Figures & data
Figure 1. Number of published articles and reviews including “circular economy” in title, abstract, or keywords. Source: the Scopus database, www.scopus.com (accessed Aug 21, 2017). *Publications to date.
Figure 2. (a) A linear economy. Efforts to reduce negative impact can in theory only reach a ‘zero negative’ limit as long as the system does not change to be regenerative by design. (b) A circular economy framework aims to design an economic system in which our activities have a net positive impact on our environment, health, economy, and society as a whole.
Figure 3. Material flows of the current, linear plastics economy.
Figure 4. The New Plastics Economy initiative has three core ambitions.
