An Introductionby Ellen MarArthur, competition sailor turned eco-economics campaigner & educator The Circular Economy Concept - Article
Efforts at all three levels include development of resource recovery and cleaner production enterprises and public facilities to support realization of the CE concept. This adds a strong economic development dimension through investment in new ventures and job creation. So the CE opens opportunities for both domestic and foreign enterprises. A logical extension of the third regional level of action would be integrating management of flows among urban, suburban, and rural resource recovery systems. An example would be bio-refineries utilizing discarded biomass from rural and urban sources. Such refineries would operate with a range of technologies for converting these resources into bio-energy, bio-fuel, and bio-materials. From the paper "China seeks to develop a "Circular Economy" (CE) Plugging the Leaky Bucketof globalized local economies a great animation at the beginning of this lecture by Rob Hopkins on Transition Town Totnes & it's all about creating new economies ... |