The Ellen MacArthur Foundation believes that the circular economy provides a coherent framework for systems level re-design and as such offers us an opportunity to harness innovation and creativity to enable a positive, restorative economy.
Here you will find a series of articles to help familiarise yourself with the circular economy model, its principles, related schools of thought, and an overview of circular economy news from around the world.
The linear ‘take, make, dispose’ model relies on large quantities of easily accessible resources and energy, and as such is increasingly unfit for the reality in which it operates. Working towards efficiency—a reduction of resources and fossil ene…
The circular economy concept has deep-rooted origins and cannot be traced back to one single date or author. Its practical applications to modern economic systems and industrial processes, however, have gained momentum since the late 1970s lead by…
A circular economy seeks to rebuild capital, whether this is financial, manufactured, human, social or natural. This ensures enhanced flows of goods and services. The system diagram illustrates the continuous flow of technical and biological mater…
If the “closed loop” model is easy to understand from a theoretical standpoint, implementing it seems quite daunting – yet it has seduced major companies and elements of the philosophy have been adapted in the architectural and t…
Bradford University has announced that from July, it will offer the ‘world’s first’ circular economy Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) degree.
The European Commission Online Resource Efficiency Platform: “Circular Economy 100 Programme launched to form innovative global business alliance”
The BBC’s Roger Harrabin asks ‘Should we be owning our washing machines?’
Janez Potočnik: “the potential of moving towards a truly circular economy – where materials are used again and again instead of going on a one-way trip – is truly phenomenal”
The first macroeconomic report series into the size of the prize for business in the transition to a circular economy
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