Building Revolutions

References

Introduction

1 Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Towards the Circular Economy: Economic and Business Rationale for an Accelerated Transition, Cowes, UK: Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2013.

2 OECD, ‘Materials Resources, Productivity and the Environment’, OECD Green Growth Studies, Paris: OECD Publishing, 2015, pp. 64, 84.

3 ‘For many metals, this means that about three times as much material needs to be moved for the same quantity of metal extraction as a century ago.’ ‘The tendency to process lower grades of ore to meet increasing demand is leading to a higher energy requirement per kilogram of metals, and consequentially to increased production costs,’ UNEP International Resource Panel, ‘Decoupling 2: Technologies, opportunities and policy ...