Circularity Gap Report 2022: only 8.6% of the global economy is circular

Image credit: David Watkis via Unsplash. Article by Giorgia Marino. Renewable Matter – January 21, 2022.

Five hundred billion tons. That’s the amount of resources consumed globally over the past six years, between COP21 in Paris in 2015 and COP26 in Glasgow. The sum was calculated by the think-tank Circle Economy that, like it does every January since 2018, presented the new Circularity Gap Report.

The document, which captures the development of the circular economy in the world, does not bring good news: still more than 90% of the resources extracted and consumed do not return to the production cycles, but become waste. Today, only 8.6% of the world economy is circular. And it’s not getting any better. […]

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