From Keep Asia Beautiful

1. What is the
Circular
Economy?

2. Currently we live in
a linear economy
Take
Make
Dispose

3. Take:
Extract Resources

4. Make:
Manufacture into Products

5. Dispose:
The End Cycle…or is it?

6. The
Circular Economy
changes
everything

7. By 2050 their will be 3 billion
more people on the planet all
with their own dreams for a
better life

10. How does the
Circular Economy
make a
sustainable future?

13. In 2015, the U.S. scrap metals
recycling industry was worth
$106 billion and employed
149,000 people
Source: Institute of Scrap Metals Recycling Industries, Inc., Fact Sheet 2016

16. Waste plastics can be
reprocessed into a range
of different products…

17. …and this is just a small selection
of items that can be made from
recycled plastics
Bottom images from Replas Pty Ltd

19. Malaysian NGO:
Epic Homes can build houses
from recycled Tetra Pak cartons

24. How is the
Circular Economy
sustainable?

25. Sustainability is
defined as…

26. For the Circular Economy to be
sustainable, it must make…

27. …yet plenty of opportunity for
creativity and innovation

28. like Mud Jeans

29. How do we
begin?

30. In Asia
we are
rethinking
waste collection

31. What if we could change this…

32. To something like this?
This pilot program under

33. This pilot program under

34. To build
volumes of
recyclable waste
for reprocessing,
so that…

35. … the factories of the future will
be part of the Circular Economy

36. with supply chain efficiency
making it economically viable…

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40. The
Circular Economy
in the
Asia Pacific Region
www.keepasiabeautiful.org