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What is circularity
Circularity means using a resource more efficiently by keeping the material in use for as long as possible. Once we have maximized its use, we then recover it to make new products.
Circularity is simple. It considers every stage in the product’s journey and is designed to build in sustainable changes.
There are multiple steps that can accelerate the drive toward circularity, such as:
- Choosing materials with a lighter environmental footprint (such as lightweight, efficient plastics).
- Rethinking how products are made, designed and used.
- Designing products to be reused and/or recycled.
- Capturing materials at the end of their useful life to keep them out of our environment.
- And using conventional and advanced recycling to remake these materials into new materials to be used again and again… reducing and displacing the need to extract limited natural resources.
Circularity is the Future
It’s not a passing fad. Designing products to be circular is the innovative, sustainable way of making things that leads to a cleaner, safer, healthier future.