A Brief History of the Circular Economy: Definition, Examples + Different Interpretations

If you’re a professional or a student focusing on the environmental sector, you must have heard of the circular economy and its potential to reduce the environmental pressure of cities and economies.

In brief the circular economy proposes to reuse waste or output flows as new resources.

Since 2012-2015 it has taken the policy world by storm. Each major policy and action plan at a city, country or international level is now mentioning circular economy.

However, how did we get here and where did this concept originate from?

In this video I want to share a brief history of circular economy and provide you with some more nuance of what CE can mean once implemented. As you will see there as divergent point of views when it comes to its definition and different end goals are in mind.

What do you think ? What should the Circular Economy's end goal should be ?

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:19 What is Circular Economy? A definition
03:40 Points everybody agrees on about the Circular Economy
07:20 A brief history of the Circular Economy (in policies)
12:40 Points of disagreement about the Circular Economy
17:37 Example of Circular Economy policies in Cities
19:40 What is the role of a Circular Economy ?



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