Juana Catalina Rodriguez

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Circular Disruption

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When I was a kid, my mother used to take me to the market if second-hand objects.

It was an adventure for me, as I loved exploring the mountains of treasures.

We would find toys, broken furniture, and many objects still in good condition.

My parents would tell me that we had to recycle these things so that they wouldn’t end up in the landfill.

Now that I’m an adult, I realize that my parents were teaching me about the circular economy principles. Now teaching my son how to reuse, recycle, repair, renovate and recover.

The circular economy is a system where waste and resources are reused instead of being sent to the landfill or incinerated.

The circular economy is an alternative to the traditional linear economy.

We take resources from the earth, use them to make products, and then dispose of those products when we’re done with them.