
Is slowing down the circular economy the right thing to do?
Nov 14, 2020
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According to Paula Tejón Carbajal from Greenpeace, there is a need to slow-down the Circular Economy and to [1]:
- Go beyond recycling as the main concept of the Circular Economy
- To focus on designing products/services for Circularity from the outset, and
- Most importantly to slow down consumption and to reject unnecessary products:
- Reducing the consumption of production and materials, resources, and energy altogether.
- Reversing the waste hierarchy and putting ‘Refusal of unnecessary products’ at the top.
- Rolling out mindful ecological designs, balanced value creation across the supply chain, and enabling recovery, repair, reuse etc.
Our perspective
[1] Slowing the Circular Economy. Paula Tejón Carbajal. Issued 17. July 2020. Greenpeace.com. Graphic courtesy of Stig’s Illustration and Design. Learn more here