The Challenges of Circular Economy - comic - Business Illustrator
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The Challenges of Circular Economy - comic - Business Illustrator
(An interesting side note of the current situation is that startups like Blueland can’t just radically scale up supply overnight to capitalize on the unexpected demand: Beyond production constraints, air freight costs have increased 6x, Yoo says.)
Dan Frommer • What happens to sustainability and ‘clean’ consumption after all this?
without a market demand, those recyclables are almost useless; placing them in the recycling bin won’t make a difference if you can’t make money off of them. If the demand isn’t there, or the quality of the materials post-use is incurably dirty, they end up in landfill or incinerators.
National Geographic • 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic (and Recycling)
steady-state economy will have to face issues of fairness and justice in distribution that were more easily addressed (or postponed to the future) in a high-EROI, supposedly infinite-growth economy.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
