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How the circular economy could end take-make-waste businesses

Published on December 4, 2015

Under the mainstream radar, businesses are innovating a new industrial paradigm: the closed loop (PDF) company.

The impetus? Our industrial economy is approaching a tipping point where the old “take-make-waste” business model will dead-end.

A growing and urbanizing global population and resource scarcity already are forcing some businesses to rethink their products based on the assumption of infinite and cheap material inputs.

Read the article at GreenBiz.com.

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