Looping
The circular economy is about closing loops, but there are two kinds of loops - and we shouldn’t mix them up. I recently bought the world’s first 100% compostable phone case from Pela. It comes from nature and harmlessly goes back to nature. That’s loop-type 1. But my wife received a pair of Adidas Parley trainers for her birthday, made from 100% waste (including ocean) plastic. It doesn’t come from nature and can’t go back to nature. But it turns waste back into a product and is also recyclable. That’s loop-type 2. We need both, separately: bio-loops and techno-loops.
— Wayne Visser
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