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Is recycling the answer?

        Wales has made huge progress                           (plastics being a prime example)

        from the Linear Economy example                        deteriorate in quality each time

        in the diagram, where it was                           they are recycled, eventually
        common to take a resource, make                        ending up as waste.

        it into an item, use it, and then

        discard it as waste. As a nation,                      A Circular Economy strives to
        we are now one of the world                            further reduce the production of

        leading examples of a Recycling                        waste or eliminate it altogether.

        Economy, increasing from around                        Achieving this requires us to
        5% municipal waste being recycled  consider new ways to manage

        in the late 1990s, to 65.5% in                         items that we discard whilst also,

        December 2021.                                         crucially, to consider how goods

                                                               are produced in the first place:
        However, this is not a long-                           designing products that are made

        term answer to our quest to live                       for a circular world.

        sustainably. The recycling process
        isn’t perfect and many materials
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