ABSTRACT
In 2012, the United Nations published data stating that humans consumed between 45–60 billion tonnes of mined and harvested raw materials in 2010. Fast forward to the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2021 where The Circular Gap Report 2020 was presented. It confirmed, among other things, that 2020 was the first time ever that the global economy had consumed over 100 billion tonnes of raw materials, described as “minerals, fossil fuels, metal and bio-mass.” It also noted that the world’s economy was only 8.6% circular, down from 9.1% in 2018, the year this annual report was first launched.
