I wanted to write up a simple walk-through of the Circular Economy, without all of the jargon and sound bites that often come with it. I’m aware the very term ‘Circular Economy’ is likely to go over many heads but I truly believe it’s the solution to many of the global sustainability challenges we’re facing and by the looks of things, so do many world leaders and CEOs. We’re learning more about its potential each and every day and like any new economic system, it could fall back into insignificance. However, I just don’t think it will! I’ve studied the CE for a while now, in a critical way and the downfalls are mainly suggestive of a system in its toddler stage, rather than a lack of potential.
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Being a Small Business owner is about 20 jobs in one. When you can’t afford to employ new talent to focus on particular jobs, you have to be directly involved with almost every decision. There are so many boxes to tick and jobs to do.
Read moreBring Back the Milkman: Could Corona Virus give us the nudge we need towards a Circular Economy?
20 years ago, you’d walk down the street and see shop signs decorated with names of local people as opposed to corporations. ‘Heseltine’s Butchers’ rather than ‘Tesco Express’; ‘Daisy’s Tea Rooms’ over ‘Starbucks’. It was a time when community meant more. Local people shopped at local stores and supported them because they were convenient……
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