While industrial development has led to a more comfortable life for human civilization by providing us with unimaginable resources in an agrarian society, it has also brought us an enormous environmental burden in the form of depletion of non-renewable resources and pollution.
Never before in the long history of humanity, we had technology at our disposal that would allow us to collaborate so closely with each other as we do today. On the other hand, the human race has never been in a situation where such close collaboration was as necessary as it is in today’s...
The idea of circular economy as a flow of materials and energy is far from new. We can trace its origin as far back as 1966 when English-American economist Kenneth E. Boulding first explained the benefits of a cyclical production system. However, it wasn’t until the 1990s that the term circular...
