Unmaking waste in production and consumption: towards the circular economy
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2018
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Crocker, R.
Saint, C.
Chen, G.
Tong, Y.
Saint, C.
Chen, G.
Tong, Y.
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The legacies of a century of fossil-fuel based development and overconsumption, of treating the environment as a waste sink for industry and agriculture, have left devastating impacts on the earth’s air, water and land, and these are directly implicated in Climate Change. In response, a number of global institutions and nations, including the European Union and China, have committed themselves to the development of a ‘circular economy’. This will require a transformation of today’s ‘linear economy’ of ‘make, use and dispose’ as the market currently dictates, into a Circular Economy.
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Copyright 2018 Emerald Publishing