CIRCULAR BUSINESS MODELS

Trash is piling up and it’s not going away. It can take 450 years for some types of plastic to break down. One type of plastic, PET, while recyclable, doesn’t biodegrade at all. Meanwhile, most business and industries still think in terms of a linear economy, where resources are transformed into products, sold, and then thrown away. In a circular economy, waste is sustainably recycled and becomes an input for the next phase.