January 2021

Source: Resources Conservation and Recycling

Authors: Melanie Jaeger-Erben; Charlotte Louise Jensen; Florian Hofmann; Jakob Zwiers

Summary

The paper is a short reflection piece, published in the academic journal Resource Conservation and Recycling. The paper discusses recent critical reflections on the Circular Economy debate, highlighting the missing concern for social sustainability and social transformation and acknowleding that CE is being critiqed for being conceptualized as an ecological modernization project that builds on capitalist economic growth narratives. The paper explore alternatives for the circular economy, rooted in the emerging concepts of Circular Society.