toxic chemicals so that they can be recycled or returned to the biosphere. Waste should be redefined as ...

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