Many academics are discussing the circular economy benefits right now. Nevertheless, I couldn't find any facts proving that recycling pollutes less than making new things. Could you present me any researches, dedicated to this issue, please?

Oleksandra, I am not one of those academics. Going from economic linearity to circularity does not erase the fact documented by the WCED 1987 that traditional market thinkis is and has been socially and environmentally unfriendly; hence, trying to sell/promote the cause of the environmental problem as the solution is mind bugling to me. We need to think outside the box or go as the WCED 1987 say beyond business as usual to find ways to solve these critical problems.

Have you ever seen any of the following publications Oleksandra?, they have some good food for thoughts

Thinking beyond business as usual ARTICLES available in Researchgate and Academia EDU

Muñoz, Lucio, 2020. Sustainability thoughts 101: What was wrong with the structure of Adam Smith’s traditional market model? What are the main implications of this?. Boletin CEBEM-REDESMA, Año 14, No.2, February, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2020. Sustainability thoughts 109: Linking perfect green market theory to the circular green economy, In: CEBEM-REDESMA Boletin, Año 14 Nº 7, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2020. Sustainability thoughts 107: Comparing the structure of the circular green economy with that of the circular environmental externality management based economy to identify differences as well as to point out the market implications of these differences, Boletin CEBEM-REDESMA, Año 14, No.6, November, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2021. Sustainability thoughts 110: Linking perfect red market theory to the circular red economy, In: CEBEM-REDESMA Boletin, Año 15 Nº 1, January, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2021. Sustainability thoughts 111: Linking perfect sustainability market theory to the circular sustainability based economy, In: CEBEM-REDESMA Boletin, Año 15 Nº 2, February, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2000. " An Overview of Some of the Policy Implications of the Eco-Economic Development Market", In: Environmental Management and Health, Prof. Walter Leal Filho/PhD(ed), Vol. 11, No. 2, Pp. 157-174, MCB University Press.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2003. Linking Sustainable Development Indicators by Means of Present/Absent Sustainability Theory and Indices: The Case of Agenda 21, GDS, IIG, Spain

Muñoz, Lucio, 2009. Beyond Traditional Sustainable Development: Sustainability Theory and Sustainability Indices Under Ideal Present-Absent Qualitative Comparative Conditions, En: Mineria Sustentable, REDESMA, Vol.3(1), March, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2023. Sustainability thought 177: What are environmental pollution production markets, environmental pollution reduction markets, environmental pollution management markets and no environmental pollution production markets? How do they work?, In: CEBEM-REDESMA Boletin, Año 17, Nº 4, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2023. Sustainability thought 176: Plotting the perfect market shifts and dwarf market shifts solutions to distorted traditional market pricing mechanisms in the same plane to point out the nature of remaining sustainability gaps under paradigm shift avoidance processes, In: International Journal of Latest Engineering and Management Research (IJLEMR), ISSN: 2455-4847, www.ijlemr.com, Volume 08, Issue 03, March, Pp. 39-50, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2023. Sustainability thought 179: Can we transition from the environmentally dirty economy to the environmental clean economy with the use of green markets? If Yes, why?, In: International Journal of Education Humanities and Social Science(IJEHSS), April-May 2023, Volume 6, Issue 02, Pp. 115-131, ISSN: 2582-0745, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2023. Sustainability thought 162: Can we transition from the environmentally dirty economy to the environmental clean economy with the use of dwarf green markets? If no, why not?, In: CEBEM-REDESMA Boletin, Año 17, Nº 2, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2023. Sustainability thought 175: Contrasting the working of perfect market and of dwarf market solutions to distorted traditional market pricing mechanisms to point out the nature of sustainability black holes created under paradigm shift avoidance processes, In: CEBEM-REDESMA Boletin, Año 17, Nº 1, La Paz, Bolivia

Muñoz, Lucio, 2023. Sustainability thought 174: Using the sustainability market price to derive the three imperfect market ways to manage the consequences of distorted traditional market pricing mechanisms under externality cost management, In: International Journal of Latest Engineering and Management Research (IJLEMR), Vol. 8, Issue 1, January, Pp. 01-13, ISSN: 2455-4847, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2022. Sustainability thought 173: Using the sustainability market price to derive the three perfect market ways to correct distorted traditional market pricing mechanisms under externality cost internalization, In: CEBEM-REDESMA Boletin, Año 16, Nº 11, November, La Paz, Bolivia

Muñoz, Lucio, 2022. Sustainability thoughts 143: Pointing out the different roads towards sustainability markets when placing the traditional market model of Adam Smith under the Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm transformation loop analytically and graphically, In: CEBEM-REDESMA Boletin, Año 16, Nº 10, October, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2022. Sustainability thoughts 140: How can the consequences of the 2012 green market paradigm shift avoidance move that led to the world of dwarf green markets of today be highlighted, including the green Marxism threat?, In: International Journal of Latest Research in Engineering and Technology(IJLRET), Vol. 8, Issue 10, Pp. 05-17, October, ISSN: 2454-5031, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2022. Sustainability thoughts 139: How can the 2012 road to transition from environmental pollution based traditional economies to the environmentally clean economies that the world never built be pointed out?, In: International Journal of Education Humanities and Social Science(IJEHSS), Vol. 5, No. 05, Pp. 65-77, ISSN: 2582-0745, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2022. Sustainability thought 171: How to state the structure of the Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm evolution loop for the traditional market of Adam Smith when shifting to sustainability markets, to red markets, and to green markets under academic integrity?, In: CEBEM-REDESMA Boletin, Año 16, Nº 8, August, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2022. Sustainability thought 170: What happens to the Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm evolution loop under willful academic blindness? What are the implications of this?, In: International Journal of Education Humanities and Social Science(IJEHSS), Vol. 5, No. 04, Pp. 251-260, ISSN: 2582-0745, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2021. Sustainability thoughts 128: How can the thinking behind sustainability based market expansions and traditional market based economic expansions be contrasted using pareto optimality thinking? How are these expansions linked to sustainability gap dynamics?, In: International Journal of Education Humanities and Social Science(IJEHSS), March – April 2021, Volume 4, Issue 2, Pp. 37-57, ISSN: 2582-0745, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2021. Sustainability thoughts 126: Are environmental externality management based production and consumption bundles inconsistent with green pareto efficiency and with pareto efficiency principles at the same time? If yes, why?, In: CEBEM-REDESMA Boletin, Año 15 Nº 2, February, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2021. Sustainability thoughts 127: Pareto optimality under the sustainability eye: Is the traditional pareto efficient bundle the second most undesirable bundle on the pareto optimality sustainability line? If yes, why?, In: International Journal of Management studies and Social Science Research(IJMSSSR), Vol. 3, Issue 1, January-February, Pp 180-196, ISSN: 2582-0265, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2021. If Going From Free Markets to Free Markets Is the Science Based Approach: What is Then the Model Structure, Price Structure, Choice Structure and the Knowledge Structure and Related Gaps of the 2012 Paradigm Shift From Perfect Traditional Market to Perfect Green Market Thinking?, In: Insights into Economics and Management ,Vol. 5, Chapter 1, Pp 1-17, Book Publisher International, January 21, ISBN: 978-93-90516-50-6 (Print), ISBN: 978-93-90516-51-3(eBook), London, UK.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2021. Sustainability thoughts 130: Can green economies and green growth exist without green markets? If not, why not? What is the current main development implication of this?, In: International Journal of Management studies and Social Science Research(IJMSSSR), vol.-3, issue-1, January-February, Pp 50-65, ISSN: 2582 - 0265, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2020. Sustainability thoughts 106: Can we solve an environmental sustainability problem by managing the consequences of that problem? If not, why not?, Boletin CEBEM-REDESMA, Año 14, No.5, May, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2020. Sustainability thoughts 104: How the shift from traditional markets to red markets would have looked like had the 1987 Brundtland Commission recommended then a social sustainability fix?, In: International Journal of Management studies and Social Science Research(IJMSSSR), Vol. 2, Issue 2, March-April, Pp 127-137, ISSN: 2582-0265, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2020. Sustainability thoughts 103: How the shift from traditional markets to green markets would have looked like had the 1987 Brundtland Commission recommended then an environmental sustainability fix?, Boletin CEBEM-REDESMA, Año 14, No.3, March, La Paz, Bolivia.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2020. Sustainability thoughts 102: How the shift from traditional markets to sustainability markets would have looked like had the 1987 Brundtland Commission recommended then a sustainability fix?, In: International Journal of Business Management and Economic Review, Pp. 110-120, Vol. 3, No. 02, ISSN: 2581-4664.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2019. The Flipping of Traditional Economic Thinking: Contrasting the Working of Dwarf Green Market Thinking with that of Green Market Thinking to Highlight Main Differences and Implications, In: Global Journal of Management and Business Research: E Marketing, Volume 19, Issue 4, Version 1.0 , Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2017. Is Environmental Externality Management a Correction of Adam Smith’s Model to Make it Environmentally Friendly and Shift it Towards Green Markets or is it a Distortion on Top of Another Distortion?. International Journal of Economics, Business and Management Studies, 4(1): 1-16.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2016. Beyond Traditional Market Thinking: What is the Structure of the Perfect Green market?, In: International Journal of Science Social Studies Humanities and Management (IJSSSHM), Vol. 2, No. 5., May, Ed. Dr. Maya Pant, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2019. From Traditional Markets to Green Markets: A Look at Markets Under Perfect Green Market Competition, Weber Economics & Finance (ISSN:2449-1662), Vol. 7 (1) 2019, Article ID wef_253, 1147-1156

Muñoz, Lucio, 2016. Beyond Both Red Socialism Thinking and Traditional Market Thinking: What Is the Structure of the Perfect Red Market. In: International Journal of Advanced Engineering and Management Research(IJAEMR), Vol.1, Issue 5, Pp 546--568, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2019. From Traditional Markets to Red Markets: A Look at Markets Under Perfect Socially Friendly Market Competition, In: International Journal of Management Studies and Social Science Research(IJMSSSR), Volume 1, Issue 2, March-April, Ed. Dr.Vishal Muvel, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2016. Beyond Green Market Thinking: What would be the Structure of the Perfect Sustainability Market?, In: International Journal of Science Social Studies Humanities and Management (IJSSSHM), Vol. 2, No. 5, May, Ed. Dr. Maya Pant, India.

Muñoz, Lucio, 2019. From Traditional Markets to Sustainability Markets: A Look at Markets Under Perfect Sustainability Market Competition, In: International Journal of Management Studies and Social Science Research(IJMSSSR), Volume 1, Issue 1, January-February, Ed. Dr.Vishal Muvel, India.

Indonesia : https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2023-07/ins-en_stakeholder_mapping_ce.pdf

and in answer to Oleksandra Butko :

Circularity is not only about recycling. It includes development of the reuse economy https://zerowastelivinglab.enviu.org/blogs/the-indonesian-zero-waste-market-a-promising-niche-market-with-the-potential-to-accelerate/

However, reused things can't be considered a perfect solution as all things haven't got unlimited time to use them. Every reusing as well as recycling worsens the thing quality. Therefore, we should look for the other way round.

https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/

Lucio Muñoz That foundation may be of interest to you.

https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/topics/circular-economy-introduction/overview

it is mostly used in Europe but not limited there. China has also been proactive in that regard and to an extent some African countries have started following suite. which therefore means gradually it is becoming a world phenomenon.

Petrus, yes I have seen some articles based on China, some african countries, and some latin american countries, but only in researchgate so far.

Since 1987 WCED report we have been trying to solve the social and/environmental sustainability problems associated with business as usual, then linear or with circularity by externality neutrality assumptions, if the commission would have thought that going circular was the solution to those social and/or environmental sustainability problems they would have recommended ECONOMIC CIRCULARITY, instead they reccommended SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT to leave traditional market thinking behind once and for all....

Linear markets and circular markets, both have pricing mechanism that only account for the economic cost at profit, and hence, they externalize other costs, which the WCED 1987 documented as socially and/or environmentally unfriendly thinking.

Petrus, think about, can the solution to a sustainability problem(eg the environmental pollution problem) created by a linear root-cause be to make the root-cause circular? You may be able to see that we still have a pollution production problem as both the linear market and the circular market are both pollution production markets as both are based on distorted market prices(socially and/or environmentally),

Thank Petrus, for commenting

Respectfully yours

Lucio

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