Will circular economy work ?

[fiulpro]

The circular economy is definitely going to work. It's not only sustainable but at the same time it's less pricey as well. But the whole idea 💡 is quite strange to some people and therefore they don't usually use it on a practical basis.

Well we did learn a couple of things in the Environmental class when we were kids :
Recycle
Reuse
Reduce
The three R's

But these things applies to a narrow range of products and it's essential to teach the general public and the people as well, the importance of them which would not only be beneficial for them but for the environment as well since we are right now at the borderline and we have to change the way we live or else the whole environment would be destroyed beyond repair.

[wiss19]

It is quite a good idea as it is going to be helping to reduce the rate of waste products in our environments. I have seen some people already saying that it wouldn’t be a good idea in some cases, for example: refurbishing of products such as smart phone reduces their quality.

Well, in this case I think if a refurbished phone is refurbished by the same company that owns that product it would still be as good as new, take for example, an Apple iPhone that’s refurbished by Apple itself would be as good as new or at least close to that, than when it is refurbished by just some random company that’s not owned by Apple itself. So this circular economy really makes sense, and if it can be applied properly, it would be good.

[beerlover]

When people see these kinds of things, they believe that it has to be done right now and it has to be done 100% and that should be the end of it. What people do not realize is that we could provide a lot more profit to people who recycle and repair and refurbish etc etc, and as people we could see stuff that are not brand new as still okay, then we will be doing fine.

We do not have to change it all, we could simply just do something like a bit more laws that support it, just paying more to people who recycle, paying more to people who pick up trash and put them in right places, all in all just promote this kind of behavior while also allowing brand new stuff as well, keep the world as it is on this part. Basically what I am trying to say is that, this could be an "option" and not forced and it would still be a lot better, it's proven that it would help the world for sure.

[pinggoki]

It definitely is possible and would work if everyone from the production up to the executive sector of things are responsible and willing enough to put in the extra effort of implementing such policies. I have seen structures and models that suppose circular economy would work but all of it included utter cooperation from each of the sector and would have little to no room for slacking off. Unfortunately this also means higher product cost but I would personally be willing to pay extra if such processes result into us securing a safer future for our children.

Well, I think we're already somewhat using that kind of system around the mord, if I recall, Japan has their sinks near the toilets so they're able to recycle the water from the sinks to be used for flushing their toilets which saves them billions of money a year for water treatment, and water consumption. It's difficult to do recycling at every level of a product, some stops at the first level and then it's a total waste.

These are just micro circular economies but nonetheless show that it will definitely work if everyone within the system of production and consumption cooperated. Japan is blessed enough to have traditions based on discipline and honor which made it easier for such policies other countries would think of as strict to be implemented with little to no issue or outcry from the public. Total Recycling is also an issue because only a very small percentage of our wastes gets recycled so unless we do something about that, it wouldn't work for the rest of the planet

[palle11]

It cannot be sustainably maintained in ever industry, but it surely can work in many others and can be a good way of reducing waste while reducing the cost if production as the previous waste products would simply be recycled for use again.

It can also help the lower class members of the society as many people own products which could be useful to others, but have no way of reaching out to them, a functional circular economy can connect that bridge and make it much easier.

I think there will be a chain of redistribution of what you don't want anymore for what the immediate need is, more as to say trade by barter. I know there are companies that deal on raw materials and that is just what they do. They employ workers and contract mini companies for their waste and they redistribute the waste to another company who are in need of it. Is a chain and I believe almost every waste is useful for something else. A by product for something will turn out a material for manufacturing other products.

[Ucy]

When people see these kinds of things, they believe that it has to be done right now and it has to be done 100% and that should be the end of it. What people do not realize is that we could provide a lot more profit to people who recycle and repair and refurbish etc etc, and as people we could see stuff that are not brand new as still okay, then we will be doing fine.

We do not have to change it all, we could simply just do something like a bit more laws that support it, just paying more to people who recycle, paying more to people who pick up trash and put them in right places, all in all just promote this kind of behavior while also allowing brand new stuff as well, keep the world as it is on this part. Basically what I am trying to say is that, this could be an "option" and not forced and it would still be a lot better, it's proven that it would help the world for sure.

In regards to paying people to pick up trash, I think you could do that in a way that does not encourage them to throw away trash in order to recieve more payments. I won't be surprised if those you pay to pick trash, secretly trash a clean place in order to get more payments. Maybe they should be rewarded more (not necessarily with money) if they are able to maintain the cleanliness or prevent people from littering the streets at all.

If everywhere remains clean and there is no job for them, they could litter the place themselves to continue to recieve rewards.
I'm not sure who deliberately and massively trash a place that was paid for to be cleaned. Sometimes I suspect it's those you paid to clean it up because one of them always comes by to ask that he gets the place cleaned up again. Or it could just be neighbors who are too stingy to pay for trash pickers, or just sadists

They should basically be paid sufficiently if they deserve to paid or if everything is done right.

[beerlover]

In regards to paying people to pick up trash, I think you could do that in a way that does not encourage them to throw away trash in order to recieve more payments. I won't be surprised if those you pay to pick trash, secretly trash a clean place in order to get more payments. Maybe they should be rewarded more (not necessarily with money) if they are able to maintain the cleanliness or prevent people from littering the streets at all.

If everywhere remains clean and there is no job for them, they could litter the place themselves to continue to recieve rewards.
I'm not sure who deliberately and massively trash a place that was paid for to be cleaned. Sometimes I suspect it's those you paid to clean it up because one of them always comes by to ask that he gets the place cleaned up again. Or it could just be neighbors who are too stingy to pay for trash pickers, or just sadists

They should basically be paid sufficiently if they deserve to paid or if everything is done right.

Nowhere will be perfectly clean at all times, there are trash building constantly in the world at all times. Think of bottles that are used every day, we all drink stuff, not like if you clean all the garbage and all the bottles and cans then suddenly there is no more trash, we will keep on drinking stuff and there will be more bottles to clean, and that is literally just cans and bottles.

Think of all the plastic as well, do you think if you clean every single plastic trash right now, there won't be any new ones tomorrow? This is why there is no reason to trash places and get paid for it, plus the payment doesn't really worth trashing the places, it is only good if it is used and then trashed and then recovered. So all in all you could pay people to pick fast food trash, canned goods trash, bottles, can of soda and so forth all those type of stuff will be more and more everyday, so they could pick up that trash everyday and they will never have zero trash left.

[jrrsparkles]

It will work if government is serious about its implementation but if the products are being used again and again then company will not make profits so this will results into revenue loss for the government so they are not going to implement it completely. Already we are recycling lot of products but just for the sake of doing it not to save the environment as well as consumer satisfaction.

[kryptqnick]

Will circular economy work ?

The circular economy is a model of production and consumption, which involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible. In this way, the life cycle of products is extended.

In practice, it implies reducing waste to a minimum....
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/economy/20151201STO05603/circular-economy-definition-importance-and-benefits

It better work, as it's probably our only hope. It also seems like the right thing to do because reusing and minimizing waste is definitely better than blind consumerism. Of course, not everything can be reused, and there are areas where it can be a health risk (reusable syringes are a health risk, reusable condoms are a bad idea, many medical things require single-use plastic for proper sterile conditions), but where possible, we should stick to reusing stuff and opting for long-lasting quality over cheaper but short-lasting products. People love the idea of recycling, but lately it's been discussed that this should be one of our last resorts because recycling is often difficult, and it shouldn't encourage people to use tons of 'recyclable' single-use stuff.
Speaking of cryptos, I think it's important to for miners to switch more and more to cleaner sources of energy and stop using coal if they can.

[CryptocurencyKing]

I'm biased on this because if the wastage is to be lessened, then it's good but it will work or not will completely depend upon the quality of the products that are being shared or sold ahead. If the quality of refurbished products isn't good, just the way I mostly see bad reviews of people buying expensive smartphones whose costs are cut down due to them being sold as refurbished products but still people are not satisfied, then this economy will turn out to be a huge failure.

All said in just one instance. You know, as much as the rest of the world would always have a strong stand point and supportive behaviour with having products recycled, the resulting outcome must be of good quality too. On a scale of 1-10, it should be at least a 9 to a certain for it being good otherwise, it would be the same garbage all along and we might result to producing just the same waste we hope to avoid. What the is the point of recycling if it is bad? It doesn't doesn't much sense.

If consumers support right to repair trends, they may need to do a better job being informed and voting with their wallets. Or negative trends could easily become normalized due to lack of resistance.

I am in agreement with this as, lack of resistance and alternatives is what creates monopoly and a monopolistic market isn't good for anyone. It puts consumers in a state where the will is hindered and the manufacturers exercise a direct control on what goes and don't which always doesn't help so much.

[Mometaskers]

It should work and it's better for the society in overall. Imagine: Instead of paying high price in new, you buy old in cheap price and make a new one out of it. Imagine if you could upgrade old PC components via recycling them instead of buying new ones every time, this is the case here. It's not only good for the nature but it can be cost effective for the business, it can meet the high demand and increase the supply.
We will adopt the circular economy. As time goes, the things change and this is the new thing that will come up in near future I guess it's becoming popular in Western Europe?

Not sure about using the recycling part, it'll go through many process and I don't think you'd be able to get 100% of the material back for your PC. I think something more like getting a discount is more possible. For example in my country there used to be "trade-in" for phones where you give the store your old phone when buying a new one and you get a discount.

I believe they'd base this on how much they'd earn selling the old phone to the recyclers but not sure since never availed of it. I don't think shops here do this now since several times I've had to buy a phone, no one gave me the offer. So all my old phones are in boxes. 

[watergold]

It should work and it's better for the society in overall. Imagine: Instead of paying high price in new, you buy old in cheap price and make a new one out of it. Imagine if you could upgrade old PC components via recycling them instead of buying new ones every time, this is the case here. It's not only good for the nature but it can be cost effective for the business, it can meet the high demand and increase the supply.
We will adopt the circular economy. As time goes, the things change and this is the new thing that will come up in near future I guess it's becoming popular in Western Europe?

on the other hand, it would be very good to see that civilization currently uses a lot of waste items which ultimately cannot be decomposed by nature which makes the world less good to live in because of various pollutions and wastes that exist in some places.
but on the other hand this will also be one of the difficult things, especially in recycling because we know goods that have been used automatically their durability and function will decrease and this is something that must be thought about properly what can be used and make the economy This circular is liked by many people.

[RondoAnyar]

when talking about TA, I think this is something that is only used as an aid, not a reference, because apart from that, all TA is just various formulas that are applied to convince us to speculate, as for the reality it can be right and it can be wrong.
I think you are quite good at doing something because by analyzing something based on the observations you see, but indeed the reality is that it is back again, speculation is 50-50 about this, it is the market that decides.

[RealMalatesta]

It better work, as it's probably our only hope. It also seems like the right thing to do because reusing and minimizing waste is definitely better than blind consumerism. Of course, not everything can be reused, and there are areas where it can be a health risk (reusable syringes are a health risk, reusable condoms are a bad idea, many medical things require single-use plastic for proper sterile conditions), but where possible, we should stick to reusing stuff and opting for long-lasting quality over cheaper but short-lasting products. People love the idea of recycling, but lately it's been discussed that this should be one of our last resorts because recycling is often difficult, and it shouldn't encourage people to use tons of 'recyclable' single-use stuff.
Speaking of cryptos, I think it's important to for miners to switch more and more to cleaner sources of energy and stop using coal if they can.

Consumerism and cycle is not really connected to each other. You could be doing blind consumerism and also pay a certain people to gather the dirt and then ... well ship it to space I suppose, I really do not know what is the healthy way to dispose of them or reuse them.

We had that in our nation for YEARS now, and it has been working amazingly, we pay peanuts, like literally less than one cent for each bottle you collect, BUT when people make it their business, they collect TONS and that turns out to be a great profit for them. Sure it is not clean business, sure you garbage dive to find those stuff, and yes we still have some garbage left, but at least stuff like plastic gets collected and we are cleaner than most nations.

We still allow factories to use their chimneys to destroy the world, so we are not great at every green thing, but the collection of bottles seems to be a thing we managed to do along with consumerism together.

[Reid]

They call it better nowadays which is "reconditioning". Or that is how it's only called in my area.
I don't like it because I became a victim of an item that was refurbished or reconditioned that didn't last long.
That is the problem with products that was recycled, you didn't know when it was bought or how much usage it experienced.
Let's say a graphics card that was mostly overclocked and the owner wants to re-sell it with just a clean and brand new physical look.
You on the other hand as a buyer would not know that history and will think it is a steal for the cheap price.
Problems will occur in the next month or 5-10 more.

[Victorycoin]

In a circular economy resources are used in a cyclical manner this means that from now on mining will not continue or waste will not be generated. Emphasis will be placed on recycling and that will be made possible by producing products that can be easily removed we will no longer own any products in the circular economy a consumer will not pay for any lighting device.

[Silberman]

Will circular economy work ?

The circular economy is a model of production and consumption, which involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible. In this way, the life cycle of products is extended.

In practice, it implies reducing waste to a minimum....
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/economy/20151201STO05603/circular-economy-definition-importance-and-benefits

This is the kind of economy that we had for thousands of years so I think it could work, all of this consumerism for consumerism's sake is relatively new if we are talking in historic terms, and even in the current culture there are many people that are like that and extract all what they can from the products and services they acquire, and personally I see it with good eyes as the resources we have are limited and at some point we will have to accept that possibly and be more responsible with our consumption.

[tulusikhlas]

It will work depending on how the product a country produces in large quantities from plastic and the things that can be recycled back and become an item that has marketability.
Usually these products have many sources of treatment equipment from factory waste and are collected again. However, some countries still export waste to various countries with the aim of taking it back after the waste material has been processed.

The circular economy method has succeeded in reducing littered waste. This kind of processing is quite effective.

[TheGreatPython]

The circular economy is a model of production and consumption, which involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible. In this way, the life cycle of products is extended.

You agree or not, we are going to have complete circular economy in near future because all the resources we are using right now might be diminishing in its supply hence we need to adapt renewable energy resources so that we could sustain among increasing demands in our daily life. I believe there should be more innovations are needed to make use of our wastes effectively so that we could sustain against demands. If everything could be recycled then we can easily get into circular economically but as of now we are having less technology for recycling and for green and renewable energy. So, we must need to wait for a while before getting into a complete circular economy.

[darewaller]

Will circular economy work ?

The circular economy is a model of production and consumption, which involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible. In this way, the life cycle of products is extended.

Depends on the product really. If you get a couch that was used for 20 years, then get it refurbished and resell it, then it is not going to be as good as the old one, this much is known. However, if you get bottles and recycle them and create new bottles out of them then you are going to be fine.

So, circular economy can work on certain items and will be a failure on some other items. There is really nothing that will have a short cut for you. If you would like the world to turn into full on cycle then we are going to have a lot of business going down because they can't create new stuff that people will buy, and we will have a lot of second hand stuff that is used like new and break down very easily.