It is time to return to the traditional values of a circular economy. Our current linear approach is proving to be unsustainable—both environmentally and economically.

Understand and describe the Circular Economy as illustrated by the CE Butterfly Diagram. Explain why we need to shift from the current linear economy to a more circular one. Describe how the ...

With today's current production and consumption patterns and a growing global population, three Earth-sized planets will be needed by 2050. Shifting to a circular economy means less production of ...

Awareness of the need for us to transition to a circular economy from our current, linear one for the long-term livability of our planet has grown — but the practicalities of such a massive shift are ...

The transition to a circular economy will require coherent, harmonised long-term policies, alongside those that reduce the social and environmental impacts of primary extraction. Our recommendations ...

At a different set of events in São Paulo, Brazil, from May 13 to 16, the World Circular Economy Forum 2025, WCEF, welcomed more than 10,000 circularity frontrunners who focused on how the ...

Today, our global economy remains overwhelmingly linear: we extract, consume, and discard. As a result, we generate more than two billion tonnes of waste annually, a figure projected to rise to 3. ...

It is time to return to the traditional values of a circular economy. Our current linear approach is proving to be unsustainable—both environmentally and economically.