| Title |
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model |
| ID_Doc |
1920 |
| Authors |
Zavos, S; Pyyhtinen, O |
| Title |
The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model |
| Year |
2024 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1093/cjres/rsae013 |
| Abstract |
In the article, we critically confront the idea of waste-to-resource at the heart of the circular economy. We discuss some of the blind spots and shortcomings of three circular economy principles: designing out waste, emulating natural systems and decoupling economic growth from resource use. We suggest that their limitations are intimately connected to a scalar reasoning ruled by strict, disjunctive categories. Instead, we advance a flat, relational, trans-scalar approach and propose that the potential of a sustained circular economy promise requires a novel scalar imagination attentive to its multiple co-constituted spatialities, social relations and fluid materials. |
| Author Keywords |
waste; resources; circular economy; scales; flat ontologies |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:001219009500001 |
| WoS Category |
Development Studies; Economics; Geography |
| Research Area |
Development Studies; Business & Economics; Geography |
| PDF |
https://academic.oup.com/cjres/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/cjres/rsae013/57465174/rsae013.pdf
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