“Imagine a world without garbage, wherein what we used to refer to as waste is the most important resource”
Jørgensen & Pedersen
(2018, p. 157)
“First, based on key literature, we define the Circular Economy as a regenerative system in which resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimised by slowing, closing, and narrowing material and energy loops.”
Geissdoerfer et al.
(2017)
“The goods of today are the resources of tomorrow at the resource price of yesterday. ”
Walter Stahel
(Cited in Freed & Ritchie, 2021, p. 263)
“In CE, waste is used as a
resource in other parts of the value chain by shifting the focus to closing material loops through different types and levels of recovery,
represented by the 4Rs (reduction, repairing, remanufacturing and
recycling).”
Barreiro‐Gen & Lozano
(2020, p. 3492)
“Circular Economy is a concept, based on the principle of decoupling value creation from resource consumption.”
Kravchenko et al.
(2020, p. 5)
“The circular economy continues to attract attention as a primary solution to keep social-ecological systems within limits favourable for humankind.”
Kennedy, & Linnenluecke
(2022, p. 2762).
“The circular economy provides solutions for systemic
inefficiencies.”
Circle
Economy
Foundation
(2023, p. 21)
“The ’circular economy’ is an industrial system that is restorative by intention and design.”
Wijkman & Skånberg
(2015, p. 5)
Referencer
Barreiro‐Gen, M. and Lozano, R. (2020). How circular is the circular economy? Analysing the implementation of circular economy in organisations. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(8). doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2590.
Circle Economy (2023) Circularity Gap Report Denmark.
Freed, E.C. and Ritchie, K. (2021) Circular Economy For Dummies. 1st edn. Indianapolis: John Wiley and Sons.
Geissdoerfer, M., Savaget, P., Bocken, N.M.P. and Hultink, E.J. (2017). The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm? Journal of Cleaner Production, 143(143), pp.757–768. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.048.
Jørgensen, S. and Pedersen, L.J.T. (2018) RESTART sustainable business model innovation. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave studies in sustainable business in association with Future Earth).
Kennedy, S., & Linnenluecke, M. K. (2022). Circular economy and resilience: A research agenda. Business Strategy and the Environment, 31(6), 2754–2765. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3004
Kravchenko, M., Jensen, T. H., Pigosso, D. C. A., & McAloone, T. C. (2020). Circular Economy Sustainability Screening: CIRCit Workbook 1. Technical University of Denmark.
Wijkman, A. and Skånberg, K., 2015. The circular economy and benefits for society. Club of Rome.