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Our prosperity is in peril unless we shift from a wasteful world to a 'circular economy'

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The prosperity that we are enjoying today could largely be attributed to the industrial revolution of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Yet this enhancement of our standard of living has come at a steep price: the creation of the so-called linear economy.

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