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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
