Credit: CIRCULAR ECONOMY, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY PRESS
THE IMAGE ABOVE SHOWS A COMPARISON BETWEEN LINEAR AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY MODELS. AS THE NAME SUGGESTS, THE RESOURCE GOES THROUGH A TAKE-MAKE-CONSUME-DISPOSE SEQUENCE LINEARLY TO FINALLY PRODUCE A LARGER AMOUNT OF WASTE MATERIAL IN A LINEAR ECONOMY. ON THE OTHER HAND, IN CIRCULAR ECONOMY, THE RESOURCE CYCLES THROUGH THE PRODUCTION LOOP WITH LESSER WASTE AS WELL AS SOME USEFUL BIPRODUCTS, WHICH IS WELL IN TUNE WITH THE ASPIRATIONS OF MANY SDGS