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The Circular Economy: How Waste Management Companies Are Driving Circular Thinking

What is the circular economy?

  • The linear economy is the take-make-waste pattern that we have traditionally followed. In this approach, we extract resources from the environment, which are then turned into products. These products are used for a period of time until they are then discarded – often while they still have some value. This is a one-way process that turns natural resources into waste products at an ever-faster rate. As such, it is inherently unsustainable.
  • The circular economy, by contrast, finds ways to take the end-point of this process – the waste product – and convert it back into something that has value through reuse, recycling and other approaches. This not only limits the amount of waste we generate, but also reduces the rate at which we are depleting the planet’s finite resources.

Why is the circular economy important?

The circular economy in waste management

Biffa
enva
Cireco Scotland

How PIN is supporting the circular economy transition

"PIN has a key part to play in our circular business model. The very exciting endgame of the PIN system is having an ultimate view of container profitability."

Andrew baker
Andrew BakerCIO, The NWH Group

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