Re: what is the circular economy?
Posted: Fri 01 Aug 2014, 18:05:58
The Circular Economy meets The Access Economy
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What happens to resource efficiency, recycling and waste management in a world where disownership is becoming the new normal?
As much as it may seem that the nuts and bolts of resource and waste management is about sorting machinery, storage, bins and collection systems, it is really ultimately about people.
We know that if people are to use resources mindfully, to manage them well, and to both demand and correctly use appropriate end of life systems, then we need to design systems that they are easy and convenient to use.
There are two ‘muscles’ that can be flexed in relation to resource and waste management – the Circular Economy muscle, and the Access Economy muscle. A lot of muscle-building effort has gone into the former, and the latter is a muscle we’ve only just discovered we can build.
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