ABSTRACT
In recent years, the concept of a ‘Circular Economy’ (CE) has gained traction as a new model of sustainable economic development. Notwithstanding the proliferation of private sector initiatives and the accelerated push for appropriate policy interventions at different levels, what constitutes definitive CE policies remains in question. This is in part because a number of different philosophies of environmental thinking, such as industrial ecology, waste management, resource and energy efficiency and eco-design have been around for many decades and shaped what we now understand as the CE.
