The new role of waste as a second raw material for an evolution of the concept of circular economy and as a source of income for innovative companies?
It is a resource and a source of income for innovative companies as long as consumers are educated in the proper disposal of used products for recycling. The companies also have to develop a creative collection process for the used products that includes incentives for customers. Thanks.
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Preprint A circular economy in 2040. What impact on occupational safe...
Presentation Workers in a circular economy in 2040, a foresight study (Dresden)
Now that waste pervades our lives, societies and their economies must—ever faster—draw from concepts of industrial ecology to set up closed-loop systems of energy and material flow (and of course make every effort to reduce consumption beforehand). Linear (and ultimately destructive) approaches to taking, making, using, disposing, and polluting must give way to circular economy approaches that recycle, make, use, reuse, and remake in virtuous cycles to promote more sustainable growth from within and so increase prosperity whilst reducing dependence on primary materials and energy.
PS: Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, the twelfth of the Sustainable Development Goals that world leaders adopted in September 2015 at a historic summit of the United Nations, recognizes that achieving economic growth and sustainable development requires that we should urgently reduce our ecological footprint by changing the way we produce and consume goods and resources. Relevant facts and figures are that: 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted every year, just as almost 2 billion people go hungry or undernourished; the food sector accounts for around 22% of total greenhouse gas emissions, largely from the conversion of forests into farmland; and that, globally, 2 billion people are overweight or obese.
Innovative companies can do LOT in this matter. For example, looking into direction of AI to help to boost circularity and re-cycling and to use newest digitalization enabled technologies to turn waste to raw materials and re-purposing to profitable business models:
Conference Paper New Promises AI Brings into Circular Economy Accelerated Pro...
Conference Paper Key Enablers for Deploying Artificial Intelligence for Circu...
Conference Paper Digitalization Boosted Recycling: Gamification as an Inspira...
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