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The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model

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  • Stylianos Zavos
  • Olli Pyyhtinen

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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.

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  • Stylianos Zavos & Olli Pyyhtinen, 2024. "The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 17(3), pages 683-697.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:17:y:2024:i:3:p:683-697.
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