One common feature of all the major manifestos to date (even the Tory one) is a call for a Circular Economy but I don't think any of them go far enough (not even the Greens!)

I'm still not convinced that politicians quite get how fundamentally different a truly Circular Economy is from a "Linear Economy but with more recycling".

See this thread for @Common_Weal outline of what it needs to mean for all of our goods. https://twitter.com/Common_Weal/status/1328285210522361859

And I do mean all of them. It's about single-use plastic bags and coffee cups but it's also about everything else in your house....and the house itself.

Pick an object within arm's reach of you. Look at the materials its made of. Work out how it currently fits into the cycles detailed in the thread above.

Work out how it would need to change to fit more completely into it.

If you can't, I'm not too surprised. That's how big a job we have in front of us.

If you can...consider a career in Circular Product Design - it's going to have to be a massive growth sector very soon.

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