THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY - 10 innovative business solutions and how to go further

Our global economy has long relied on a ‘linear’ economic model – natural resources are extracted and used in making products and when those products are of no further use, they are disposed of. This model is based on the assumption that there are large or unlimited supplies of cheap, easily accessible raw materials and energy sources. The reality is that most resources are finite. Rapid economic and demographic growth around the globe determined that an alternative economic model was needed to reduce waste, reuse precious and limited resources

Source: American Chamber of Commerce to the EU