Circular Economy

Do you know? 7-10 billion tonnes of urban waste produced each year and 3 billion people worldwide lacking access to controlled waste disposal facilities. Fuelled by population growth, urbanization and rising consumption, the volumes of waste are likely to even double in lower-income African and Asian cities by 2030.If the scenario continuously happen around us, it not only effect to the air quality which cause to the various respiratory diseases due to the air contamination, also the water pollution that could affect the all ecosystem, existing in the water, including fish and other animal that drink the polluted water. This mounting waste all over the world should be stop before it gettin worse and threatening human's health in the future.

One of the effective system to cope with the world's mounting waste problem is by implement the circular economy.The circular economy is a model of production and consumption, which involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible. In this way, the life cycle product is extended.

This is a departure from the traditional, linear economic model, which is based on a take-make-consume-throw away pattern. This model relies on large quantities of cheap, easily accessible materials and energy.

HOW ITS WORK?

Here simple illustration of the circular economy principles 

How the circular economy been applied ;

A circular travel solution.                        Cars are by far one of the most under-utilised resources in modern life. In Denmark, an average car transports 1.4 people on the road and spends about 23 hours per day taking up parking space. Empty car seats are the largest excess capacity in the transport industry, and this inefficiency has a negative impact on the environment and is expensive for car owners. GoMore’s platform offers a service that enables drivers to invite people for a ride on an already planned journey. This increases the number of people in cars and reduces the number of cars on the streets, making car trips more efficient and better for the environment

Recycling of artificial turf
As the first in the world, Re-Match uses patented state-of-the-art technology to separate worn-out artificial turf into raw, clean components, which can then be re-used or recycled in the turf industry or in other industries. Re-Match is able to separate every part of the worn-out synthetic turf into rubber granules, sand and plastic fibres. The technology is so effective that almost 100% of the components can be either reused or recycled. Each Re-Match facility can handle more than 40,000 tons of worn-out wet synthetic turf yearly, generating clean separated materials. 

Re-using old bricks to build a greener future

The driving force behind the founding of the company “Gamle Mursten” (“Old Bricks”) was the desire to prevent resources of natural bricks from being wasted. The old bricks are collected, cleaned with vibration technology, manually checked one by one and finally stacked by robots before being shipped to new sites. Saving more than 95% of the energy otherwise used to manufacture new bricks, this method of re-using old bricks is an example of perfect circular economy passing the resources of one generation on to a new one. By applying its method to two thousand bricks, “Gamle Mursten” also prevents the emission of one tonne of CO2.

Big companies leading the way to circular economy 

Enerkem

Canadian firm Enerkem has turned the trash to the substance that could run a car. Where the Carbon been extracted from trash that can't be recycled before turn to the gas that can be make biofuels. 

Schneider Electric

French-based Schneider Electric a company that specialises in energy management and automation recycled content and recyclable materials in its products, prolongs product lifespan through leasing and pay-per-use, and has introduced take-back schemes into its supply chain. 

Geocycle Malaysia 

provide solutions for 200,000 to 350,000 tons of wastes from agricultural, commercial and industrial sectors, ranging from biomass to water treatment plant sludge to production rejects and many more.