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Business leaders and governments both acknowledge that continued wealth generation requires a new industrial model less dependent on primary energy and materials inputs.

Towards the Circular Economy vol.3: accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains, is a collaboration between the World Economic Forum, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and McKinsey & Company. The report aims to reconcile the goal of scaling a circular model with the reality of a global economy and complex multi-tier supply chains. It finds that over USD 1 trillion a year could be generated by 2025 for the global economy - and 100,000 new jobs created for the next five years if companies focused on encouraging the build-up of circular supply chains to increase the rate of recycling, reusereuseThe repeated use of a product or component for its intended purpose without significant modification., and remanufactureremanufactureRe-engineer products and components to as-new condition with the same, or improved, level of performance as a newly manufactured one..

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Towards the circular economy Vol. 3: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains is available in: English

To quote this study, please use the following reference: Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Towards the circular economy Vol. 3: accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains (2014).

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