Circular Economy and the Policy Landscape in the UK
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This chapter sets out the European policy origins of ‘circular economy’ thinking in the UK and discusses the extent to which the waste prevention plans written by the four countries of the UK (to fulfill the EU requirement) start to move the UK in the direction of more circular approaches. This is important for an understanding of what has driven UK action on this agenda. I argue that the ‘circular economy’ has become an increasingly vigorous topic of debate in the UK. This has been manifested mainly through interest and use of the language by leading companies, but more recently also through political interest in Scotland and Wales, resulting in diverging policies in the countries of the UK. Heightened political interest in some parts of the UK has coincided with uncertainty about activity in the European Commission. The chapter discusses some of the difficulties in turning the concept into policy prescriptions.
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Many governments-such as Sweden, Austria, and Germany-have already banned wood waste landfilling, while many others have discouraged landfilling through taxation.
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Section 2 discusses European efforts to limit landfill and proposed EU landfill bans from 2025, but does not say that Sweden, Austria, or Germany had already banned landfilling wood waste. Section 5 discusses possible taxes on primary resources or non-recyclable products, not governments using landfill taxes to discourage wood-waste disposal. Searches for wood-waste landfill bans and landfill taxation found no passage establishing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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- Hill, J. (2014, October). The circular economy: From waste to resource stewardship, part I. Proceedings of the ICE -Waste and Resource Management , 168 (1), 3-13.
- RSA. (2013). The great recovery -Investigating the role of design in the circular economy (Vol. 1). London: Royal Society of Arts.
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- Authors
- Hill, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Surrey (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Hill, Julie
- Venue
- Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2016
- Pages
- 265-274
- OpenAlex
- W2295623985
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- 23
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- 3.69
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- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering › Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
- Keywords
- circular economy, British policy, EU waste policy, policy transfer, Scotland, Wales, political economy of sustainability, European Commission, policy divergence
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