{"id":121260,"date":"2023-01-23T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=121260"},"modified":"2023-01-18T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T09:49:32","slug":"global-circular-economy-going-backwards-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/global-circular-economy-going-backwards-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Global circular economy going backwards says report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>The Circularity Gap Report 2023 assessed the global economy as being only 7.2% circular, down from 8.2% in 2020, which it blamed on the increased extraction of virgin materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Fraser, head of research and development at Circle Economy said: \u201cThere is huge potential to increase the global economy\u2019s use of secondary materials,\u201d saying the report \u201cdemonstrates how reliant the global economy is on new, virgin materials.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/01\/image-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-121262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/01\/image-5.jpeg 780w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/01\/image-5-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/01\/image-5-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/01\/image-5-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2023\/01\/image-5-400x266.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The report argues the world cannot achieve sustainability by recycling alone, urging the adoption of four key circularity principals: \u201cUse less, use longer, use again and make clean\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A circular economy, the report continues, could fulfil people\u2019s needs with just 70% of the materials currently used and within the safe limits of the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEssentially, this study finds that adopting a circular economy could not only reverse the overshoot of planetary boundaries, but it could slash the global need for material extraction by about one-third,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the first edition of the Circularity Gap Report in 2018, the global economy has extracted and used more virgin materials than in the whole 20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century, said this year\u2019s report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Circle Economy said that measures to be taken should include making \u201cconstruction and demolition waste history\u201d, minimising the need for virgin materials and avoiding \u2018fast fashion\u2019, with all used clothing reused or recycled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also called on firms to extend the lifetime of their machinery, equipment and goods. Acknowledging that comparing annual figures can be difficult, Circle Economy said it could \u201cassert that circularity goes down as the general rate of global material extraction rises\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To achieve well-being within safe limits would require collaboration between the public and private sectors, it said, including mandatory extended producer responsibility schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said that high-income \u2013 \u2018shift\u2019 \u2013 countries need to focus on reducing their overconsumption, middle-income \u2013 \u2018grow\u2019 \u2013 countries need to optimise consumption to maximise social wellbeing, though it says that low-income \u2013 \u2018build\u2019 \u2013 countries, which use less than a tenth of what \u2018shift\u2019 countries do, should focus on wellbeing even if it increases their consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Circularity Gap Report 2023 assessed the global economy as being only 7.2% circular, down from 8.2% in 2020, which it blamed on the increased extraction of virgin materials. 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