Circular Economy
Take-Make-Dispose
The linear economy's operating model — extract, produce, discard — whose replacement defines the circular economy.
Definition
Take-make-dispose is the shorthand for the linear economic model: extract raw materials, manufacture products, use them briefly, and discard them as waste. It assumes infinite sources and infinite sinks — assumptions that fail on a finite planet — and generates the resource depletion, pollution and waste that circular economy models are designed to eliminate by keeping materials in use at their highest value.
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