How Circular is the Circular Economy? [electronic resource].

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How Circular is the Circular Economy? [electronic resource].

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Low-Tech Magazine 2024

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The circular economy – the newest magical word in the sustainable development vocabulary – promises economic growth without environmental destruction or waste. However, growth makes a circular economy impossible, even if we recycle all raw materials and all recycling is 100% efficient. No technology can change that because it’s not a technological problem. In addition, many modern products are too complex to recycle. In this series of articles, LOW←TECH MAGAZINE explores how the circularity of various technologies like bicycles, solar panels, and wind turbines evolves. Placing the recycling of resources in a historical context makes clear that we are not moving toward a circular economy but rather increasingly away from it.
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Economics
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Natural Resources

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Kris De Decker
Kathy Vanhout
Lauren Traugott-Campbell
Marie Verdeil
Johanna Gratzer
Laia Comellas

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